Category: Travel

Taken on vacation trips

“Welcome To The Muppets Show!”

"Welcome To The Muppets Show!"
We walked right into a colourful parade at the Universal Studios in Japan. The weather was brilliant then and even in the almost glaring sunlight, I managed to snap quite a few interesting and colourful shots. This particular one is of a “live” performer engrossed in his air guitar strumming. From Wikipedia.org:

An air guitar is the imaginary instrument used when pretending to play guitar. Playing an air guitar consists of an exaggerated strumming motion and is often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching. Air guitar is generally used in the imaginary simulation of loud electric guitar music, especially rock, heavy metal, and so on.

Interestingly, there are organized air guitar competitions held in many countries, including a world championship which was held first in Finland in 1996! I wonder if there will ever be an “air camera” competition one of these days 😛

Junior Fifty Three

Junior Fifty Three
We’re back from Japan! During our visit there, we encountered sunny, cloudy, gloomy, misty and rainy weather throughout the week, which meant that on certain days, I had a good haul of pictures, while the camera stayed very much in my bag on the other days. The first day of our visit was a sunny one. While waiting to enter Universal Studios, Osaka, Japan, I was attracted by the bright T-shirt of this man, who was carrying an equally interesting bag. Just as I was about to snap off his rearward profile with the interesting combination of colors, his son came into the picture, making a perfect candid moment for this decisive-moment shot 😀

Windows To A Frozen Vista

Windows To A Frozen Vista
This was taken during my honeymoon trip to Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, last year…

On a different note, I have upgraded my PC to Windows Vista Ultimate. Some things do work differently on the new OS, not all of which are exactly helpful: I had to update many of my old programs to ensure compatibility and there are some issues with colour calibration with the new OS. Thankfully, Photoshop and CaptureONE seem to work fine so far with no issues.