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Mocean wrote in post #8106749
Greetings folks, been following and enjoying this thread for a while. Lots of great shots. Got my 50D last week so looking forward to posting some snaps soon (By the way Im another 外人 in Japan!)

@Evilfooker - awesome photo. Great job.

@les_au - not Lock 11 in Mildura is it!?

Excellent pics all round and a top idea for a thread.

yeap it is lock 11,

Haha small world. Spend many a weekend as a underager drinking beers there!

Skygod, Im in Tokyo.

I walked around Tiffin, OH earlier today to try out the 20D and Tamron 18-270 I just purchased. Here are a couple shots I took:

Blue Heron watching for an intruder (this was taken from really far away):

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A second blue heron appeared and the first blue heron chased the second:

Sorry this is a bit out of focus. I am still getting used to the camera and the lens.

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Mocean wrote in post #8109227
Haha small world. Spend many a weekend as a underager drinking beers there!

Skygod, Im in Tokyo.

Well, don't forget to leave the big city once in a while to see the "real" Japan....if it actually exists.

kisseer wrote in post #8110163
A second blue heron appeared and the first blue heron chased the second:
Sorry this is a bit out of focus. I am still getting used to the camera and the lens.

First try with the lens, you say? Well, no apologies needed! Plenty of birding togs on here will tell you that when the buggers aren't sat still in a tree, they're devilishly hard to photograph!!!

Just keep at it!

Mocean wrote in post #8109227
Haha small world. Spend many a weekend as a underager drinking beers there!

Skygod, Im in Tokyo.

Ahh..another gaijin in Japan!
Whereabouts in Tokyo are you?
I lived in Ogikubo for 5 years, and I sometimes miss Tokyo.
Down here is a little slower pace of life!!

bmhana wrote in post #8069376
...The first one is a little old woman hard at work on a Sunday afternoon....

Just to add to B's shot from a few days ago, here's yet another old granny digging away to plant her crop of rice this year. It was about 44°C in the direct sunlight (about 111°F) and 60% humidity. But I watched while she finished off planting her "patch". Funnily enough, her husband was also watching while she finished off....

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44℃ - crikey that's hot!
It's getting up there here, too, and I'm finding myself getting up at 5 or 6 am on my day off if I want to go outside for any length of time! Yesterday, when I went to the zoo, I was out of the house by 6:00 am.

RE: the above shot - great! I can't believe the husband was just watching her!
I bet she went home and cooked his dinner after that, too.

And here's another two from the same wander....freshly edited!

First is a famous samurai dude astride his thundering steed. All very "Last Samurai".....except Tom Cruise wouldn't have stood a chance against this dude.
As an aside, the samurai north of here were even warned by their leaders, "NEVER let a Satsuma samurai have ONE strike at you.....as you'll be dead before the second comes". The locals were trained in the art of a lethal withdrawal of the blade and killing stroke in one movement. Seriously scary!!! Thankfully, they're much more like Kitty-chan these days!

Second shot made me laugh. The old lady - bottom left - is scattering seed by hand....underneath an enormous motorway ("freeway") bridge. Old-meets-new.

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bmhana wrote in post #8111539
44℃ - crikey that's hot!
It's getting up there here, too, and I'm finding myself getting up at 5 or 6 am on my day off if I want to go outside for any length of time! Yesterday, when I went to the zoo, I was out of the house by 6:00 am.

RE: the above shot - great! I can't believe the husband was just watching her!
I bet she went home and cooked his dinner after that, too.

Hot is what it is!!! But that's in sun. It was "mere" 34 in the shade

Oh and as to Mr.Old Lady....he did seem to have some serious hip-trouble if I'm honest. I just hope if I ever get that bad, I can be put out of my misery painlessly!!! Or have some "bionic legs" implanted....
I just couldn't cope if I couldn't get out taking pics without two walking sticks and a ton of painkillers.

Alright, we'll let him off then

Love the samurai - scary bugger!
I'm glad they managed to finish building the motorway - the countryside around here is full of huge pillars, but with no road on top. Just loads of pillars marching through the fields because they ran out of money and couldn't build the top!!

@kisseer i own the same lens on a lesser body. it's a learning curve but it does a pretty good job for what it is

@mocean the P.S melbourne gave it a way just a wee bit, i'll see what happens this weekend, might take a shot of the new marina that has been built here. be an interesting shot just on dawn. although we are starting to get frosts here so climbing out of bed is getting hard, saturday in particular

bmhana - Im in Edogawa on the edge of Tokyo. Spent 6 blissful years prior to this living by the beach in Shonan and loving life. Now in Tokyo.....well there is a lot to see here I guess!

les_au - Havent spent much time in Mildura since I left after HS but it is a very senic little spot. Looking forward to spending some time there later this year.

I have a huge amount of history within a mile of my home, but for now I'll just show something which for most people will be unusual and interesting-but for me it is a part of daily life, a summer evening here in Portsmouth is incomplete without the hourly drone of the Hovercraft heading off on another sprint over the water to Ryde, although this image was shot in the depths of winter!

Matt Taylor wrote in post #8115327
I have a huge amount of history within a mile of my home, but for now I'll just show something which for most people will be unusual and interesting-but for me it is a part of daily life, a summer evening here in Portsmouth is incomplete without the hourly drone of the Hovercraft heading off on another sprint over the water to Ryde, although this image was shot in the depths of winter!

Great shot!
Last Christmas I was staying at my mum's house in Basingstoke, and we went down to Portsmouth to see HMS Victory. Unfortunately it was closed that day.
Probably should have checked that before I went!!
Anyway, we walked along the front, and then went up on the hills to an old fort which has a great view of the city. I can't remember the name though!

Mocean wrote in post #8112618
bmhana - Im in Edogawa on the edge of Tokyo. Spent 6 blissful years prior to this living by the beach in Shonan and loving life. Now in Tokyo.....well there is a lot to see here I guess!

I've heard Shonan is great, although I've never been there myself.
You're right - there is a lot to do in Tokyo, but sometimes it's nice to escape the big city!!

BTW - have you found the "Anybody living in Japan?" thread yet?
Most of the guys and girls on there live in and around Tokyo.