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Lotus flower
I’m guessing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園) is usually a little less than peaceful, with the throngs of tourists and school groups it attracts. However, the rain was coming down so hard at this point in my visit that everyone else had taken shelter, and I had the grounds to myself.
Surfing Carmel-by-the-Sea
Last December we headed south for our winter break. On our way back from Santa Barbara we watched the sun set in Carmel on an incredibly warm day-after-Christmas evening.
My 24-120mm f/4 Nikkor lens is a great travel lens, but on this evening I wished I had brought along something longer.
Airplane flying over lampposts (Jeju 제주, South Korea)
Planes were constantly buzzing overhead on the island of Jeju. However, whenever I was ready to take a photo of them up close there were none to be found. Later in the day I was up the road a bit so they weren’t as close, but the symmetry of these posts made this shot difficult to pass up.
Wladimir Balentien of the Yakult Swallows (NPB 2013 home run record)
Figuring out kanji used for baseball in Japan is a fun challenge. If you have a basic understanding of kanji you can literally read what Balentien (バレンティン) did on this evening before coming to bat for the fourth time. (遊ゴ = fun go, 四球 = four balls, 死球 = death ball) So what do these things really mean? 遊 is the shortstop (the funnest position?). goro (ゴロ) is grounder so he grounded out to short his first time up. Four balls is easy enough. He walked in his second at bat. But “death ball”? What could that possibly mean? He was hit by the pitch in his most recent at bat.
Inuyama Castle fireworks
Hilo, Hawaii has the best banyan trees