Moon Rise

　　　This year's last one is Moon.
　　　I supporsed to take photos of Comet Lovejoy. When I opened the window, the moon just rose.

A Winery

　　　A winery for "Sake" as a Japanese wine made from rice.

A Fine Day

　　　Calm.

Thicker

　　　The Ice becomes thicker little by little.
　　　I supporsed to take photos of mos on the wall of this canal. It had been shining in the morning sunshines, but it turned to brown a little today. Because of the rain? cold? have to wait next winter?

It is rainy today.

　　　So cold. I'm in bad shape and have been to see a doctor. I've had some medicines. hope to be well.
　　　I couldn't take photos during the day time. I sometimes take photos of this church. It is photogenic in the lights of the afternoon.
　　　This church runs a kindergarden. It is kind of usual that churches, temples and shrines run kindergarden. Now it's quite quiet because of the winter vacation right before the end of the year.

Winter Fluffy

　　　Cloudy today. 'lil cold. Pampas grasses are still fluffy.
　　　Sun shines in the afternoon, but it's still cold.

Preparing for the New Year's Day

　　　This is a wall in a precincts of a shrine surrounding the main shrine. Over the wall, can look the emas (a picture tablet of a horse offered to one's guardian deity for the realization of one's wish: by "Dictionary" on Mac OS X) and main shrine.
　　　People will come to shrines and temples on New Year's Day to wish the new year to be a good year. At the Inside of the wall, some temporary stands to sell the lucky charms were just started to build.

Right Before Sunset

　　　Elmarit express the lights right before sunset softly.
　　　Before, this lens had a weird character that is having higher contrast for some particular colors, so the color balance and entire contrasts were hard to control on Photoshop.
　　　I don't know why, but now it looks a little bit mellow and gentle.

Old One

　　　Called "Nagra III" has a plate of "SONY".
　　　This is usd to use for recording sounds and time-code with a movie camera. A select switch for tape speed shows it runs in 4.75cm/s, 9.5cm/s and 38cm/s. Body looks the 7" reels are max to mount, but some people says "I've looked 10" reels were on."
　　　Circle, rounds, fun - that's the recording devices.

The Longest Shadows

　　　The winter solstice! Daytime will get longer little by little from today!!! Now I can imagine the summer time.

At a Parking Lot

　　　Can find a cat?

A Border

Christmas Will Come

A Canal

Sky High

By a River

Pampas Grasses

Stars

　　　So cold today.
　　　I set a camera for a meteor swarm in Gemini. The center of bright star is Jupiter.
　　　This is the first time to take stars by digital camera. Digital Camera can set higher speed easly, but the image sensor have heat in 20-30 seconds. Dose it mean is it impossibe to take photos stars draw the tracks look like circles? Today, the lens was f=44.8mm that is not wide enough, so the stars were short lines on the photo, not just dots.
　　　Also still needs film camera to enjoy the astronomical photography?

Milky Twilight

　　　In winter time, the color of the sky turn to a little bit white. It's the same in the evening. Can't find the names for the colors make gradations to the night time. Venus has started shining.

　　　I tried to make it more brighter , but it had tone-jumps a lot and some parts of the sky was light purple that was quite different from as be seen, so it's darker just a little bit now.

Blue Clear Sky

　　　Clear blue sky was making a contrast for the leaves. The sky looked colder than a few weeks ago. Also the leaves might be lost the color of yellow as the winter colors.

　　　Anyway, this bold color is "Zeiss!".

Contrast

　　　Feels strange for the contrast of this scenery. Just the smoke in the distance was shiny.

　　　It's kind of hard to handle this Biogon 2/35mm in the shadow lights. Sometimes I fell the images by this one covered with a quite thin gray veil.

Rainbow

Airplane Tracks

　　　I've never seen the airplane tracks like this in the morning. That orange tracks reminded me the sunrise from the airplane.

Akihabara

　　　"Radio Srore" - a mall of small stores that sell electrical parts had closed last month.

New School

　　　This is a school that is under construction. Many things in the town are re-newed in the same taste. Or, it may be able to say "no taste". After these ten - twenty years, many people will forget a word "old school".

One Ordinary Morning with some Clouds

　　　Fine, but a little bit hazy today. Not so cold, it's like yesterday that have would be around 50F.

Reflection, Sink into the water

　　　Trees were reflected in color of brown on the water that was reflecting blue sky. Some parts not reflecting, fallen leaves were seeing sky through the surface of the stream going slowly.

Winter Flowers

Brown Leaves

　　　They have turned to brown. These fallen leaves were yellow and orange having the morning dew for a few days ago. They looked very shiny over the car window. Now, not only fallen leaves, but also grasses are all turned to brown.
　　　It's frosted in this morning. It might be 3-4 times in this winter. After a few more frosted morning, many scenery may lost colors. Sun sets at 16:15 into the left shoulder of Mt. Fuji in Western Tokyo. A season that is hard to find taking photos will come...

Leaves in the afternoon

　　　Leaves again.
　　　This tree is at my work.

By a Watercourse

　　　A long straight path by a watercourse. In winter clear air, it reminds me the length of this watercourse. It's made in Edo-era for drinking water in very short period of time said 7 months or 18 months (depends on records) for 28 miles long. In some places, water soaked into the soil and rocks were hard to break, so the plan was changed and re-constructed several times. It's said the construction was so hard.

Warm sunlights, a cold winter sight

　　　They are turned to fluffy. Just a month ago, they were yellow flowers which just lookes like the same form. It sounded tuning to gray hair.

No water

　　　It had no water in watercourse. So much water was running in this watercourse in summer, so it looked wired today.
　　　I did not mind it's for an agricultural stream in summer, but now, the empty watercourse let me mind the function.
　　　A lot of leaves were in there in stead of so much water.

Side of the sidewalk

　　　Ginkgo leaves looks yellow, but they also look just a little bit red in yellow in this year. Many of other leaves also turned to bold orange and red. It may be because of warmer fall and barely cold in late November.
　　　A small cart in this picture might be a Ramen stand. There were some carts on this sidewalk. Someday I'd like to see and make sure them open at night.

Fallen leves

　　　Season is turning to the next step.
　　　Town is going to lost colors when the leaves are fallen. Also the sunshine looks in less colors shows all objects colder.
　　　The max elevation of the sun is just 32 degrees' high. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is on 16:29. That's the winter time.

After rain

　　　After a little storm, leaves were fallen a lot. Leaves on trees and the road looked in bold color because of they might be still wet.

A little storm

　　　It was a cloudy morning.
　　　It had been fine for nine days. And in this evening, it was a little storm. Strong wind and rain were fallen shortly - was a little surprise.

Maybe it's closed

　　　This is a Yakiniku restaurant that had been running in this town for so long. One Chinese restaurant near this place is closed on January of this year. These areas are under re-building. So, maybe this yakiniku restaurant is closed already.
　　　In the evening, sometimes good smell scented with around this, and stomachs of people walk through in front of this restaurant were making sound like when hungry, so it was a so noisy street. We missed it. :-p

Dropped

　　　Leaves leave trees and they dropped on the water. Small fishes were going through under the leaves.
　　　Not so cold today. Not frosted and not white breath. Because of not so cold? Leaves look like red enough compare to other winter. Also most ginkgo leaves are not be turned to yellow, but so many leaves colored yellow and orange are on the ground ans they are shiny in the sunshine. Both on trees and on the ground are still colored.

Autumn Grasses

　　　Japanese pampas grass still have fluffy stuffs. It was maybe in September, I started to aim at the chance to take photos of this grass. September? humm.. maybe. Since that, I could take photos of them today. Thanks for keeping they're still fluffy. humm.. I feel fluffy.

Surface

　　　Stopped by a small park and took time for a while maybe also for yesterday couldn't take photos in the daylights. On the surface of the flow, time was flowing gently.

One hour left

　　　Just a hour to the next day. Nothig to take photos till this time... Actually, there were "no time" to take. Clear sky, clear sun lights in the afternoon, trees, some flowers, fallen leaves... Oh, I missed them today.

Laundry

　　　Taking a walk near "Tokyo Midtown" in Roppongi.
　　　I was taking photos of trees in town and well designed buildings. Between the towns, some old smaller towns had turned up. Before land development around here, my eyes didn't catch this laundry. Unfortunatery, this older laundry looked like to be undressed some cloths. Some of interests for towns are how the town wear local washed vintage cloths.

A Day off

　　　Leaves again.
　　　A little bit... slightly... out of focus on this lens which is used for time to time.

Shadows

　　　During winter, sun lights make the shade of a tree in a room at my work. The patterns move slowly and it moves to right little by little. Turning off the lights, then it will turn my time on.

Soft lights

　　　Cold, but a 'lil warmer. The most of leaves turned to orange. Maples are still green and a little bit yellow and purple. Clouds were making rough lines, maybe because of higher (altitude) winds.
　　　Kind of quiet - just one moment in the early winter afternoon.

Leaves

　　　These colorful leaves reminds me a tree in the back-yard of a University's dormitory in Oregon.
　　　"America Maple" - it's the name for the tree in Japan. Leaves were in green, yellow, orange, red and purple. Looked like all the seasons were on just one tree.
　　　It might have been on October. Foggy night, cold and a little bit wet morning, clear straight daylights, red-brown wall of domes in campus - and the tree is a kind of symbolic stuff that has all the senses for the season in my mind.

Flow

　　　Breath turned to white in the morning as the first time in this winter. Also first frosted on the ground near my residence.
　　　Weather report said the temperature will be going up, but it was still cold in the afternoon. It sounds some people on the train might have gotten cold.
　　　Today I got a flu vaccine.

Snowy, frosted and 30 miles

　　　The first snow and frost in the Kanto plain in Japan. It was snowy about 28 inches in Aomori, Japan.
　　　This weather is almost the same as middle of December.
　　　In Kanto plain, air was so clear in this morning. Visiblity was about 30 miles.

So Cold

　　　It's so cold! Till just about yesterday, it's warmer like begining of October, but in this morning, it's so cold like on December. Winter starts at last.