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Off to work. Bicycle commuting.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, we’ve got some yoyu<\/em> (\u4f59\u88d5), that is, spare time, time to go slow and let our brains breathe. . . . So when we spot, a hundred meters or so off our left shoulder, the mountain plums blooming, blooming just in front of the bright spring green bamboo, we can, with no worries, make a little detour.<\/p>\n Yes, we’ve left home a little early, so we can make a detour like this if we want to, and still get to work on time. We’re on our bicycle, so we don’t have to worry about the road getting congested.<\/p>\n The plum tree is up on the mountainside, so let’s be content to take a few pics from below.<\/p>\n Our modest camera can zoom in a bit, but maybe not as much as we’d like–and not with as much precision as we’d like . . .<\/p>\n . . . so when we spot movement in the tree, little birds flitting about, we can’t zoom in enough, and all we can take are\u00a0 fuzzy grey shots.\u00a0 We look at a shot we’ve taken on our camera screen and see the vague outline of a bird—but none of it’s natural color.<\/p>\n But now we’re still standing under the tree. If we’re going to see the lovely color of the mejiro, well, we’ll just have to imagine it.<\/p>\n Fortunately, that’s not so hard to do.<\/p>\n We’ve got some pretty good software, too.<\/p>\n Sometimes, though, you need a bit of\u00a0yoyu<\/em> to remember that. Off to work. Bicycle commuting. Fortunately, we’ve got some yoyu (\u4f59\u88d5), that is, spare time, time to go slow and let our brains breathe. . . . So when we spot, a hundred meters or so off our left shoulder, the mountain plums blooming, blooming just in front of the bright spring green bamboo, we … Continue reading Imagining the mejiro<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180216_mountain_cherries_1_450.jpg\")
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When we get home, we can use our software and remove most of the dark shadows .Then the colors of the mejiro (the white-eyed) will appear. We can make each shot a little less like a photograph, a little more like a painting, hide the blurry, grainy aspects of the original–pretend that we’d never hoped for a crystal clear shot.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/180216_mejiro_mountain_cherries_5_600.jpg\")
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