It has been raining a great deal lately around our parts. We kind of needed it as the grass was getting a little brown. The wife wanted a break from watering flowers as well.
Even though the rain had kept me inside, I figured might as well use the time to play around and learn the camera some more. So below are a few pictures from inside the house.
We bought the above "ornamental thingy" hanging on the wall in Japan. Not sure what you call these sort of things, so I just call them "ornamental thingy". If you know what they are called, let me know. It matches some of our living room furniture that we purchased there as well.
There was no light except for the TV, so I thought it turned out good for a doofus behind the camera.
Above we have another "ornamental thingy". Again, there was no light but the TV, so again, thought I did pretty good in capturing this one. I really like how the metal look sparkles in the flash of the camera.
For me this "thingy" seems to tell as little story sometimes about the tree and what you see above the ground is only part of the story. The roots below the ground, that dig in, do a lot of the dirty work, that nobody sees, is a big part of the story too. You can compare that to a person I guess.
In the image above we have my military challenge coin collection. This one just didn't turn out so good at all. I could not get the camera to focus on it for the life of me. Not sure why it would not focus correctly, but I will eventually figure out how to focus right one day.
Here we have one of our two Shisa in front of the entertainment center. We have two stone Shisa on each side of our front door for decoration.
Shisa are:
a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology. Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in. source
Now this one was kind of a last minute snap shot. It is the little plant with a small gnome setup inside my wife put together. It is kind of neat looking from the side. I should have gotten a side shot of it actually. Not sure why I didn't.
Well that is it for the rainy days practice photo shoots. Believe me when i say I took a lot more, but these are about the only ones worthy of making the cut.
Thanks for reading and checking them out.
Note: All images taken by me with Kodak 1012IS
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