Posted on February 27th, 2018 under Japan. Tags: baseball, meiji jingu stadium, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, Tokyo, yakult swallows. Comments Off on Preseason has begun, opening day about a month away

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Posted on February 17th, 2018 under Other. Tags: moon, Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Telephoto Lens, Nikon D600, waterfalls, yosemite national park. Comments Off on Moonrise over Yosemite

Yamanashi Prefecture is famous for its grapes. While waiting for a bus to take me from the Shosenkyo Bus Stop back to central Kofu, I shot this nearby vineyard. In Japan, it isn’t uncommon to see grapes wrapped on the vine. I’ve never seen this in the USA or anywhere else.

Posted on February 14th, 2018 under Japan. Tags: kofu, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Japanese vineyard

Posted on January 31st, 2018 under Japan. Tags: blue hour, buildings, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, Tokyo, tokyo tower. Comments Off on Tokyo Towers

Japanese professional baseball “ema” in the Fukuoka Dome

You normally find ema at Shinto shrines in Japan. People write their prayers and wishes on them, hang them at the shrine, probably nobody reads them, and eventually they are burned. If they weren’t aesthetically pleasing (and a possible source of the placebo effect) they would be completely pointless.

Not so with these baseball ema which you can find at the home of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス). These are for fans to write notes to specific players. I suppose the players eventually get to read them. Kind of fun and very Japanese.

Posted on January 27th, 2018 under Japan. Tags: baseball, ema, fukuoka, Nikon D600, Sadaharu Oh Baseball Museum. Comments Off on Baseball ema (野球絵馬)