I walked around at the uptown of toky

Last Sunday, I could make time to walk around  at the uptown of Tokyo. Surprisingly foreigners don't know that there are a lot if shinto shrines and temples, which are decorated. I think Tokyo is a strange city, because classical regional cites and the cutting-dege places exsist simultaneously.

English for business or for pleasure

I read below:

http://st.japantimes.co.jp/essay/?p=ey20150417

I was impressive that I want to get English skills for pleasure.

However, sometimes, I'm anxious because I don't have

confidence whether business English and daily English are same or not.

This article teaches me the basic knowledge appears to be common.

Anyway, I like a phrase of  "Let’s take this offline."

Someday, I'll try to use the phrase when I'll in a trouble.

My favorite home-made soda water

In weekdays, I stop drinking alcoholic liquids. It's because I found a great liquid, which is a home-made soda water, no sugar, no calorie and no preservative. I'd like to explain how to make it.
The items of needed.
 1. water
 2. equipment (in my case, I use twinspa by GREEN HOUSE CO., LTD)
       http://www.green-house.co.jp/campaign/products_special/twispa/

↑the bottle of twinspa. It allows us preserve the soda water in a refrigerator.

When making soda water, changing the part of cap to special part.

The special part. It can involve the small CO2 bottle.

You can see the bottle inside the special part.

The bottle can be bought in several on-line shops.

It doesn't appear to be effective to appeal to national people.

I think that the drone'll be useful for the future. It has much latent potential,
but this incidents would restrict the operations.  I don't understand why the
person do such a criminal thing.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/23/national/cesium-carrying-drone-landed-prime-ministers-helipad-time-march-22-abe-flight/#.VTlTDdLtl8N

I agree with this candidate.

One of the Japanese political candidate is planning to stop using campaign vans.
(If you want to know more, please read below URL.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/20/national/politics-diplomacy/chiyoda-ward-
candidate-swears-campaign-vans/#.VTVgQNLtl8M

I can agree with him, because the aloud voice from speaker appears to sound like a noise.

thinking of the age of majority

The Japanese age of majority is defined as twentieth years old by laws. From the viewpoint of my experience, the definition wasn't

appreciate to me. It's because I couldn't have a mind of matured man, because the law made me childish. 

Up to now,

The Japanese lawmakers try to change the Japanese

age of majority from twentieth to eighteenth.

It appears to be good for Japanese young.

I saw summer clouds.

In my opinion, the appearance of clouds

changes every season.

We can see the change of sky earlier than

the change on the ground.

Yesterday, I saw summer clouds in the sky.

I was so glad because I like summer.

Rainy days

 There are many rainy days recently, so it's difficult for me to walk around in my lunch time. Its time makes me relux.

  If it'll be fine, I'll go walking outside of my office premises.

Tulips are in full bloom.

Last Sunday, I walked around with my SLR camera.

Sakura（The cherry blossoms) are past in full bloom.

Therefore, I was little shocked because I wanted to

take photos that Sakuar are in full bloom.

Instead of Sakura, I found cute tulips beside a sidewalk.

I was so happy that I can take beautiful photos of Tulips.

A guardian deity named Jizo

In old days, There were many Jizo beside loads.

The Jizo watched walkers to keep their safety.

My storage photo

Few weeks lately, when weekends come, it becomes dark.

As the result, I can't take photographs in recent weekends.

Therefore, I decided to upload some photographs taken

before few weeks.

the manner when you visit to a Shinto shrine

When you want to pray in a shrine,

you'd better to go to the washing

area before your praying.

Some guide books tell us that

human is not clean,so

people should wash their mouths

and hands in this washing zone.

If you don't wash your mouth and hand,

none would get angry with you,

because this rule is applied for

a few people now.

A shinto shrine is so amazing

The other day, I went to the Yushimatenjin, 

which is one of the famous Shinto shrines in Japan.

When I visited there, a unknown couple held their wedding

 in the shrine.  It appears to be a rare case for young couple

to do it in shrine. It's because that Japanese can select the style of

the wedding from tree: Christian, Buddhistic and

Shinto style. I was so lucky because I have few times

to watch the shrine style.  If you have interest in the shrine.

Pleases the below URL.

http://www.yushimatenjin.or.jp/pc/eng-page/english.htm

The Yushimatenjin enshrines a god of learning,

so young peopy visit to play the god

for their test score up.

http://tencoo.fc2web.com/jinja/xyusima.htm

Test shots of my close-up lens

I have several types of close-up lenses, but

I didn't execute test shorting for them.

In last week end, I took some pictures.

The photos below are the examples.

I tried to take photos of my ipod.

The close-up shooting would be needed

a tripod.

The tips for using the telephoto lenses

If you use the telephoto lenses aggressively,

Please open the aperture of the lens to the minimal 

F number as you can as possible.

I saw a votive tablet, an ema

I saw a votive tablet, an ema in the other day.The ema is a kind of symbol of prayer.They donate it for a Shinto shrine to win a entrance examination, a love or something.

Demerit of telephoto lenses

On the contrary, telephoto lenses tend to cause

a camera shake, so you should hold a camera tight

to prevent from bad effects from it.

You'd better to use a tripod if you have it. 

Merit of telephoto lenses

The type of telephoto lenses has some merits,

which one is so called compression effect.

This picture use adopt the effect.

I think I could reproduce the scene wll

to use a telephoto lens.