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Microsoft SeaDragon

December 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in General News, Photos, Technology, Travels

I’ve just been playing a little bit with Microsoft Seadragon… It’s pretty cool!

Click more to see one I made of a panorama from our holidays in the summertime! More »

Tags: high res, panorama, Photos, sea dragon, senjojiki, 千畳敷

Maruyama Zoo!

May 7th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Photos, japan

It has been golden week here in Japan. Golden week is a rare opportunity arising from a bunch of public holidays falling together. Depending on where you look definitions include the 29th of April (Showa Day) along with the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May (Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day and Childrens’ Day). As such we had a week off JLC and the nation deserted work and took to the roads (well… most of it!). The roads and parks are chock full of people as they try to make the most of this opportunity to get away from home… I am not sure if everyone sees it as a challenge to see how far they can get away from home before U-turning and heading back again in time for work on Thursday… But sometimes it seems that way!

Not to be left out I also took to the roads and headed for Maruyama zoo with Emiri. I like zoos quite a bit, sometimes they are a bit depressing with small cages and so on and so forth, but I like to take photos of animals and it’s rare that I might get to take a picture of a lion or giraffe outside of a zoo situation really… This particular zoo is the smaller of the two zoos I have heard of in Hokkaido, the other one is further away and more expensive, so we opted for this one. It falls into that category of being a bit unpleasant if you stop to think too much about the animals in their little enclosures without too many other animals about… but I didn’t stop and think too much!