Today the better half and I went to the village of Bise in Okinawa, Japan. She'd never been there before and has been bugging me to take her ever since she saw the first photos I shot, way back when of the fukugi trees lining the streets in the little town. More about the whatchamacallit in the photo above, later.
The wife fell in love with my new CANON G12 and wanted to shoot the fukugi trees. She knew I'd be packing my tripod and camera gear to do some photography so, she wanted to try some, too.
The first thing we ran into driving on the narrow, main road going into town was this water buffalo pulling a cartload of tourists. My camera bag was in the back seat. By the time I pulled off the side of the road to make room for the contraption and had my camera ready to shoot, the water bull was passing. I snapped this quick shot with the PENTAX K5 through the open, driver's side window.
The Missus took this photo of whatchamacallit plants with the Canon G12. All of a sudden anything that resembles those elephant ear plants, no matter what shape, or color they are, has become an elephant ear plant. She could be right but, for now, they're just whatchamacallits, to me.
We wandered the streets of Bise and shot photos of the trees, all kinds of flowers and it was kinda fun. I still have a pile of photos to develop and look at. Then, serious research begins.
The Canon, the wife was shooting, I set to fully AUTO MODE so, her photos are JPGs, right out of the camera. If and when I ever get the new camera in my hands, I'll switch it to fully Manual Mode and be shooting RAW files. Not sure yet if its the Canon, Pentax, or the RAW converter program I use but, the color in the Pentax photos sure looks better than what the Canon created, to me.
While the Canon Lady was (ahem) composing shots of the (ahem) elephant ears, I pretended I was shooting them, too. This big, fat, juicy caterpillar was munching on an elephant ear plant so loud I could almost hear him. The wife would scream if she saw the rascal.
He was probably just eating a leaf that was dying, anyway. But, whenever she sees one of these things in our garden she acts like it's some kind of humongous snake. HELP! ANACONDA!
Maybe it'd be a good idea for me to study up on these critters. They look like they might just turn out to be a really pretty butterfly. Probably a great big one, too. But, for now, they're just whatchamacallits like the rest of the stuff I don't know.
Greenstuff squirts out of them when you step on one. Squirts pretty far, too, if you stomp on one really hard (ahem) so I've been told. Anyway, this guy just got his picture taken today and got to keep munching away because (ahem) nobody saw him.
The whatchamacallit character in the first photo I bought from this gal who runs a seashell shop.
We became friends on my previous trips to Bise and I'm always forgetting to bring photos I promised her.
The wife bought some trinket and I got me the character. I may make a logo out of him someday.
Anyway, once I got home, I grabbed the G12 and snapped the photo of the handsome-looking dude at the kitchen table using the wife's special camera settings while she was busy doing something else.
I'll have to sneak out of the house with that camera sometime and see what it'll do with my settings on it.
A thorough review of that little puppy is coming soon. Please standby...
Have a look at photos of wildlife, festivals and travel sites here. Sharing tips for travelers with a twist of humor is part the life I enjoy in Okinawa, Japan. Photos and text Copyright © Michael Lynch. All photos contain traced digital watermarks. You may contact:http://www.ryukyulife.com/ for licensing.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
A Whatchamacallit Kinda Day in Bise Okinawa (Photos)
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2 comments:
I wonder why they're called fukigi trees? Hey Mike you'd better watch out, Mrs Lynch might beat you to the cover of NatGeo at this rate...you should buy her a throwaway kodak just to be on the safe side!!!
Have a great weekend.
Ryan,
Glad ya caught that. FUKUGI would be the correct spelling. I'll have to speak to my editor about doing these rush jobs in the wee hours.
Hah. Throwaway Kodaks would cost me more in the longrun should she decide to become a cameraman !
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