Oh! you can buy fireworks in Japan...

At Toys'R'us. And they are cheap. This monster bag is only $50. If only I had somewhere to let them off...

I think I might have to "find" somewhere to let them off...

Tokyo Bay Hanabi 2008

Last Sunday night was Tokyo Bay Hanabi. We had some friends over, we managed to get a dozen people into our apartment. Amazingly it wasn't to crowded. And we had pies.

Anyway this year I thought I would try something different for taking photos of the fireworks. Last year I was shooting with a wide angle lens and got some great pics of the whole scene. So this year I thought I would try shooting for some close up shots with my old 210mm zoom lens, things turned out pretty well...

I was pretty amazed at how well the old 210mm zoom worked out, it is around 15 years old after all. It doesn't have auto focus, but the *istDs could actually "talk" to it so I could control the aperture using the body, this amount of backwards compatibility really did amaze me.

Above is just a mosaic, but you can see the all the individual photos on flickr.

Welcome to the Dark Side...

I brought an iPhone. Damned Apple.

Anyway, I opened another flickr account to upload phone pics. I must admit it's very convenient to upload photos from the iPhone.

And in general it is a very damned cool toy, its just a shame you have to use iTunes, if only it had a decent piece of software on the computer side it would be so much better.

Now, time to post something else so this isn't the top post on my blog...