Soni Plateau again
2022-10-26 On a fine day of the end of October, I again visited Soni Plateau, the place covered by wild pampas grass on the border of Nara and Mie prefectures. In September last time, it was covered with very green grass, but this time it became brownish overall. (The photos last time can be seen […]
Hachiman-bori Canal
2022-10-21 I visited Hachiman-bori canal located in Omihachiman City, Shiga prefecture where I had been interested in for a long time, as it was a waste of time to stay at home during the beautiful autumn day. Tourists were visiting to see the well-preserved old merchant town. I got several photos with typical red colors […]
Akame 48 Waterfalls
2022-10-14 I visited the walking route of Akame 48 waterfalls in Mie Prefecture in a fine autumn day. It was my first visit. It was relatively easy to access by motorcycle, but it was much larger scale and much more rocky and steep than I imagined. When I arrived just after 9am in the morning, […]
Aburahi Shrine
2022-10-11 Last time, I visited a wooden building built around 90 years ago, but this time I visited Aburahi Shrine in Koka City, Shiga Prefecture. The shrine has much longer history; the building was built in 1493. (over 500 years ago!) The torii gate of the shrine The dragon that gives us clean water to […]
Former Elementary School in Uda City
2022-10-01 I visited a former elementary school preserved without demolished in a village surrounded by forests. (Built in 1935, so 87-year-old heavily-used wooden building!) The area was extremely quiet. It was a Saturday morning, but there were only 6 people including me. I took photos of the entire school building using a wide conversion lens. […]
CartoonGAN
One or two years ago, I tried CartoonGAN to convert photos into anime like pictures. “GAN” is an abbreviation for “Generative Adversarial Network”, a deep learning technology that learns features from prepared images and generates new pseudo images. When I saw my recent photos of black dragonflies, I wondered what would happen to them, then […]
Saho river
2022-09-16 Around the Saho river, black dragonflies can be seen everywhere. As autumn is approaching, the dragonflies are flying in groups probably for spawning. The bright green body contrasts beautifully with their deep black feathers. I found a gray heron about 3 meters ahead. map
Soni Plateau
2022-09-12 I visited the Soni plateau located on the border of Nara and Mie prefectures. It is the place covered by wild pampas grass around the wetland called Okame-ike. It was the first visit for me. I went by a car loading a foldable bicycle, but there is no path to get around by a […]
Simple image cropping code (code included)
2022-09-09 When I started building a website, the first thing I had to do was to crop photo images many times. From a 6000 x 4000 pixel photo, I had to cut out a long rectangle image in 1900 x 600 pixels for example. I tried to do this with MS Windows default paint software […]
Started my own website
2022-09-05 I started my own website. If I have a chance to visit impressive places, I want to record what I saw with some photos. Also, if I found useful methods to process images, I will publish it. thank you for visiting.