Thanks, Sury. And also, thanks, Toni. Sometimes I am in the mood to tell a bit of the backstory (or sometimes make a jokesury wrote:Though I miss commenting on your posts, in general they are very delightful not just for the technique
or the composition but the stories they tell through the images and your narratives. I always get to feel
that I was there or at the least wish I was there. Thank you for sharing. If I can get a tenth of the ability
to capture and tell a story that many on this forum convey, I would be so lucky.
).I was walking around Makomanai in Sapporo a couple of weeks ago and stopped and bought a Coke Zero at a machine. I sat down on a bench and noticed that next to the bench a bunch of red berries that had fallen from a tree had been lined up on a concrete ledge next to the bench. This is just a photo of a few of them, but there were more. I am sure that earlier some little child had been there, maybe sitting with his/her mother, and had done it.
While sitting on the same bench I saw this old woman approaching:
A woman at Sapporo station oblivious to the danger:
I hope others will continue to post here. Please do.
Although I have been shooting raw exclusively with all my cameras that support it starting in 2006 (before that I shot raw for just some photos) I have recently gone back to mostly shooting jpegs with the 12mp Canon G16 and G15. The main reason is that the raw file sizes are so big (bigger than 16mp Olympus E-M5). For most of the photos I take with the G16 I have decided the benefits I get from raw (increased DR, etc.) are usually not worth the much bigger files sizes. Generally, raw files are about 6 times larger than a jpeg.
