No Laughing Allowed: kaleidoscope

8/6

I'm staring at the omiyages (gifts) that I bought and I really want to open them up. Kit Kat in the crazy Japanese flavors of green tea and soy sauce. I'm going to have to make another trip to the post office to mail some of these as I have no space in my luggage to bring them home. Last time I came here, I barely even thought of buying gifts for people and spent a lot on myself. So this time, I'm not eating sushi everyday or buying something at every clothes store I enter. Though, I did buy something for myself from Yodabashi today, new lens caps (one broke and I dropped another one onto the train tracks) and a memory card holder thingy. Spent just a little over $10. As I was playing with the cameras, it really made me want to buy another one. Not like right now, but you know when you're looking at things and it just pops into your head, "I want this." Yeah. I did that for everything I touched. But then common sense barged it's way through and I realize that I already have a camera that's pretty good. This is also what I've been doing to stop from buying clothes. Besides in March when I first came to Japan, I haven't really boughten any clothes since the year started. When came back to Iriya I tried out a new camera technique and was pleased with the results. It made me feel more dumb for wanting a new camera when I just found out a new cool thing that I could do with the one that I already have. For those of you who care, I just focused on something really close, like macro mode small aperture and stuff. Then switched to manual focus so that it wouldn't move and then zoomed in on streets filled with light. Because it's focused on something so near, far away lights are super out of focus and turn into perfectly round circles. I remember reading somewhere that it's called bokeh or something. I wanna try it with my macro lens, a lens meant for mega mega close up stuff like bugs and flowers. Should be cool right? Even though I think it'd be fun to hang out with other photo dudes and like give feedback and learn more techniques, I kind of like learning by myself and reading books and magazines about photography. But then again, I have never really actually hung out with photography enthusiasts, so yeah, I don't 100% know for sure.