A camera phone isn’t able to isolate the subject from the background. You have two options to deal with
this. You can either go with less clutter, and make sure your subject is in front of a simple background,
or simply fill the image with your subject. This is particularly important when it comes to portraits.
There are other times you can throw this rule right out the window. With street photography, for example,
a busy scene which fills up the screen can often make for a fascinating image.
Omikuji (divine fortune) are written fortunes available at both shrines and temples.
The degree of fortune are daikichi─great; kichi─good; shôkichi─moderate; kyô─bad. There are various opinions about what to do with the paper when you’ve read it.
If their fortune is bad, many people tie it immediately to a branch of an adjacent tree as a prayer for divine protection (sute-mikuji) .
The shrines and temples suggest you should eventually return the paper, if possible to the same place where you received it, and tie it up.
Osawa no ike : Located in the east of Daikakuji, this is the oldest artificial garden in Japan surrounded by woods and a pond spanning a distance of approximately 1 km.
Emperor Saga built it imitating Dongting Hu lake in China. It is also called the garden pond.
There are two islands, Tenjin-jima Island and Kikuga-shima Island, and a stone called Teikoseki. This arrangement of the two islands and the stone resembles the basic form of Ikebana Saga Goryu.
日本人は、この三、四日に無上の価値を置く。
絢爛豪華に咲いて、サッと散る桜に、人の世の儚さを重ねるからだ。
The Japanese have feelings of awe and reverence toward nature. For western people, nature is something that has to be subjugated to secure the happiness of human race.
From the remotest past no Japanese has ever believed that. Nature is something majestic beyond all comparison with humankind, and we should humble ourselves before it. The Japanese sensed the existence of something holy in nature and so sought to live in harmony with it. It is this emotion that is responsible for the modesty of the Japanese people.
My blogger-name is a quotation from "MOMO", that is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973. The strange story of the time-thieves (the Men in Grey) and the child (MOMO) who brought the stolen time back to the people. ------------------------------------------------■2006.10■ 『グレイマンの複眼的視点』を立ち上げ、200枚に及ぶ写真と185の記事で、ブログを楽しむも、身辺に起こった諸事により、1年余りで中断しこれを消去^_^; ■2009.02■ 「帰ってきたグレイマン」として、現在のブログを立ち上げるも、目標に掲げた「月に一度の記事更新」はままならず、のたりのたり…時間泥棒としての腕力はすでに無く、ともすれば産業廃棄物になりつつある私ですが、よろしくお付き合いのほど、願い上げる次第です(*^^)v