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Please enjoy collections of travel photos taken mostly with compact digital cameras like Ricoh GR series. Some photos are old and scanned from slides. I like discovering good photos buried in my hard drive and improving bad ones with the help of Lightroom.
I nominally joined flicker in 2011 but became active in 2018 onwards, and all the photos in my current photostream were uploaded after 2018.
"My favourite photos" below will be changed monthly under a different theme.
There is a problem in transliterating Japanese words into the Roman alphabet. Basically, the alphabet is fairly suitable to write Japanese, but a gimmick introduced in the past is causing a problem.
Japanese language distinguishes a long vowel from a short vowel like English does. In the past, long vowels were written with a bar above a vowel like Ōsaka. Ōsaka (大阪) and Osaka (小坂) are different places, and the distinction is important if you travel in Japan. However, the government unwisely abolished the bar from the official writing system saying that it is foreign to English speakers. It is not happy with me and, probably, many of those who write about Japan in English.
I decided to write Japanese words based on Hiragana, our phonetic alphabet system, in which long vowels are written by writing two vowel letters. I believe it is better and simple, and that the official writing system should be updated accordingly in the future.
This, however, may create a mess; Tokyo will be changed to Toukyou, Kyoto to Kyouto and Osaka to Oosaka. I use the official transliteration when I refer to places that are well-known internationally like the above.
My favourites photos taken with "Ricoh GR series"
- JoinedJune 2011
- OccupationRetired
- HometownIkeda, Nagano
- Current cityTōkyō
- CountryJapan
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It’s time for a heartfelt testimonial: With now far over 3000 photographs taken from all over the world, yhila offers us not only a generous peek into other, usually less travelled regions but also gives us the chance to glimpse into how people in these parts are living their lives, invites us to discover places of natural beauty, distant cultures and the some of the unsung marvels they’ve created. Plenty of evidence on how beautiful, divers and interesting our planet is... as it is. Plenty of incentive to look into in more detail or even go there in person. While many of yhila's photographs also shine with aesthetic qualities, they thankfully are not the type of high-gloss postcard images – presenting idealised motifs with plenty of pixel-polishing. Instead they feel raw and authentic… credible. I like that a lot. I personally am excited about every new window opened up for us here. Be it a window into a rural Japanese pottery, across Peruvian wetlands, stops along the Khyber pass or even journeys two or three decades back in time. At the same time it’s very humbling to see how much I don’t know, how many places and discoveries were under my radar before yhila revealed them. And along with that, I’m also thankful for every extra effort yhila takes in providing context or reference with the uploaded images. Please keep up your excellent work. It is being appreciated – surely not just by me alone.
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