Tateshina : a refreshing spot

Lake Tateshina,on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, June 11th 2005. Its one of those lovely weekend getaway spots, opposite to the lake is an Indian Vegetarian Restaurant "Nataraj", probably the only veg restaurant I ever heard of todate in Japan.

Lunar ecstasy continues..

2005,SEPTEMBER,16th


2005,SEPTEMBER,18th


Guess 18th was a full moon day. Both the pictures are 100% crop, shot with

Camera : D70
Lens : 70-200mm F2.8 + TC 2x.


HBD : Blog-san.

17th ,September 2005 this blog incremented its count to 1.
Better late than never; belated birthday wishes.

Lunar ecstasy !!

Image as recorded on 9th September 2005, 17:26 hrs JST.

Its been a while I looked at the moon. Last time when I shot him with the 70-200mm VR lens, I felt the need of a 400mm, so finally I bought the 2x teleconvertor that I promised my self. As expected the teleconvertor softened the image considerably.

Sharpening and applying a slight S curve in Nikon Capture revealed some more detail as under.

Camera : D70
Lens : 70-200mm VR f2.8 + 2x Teleconvertor (ie @ 400mm)
Aperture : f5.6
Shutter : 1/125 Sec.

Ganesh Chaturthi 2005

For the past 2 years I was lucky to have a Ganesh Chaturthi day concur with a National Holiday or a weekend out in Japan. But this year it was a weekday and above all its a peak time at office. Virtually paralyzing me on many fronts.

Ganesh pooja 2005, Hirooka, Nagano-ken, Japan.

For the past 30 days I was working 15/6 week which I really hate to do so. Hopefully from this week onwards I will be back to my 8/5 week.

Hope you all had a great festival time and wish you all the best for the year ahead.

Cricket in Japan

Mr Stamina, Deepu with eyes on the ball.

I was never good at it, nor nostalgic about the Indian national obsession "Cricket", but I just loved watching the sport through my childhood and teens. Lack of physical activity and the mudane lifestyle , resulted in me prodding Sajithi to get the basic cricket kit on way back from India.

So finally from last weekend we started playing cricket. Its been around 5 years for most of them since they played some decent cricket, which resulted in some limping the whole of next week.

Sanjay playing Mahesh

Oshige-san and Imai Hiroki-san started joining us for every weekend. It will be a while for them to give up their baseball style of cricket. Over all its a healthy number who are turning up every weekend. Unlike in India were we can barge into any open field to play the sport, here we need to book the ground and ofcourse a token amount of 2000Yen per session.

Sanjay monkeying with the bat.

Info bits : Japan has a Cricket Associate, JCA recognised by the ICC., which comprises of players from all cricket playing nations.