Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.5, 1/60 sec, ISO3200 “Cheesecake on the Floor” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！Good evening, how are you doing?
Well, the kids officially started summer vacation this week, and Koa has been spending a lot of time at the neighborhood pool having fun and getting very tan. In the above photo, you can see the summer attitude – eating dessert on the floor, still in swimming trunks, under the piano. What a life!😎
Thinking back to my childhood summers, I also spent quite a bit of time swimming at the pool. 🏊 My parents belonged to a tennis club 🎾 and my brother and I would amuse ourselves with swimming, playing racquetball, or playing the pinball machine at the snack bar. I have a wonderful memory of eating a delicious burger 🍔 on a wheat bun with alfalfa sprouts, then playing the “Supersonic” pinball machine. Good times!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.5, 1/50 sec, ISO6400 “Waterfall Position” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！Hello, how’s it going?
Tonight I spent a couple hours working on this blog, specifically the tagging of posts. I read a couple articles about different ways to tag, or rather, different philosophies and how to use categories and tags, but most seem to apply more towards commercial blogs, and not the traditional personal web log.
I’m not sure how I am going to organize the categories, since it seems like everything can go into just a few main groupings. That’s if I use the categories like a main site navigation. Which I am leaning towards doing, then using tags to group blog posts.
Ever since I started blogging daily, it has changed my way of thinking about this blog. How do I categorize those daily posts? At the moment, they are in a “Slice of Life” category… but this whole blog has turned into a “Slice of Life” vehicle… Occasionally I will have a movie, or product review, but these seem to be grouped in with the daily posts. However, some are stand-alone. This seems weird… I don’t like putting blog posts in multiple categories, but I kind of need to if I put different subjects into a daily post (which I like to do).
So… maybe the solution is in tagging. I’m thinking that may be the way to go… converting some of the categories into tags, and eventually the categories can just be down to one (which means I don’t need to call them categories). I will just have the blog posts, and then pages.
I guess that’s kind of back to an earlier, purer way of personal blogging, right?
It’s fun to think about! (I’m weird like that)
So, the blog work continues.
Today’s photo is of Anko, who, like many kittens, finds odd positions to sleep in. The one above is called “Waterfall Position” since it looks like she is headed down the falls! I used my normal Fujifilm black and white + yellow filter film simulation, then adjusted the tone curve, added grain, and slight vignette in Lightroom.
I hope you have a nice evening!
おやすみなさい！ – B
** UPDATE **
I’ve removed the categories from the menus and sidebars, and made the tags more prominent!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/7.1, 1/2700 sec, ISO200 “Blue Skies” Cedar Park, 2016
Summer traveling will be starting for many people. Safe journeys everyone!
I took this photo at the elementary school athletic field. My son, Koa, and I went there to throw the baseball and enjoy the outdoors. The clouds had been so interesting for the past few days so I was planning on getting a couple nice photos of them, and when this plane flew by, I snapped one of it between the clouds. I adjusted the exposure levels and color a bit in Lightroom, and also bumped up the clarity.
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/50 sec, ISO3200 “Autographs” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello! How was your Saturday?
Mine was pretty great! I actually had to work a bit this morning, and I went into the office which was nice because I got to enjoy coffee from our fancy machine (which my friend calls “barista in a box”) and concentrate in a quiet office. Then I picked up my kids from Japanese school, and we relaxed at home and watched the X-Games on tv.
What made the day really fun was that Mariko is working at the X-Games, helping out two Japanese skateboarders who are competing. And one of the skaters, Kisa Nakamura, won the gold medal in the Park event! She did amazing! The other skater, Aori Nishimura also did well competing in the Street event, placing 7th place. And what was really cool was that Mariko got both their autographs for my helmet. 😊 And an even cooler bonus was that she got Mimi Knoop’s autograph too! w00t!
So, today was a good day. I think Mariko really enjoyed the experience… she worked hard but I think it was very rewarding.
I hope you had a great day!
おやすみなさい！
– バロン
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