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Photopost: I took my new Nikon D200 to Kamakura and all I got was this lousy Buddha
I'm too tired to write a lot of words right now so here's a bunch of photos I took today using the D200 and trying out various stuff. They tell the story better than I could anyway (well, minus the part about Oren's rail pass, I'll tell that story later)
Kamakura! Land of temples, food, and a bazillion people.
The second largest buddha statue in Japan. Quite huge. Also 750 years old or so. Don't mess with the Daibutsu.
Kamakura JR Station
Carl in front of the road leading to Tsuruoka Hachimangu
A monk. It's not Kevin Shiue.
You can get cotton candy in many types of character goods bags, including the ever-popular Oshirikajiri-mushi (aka the butt-biting bug. No, I'm not making that up).
Many booths outside the temple for food or games.
Candied strawberry booth.
Candied strawberry (stuck to a Ritz cracker; I have no clue why. Quite tasty though)
Candied grape. I'm a dumbass and just ate my entire one at once. Carl laughed at me.
Since approximately half the population of Kanto decided to ALSO come to this shrine today, we decided NOT to wait in line for hatsumode or whatever.
Instead we went off to a shrine on a little island. This picture bugs me because it looked much cooler when I was taking it.
I saw people taking refuge from the crowdedness of the food booths.
More food booths.
Carl really wanted some mochi.
Isn't this lovely? Except that the tree is literally like, supporting a trash can.
This reminded me of Pittsburgh for some reason.
This is a mailbox, not a fire hydrant.
We went to see the grave of Minamoto Yoritomo, the shogun who basically made Kamakura the capital of Japan for a while.
Minamoto's grave.
It's at the top of a hill and has a lovely view of Kamakura.
But was a royal pain in the ass to climb up to.
There's a shrine at the bottom of the hill. Carl studies the kanji.
More food booth -- this time I wanted "imo sutikku", or purple potato sticks. They look really salty but are infact SUPER sweet.
Carl went off and got some yaki-sembei that he had been drooling over earlier.
This guy was blaring a loudspeaker about how everyone should convert to Christianity and be saved. I guess perhaps he figures doing that by one of the biggest shrines in Japan is a good idea?
Cool souvenir shop over in Hase.
Me and Carl, at the front of the Buddha compound. (Oren took this one. He caught up to us right before we headed off to Hase.)
It's a daibutsu. That literally just means "Big Buddha".
No, really. This thing is FREAKING HUGE.
It's hollow, apparently. You can also go inside and feel like you are "part of the Buddha's spirit", for 20 yen, but we didn't do that.
Back to being a train geek. Hase station.
And the Enoden train. I'm in love. It's so cute. Next I really REALLY REALLY REALLY want to ride the Shonan monorail dammit. But we didn't have time, it was dark by the time we were leaving Kamakura.
Carl and I went to Minatomirai, since he'd never been there before. (Oren decided to just head home at that point.) Amazingly, I saw the EXACT SAME STREET PERFORMER that Krispy and I saw when he took me there last September. Crazy! This time there were two of them instead of one and they were joking about "yaki-gaijin" when juggling fire sticks on unicycles.
We found the hard rock cafe. No, we didn't eat there, but I was trying to get a cool shot of the sign.
On the gigantic Yokohama ferris wheel.
And Carl, too.
One last shot of Minatomirai, and then we got dinner at the okonomiyaki place in the mall there, and then headed home. Wheeeee.
Funny thing is that when looking at a lot of these shots in the LCD on the D200 they looked bad, but when I got them home to my real computer they actually looked pretty spiffy. I'm not quite sure why. I still have to experiment, I think.
Kamakura! Land of temples, food, and a bazillion people.
The second largest buddha statue in Japan. Quite huge. Also 750 years old or so. Don't mess with the Daibutsu.
Kamakura JR Station
Carl in front of the road leading to Tsuruoka Hachimangu
A monk. It's not Kevin Shiue.
You can get cotton candy in many types of character goods bags, including the ever-popular Oshirikajiri-mushi (aka the butt-biting bug. No, I'm not making that up).
Many booths outside the temple for food or games.
Candied strawberry booth.
Candied strawberry (stuck to a Ritz cracker; I have no clue why. Quite tasty though)
Candied grape. I'm a dumbass and just ate my entire one at once. Carl laughed at me.
Since approximately half the population of Kanto decided to ALSO come to this shrine today, we decided NOT to wait in line for hatsumode or whatever.
Instead we went off to a shrine on a little island. This picture bugs me because it looked much cooler when I was taking it.
I saw people taking refuge from the crowdedness of the food booths.
More food booths.
Carl really wanted some mochi.
Isn't this lovely? Except that the tree is literally like, supporting a trash can.
This reminded me of Pittsburgh for some reason.
This is a mailbox, not a fire hydrant.
We went to see the grave of Minamoto Yoritomo, the shogun who basically made Kamakura the capital of Japan for a while.
Minamoto's grave.
It's at the top of a hill and has a lovely view of Kamakura.
But was a royal pain in the ass to climb up to.
There's a shrine at the bottom of the hill. Carl studies the kanji.
More food booth -- this time I wanted "imo sutikku", or purple potato sticks. They look really salty but are infact SUPER sweet.
Carl went off and got some yaki-sembei that he had been drooling over earlier.
This guy was blaring a loudspeaker about how everyone should convert to Christianity and be saved. I guess perhaps he figures doing that by one of the biggest shrines in Japan is a good idea?
Cool souvenir shop over in Hase.
Me and Carl, at the front of the Buddha compound. (Oren took this one. He caught up to us right before we headed off to Hase.)
It's a daibutsu. That literally just means "Big Buddha".
No, really. This thing is FREAKING HUGE.
It's hollow, apparently. You can also go inside and feel like you are "part of the Buddha's spirit", for 20 yen, but we didn't do that.
Back to being a train geek. Hase station.
And the Enoden train. I'm in love. It's so cute. Next I really REALLY REALLY REALLY want to ride the Shonan monorail dammit. But we didn't have time, it was dark by the time we were leaving Kamakura.
Carl and I went to Minatomirai, since he'd never been there before. (Oren decided to just head home at that point.) Amazingly, I saw the EXACT SAME STREET PERFORMER that Krispy and I saw when he took me there last September. Crazy! This time there were two of them instead of one and they were joking about "yaki-gaijin" when juggling fire sticks on unicycles.
We found the hard rock cafe. No, we didn't eat there, but I was trying to get a cool shot of the sign.
On the gigantic Yokohama ferris wheel.
And Carl, too.
One last shot of Minatomirai, and then we got dinner at the okonomiyaki place in the mall there, and then headed home. Wheeeee.
Funny thing is that when looking at a lot of these shots in the LCD on the D200 they looked bad, but when I got them home to my real computer they actually looked pretty spiffy. I'm not quite sure why. I still have to experiment, I think.
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I'm envious of your day.
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(Sometime when it's NOT a festival, though, because wow, that place was a madhouse.)
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:)
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I have a D70s, and basically I have gotten used to the display. I often look at pictures on my LCD when I take them, and then on my laptop at home, and can usually figure out whether they're going to be good or not.
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I had a D50 before this and the pictures looked different on the display on the D200 than I was used to seeing them on the D50. Darker. Maybe its default screen setting is a little bit lower because otherwise it'll completely wipe out the battery. I'm getting used to it.
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I wanna eat the HUGE yaki-sembei!!!!!
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Nice pictures. Thanks! :-)
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Say Hi to Carl for me.