Day 224 2016: Start clicking...
Day 224: ...you never know what you'll find
It is a public holiday in Japan today, 'Mountain Day'. It is a new holiday to match the 'Ocean Day' earlier in the year. Apparently mountaineers were jealous the seafarers had their own day. (No, I made up that bit, but no-one seems to really know why it has been designated so.)
So today I headed east, not towards mountains but in search of sea, or similar, to visit a former student of mine, now a lecturer himself. OK, so I didn't really get too close to the sea and I expected to find a little more in the way of exotic photogenic subject matter than there was...
So instead, on the walk home from the bus stop, I just started clicking away in the park nearby, noticing things I don't usually see in the daylight because I return home in the dark.
Park-type things like:
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| Truncated |
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| The distant skyline |
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| Exhausted |
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| Dropped |
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| Sunstroke |
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| Pompom |
And then I heard, and then spotted and then photographed...
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| A bit of a preen |
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| A bit of a captain cook |
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| Highwire act |
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| So, come here often? |
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| Walk the line |
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| Puffed up |
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| On notice |
Yep, right there doing a highwire act, the descendants of the Sri Lankan parakeets I saw a few weeks ago and in a better light.
You'd almost think they put on a special show for my return home.
How nice. And then some early evening sunflowers.
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| Sun soaker |
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| Brash |
How nice.
Moral of this photographer's story: keep clicking, be alert (not alarmed), you never know what you'll see.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 5.15pm-5.26pm; 11 August 2016]
