A few more photos I’ve taken in the past few days… I use a Canon PowerShot S30 Digital camera and enjoy it quite a bit; at 3 megapixels, it takes photos quite large enough for my purposes, and it has a good many features for a camera in its price range (when I bought it–now the S50 is priced where the S30 was a year or so ago). I especially like the manual control features, and the picture quality is quite good. Keep in mind that the images I publish here are sized down to fit this web page, so there is a loss in sharpness; also, I use Photoshop’s “save for web” feature to bring the file size down, and that takes away from the quality as well.

These photos are among the many I take experimentally, just fooling around–and that’s the other great thing about digital cameras, you never have to worry about the price of film and developing. When I used my Nikon FG, I was always stingy in my shots, knowing the cost. With the Canon, I take literally thousands of shots.

On the train this morning, long enough exposure for the background to be blurred. Taken on the Keio line train from Hashimoto to Shinjuku, pulling into a station along the main line.

Hiromi, at a restaurant late afternoon yesterday. Caught her reflection in the window against the trees outside, just after it started to rain.

I usually like to cut the aspect ration to 2:1 or thereabouts, but this one deserved full play. The best (OK, not spectacular, to be certain) of a series taken at the B1 level of Shinjuku Station at Nishi-guchi, in front of the koban. Ambient light called for a 1-second exposure, so I tried following individuals as they passed by, tracking with them as the background blurred behind them. I’ve added a few more below from this group to give you a feeling for what I was playing with.