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posted: October 31st, 2021 |
This page is all that we have to offer this month. We begin with October 2nd and our first substantial snow of the season. Then we show some photos of some Niku-man, or steamed-buns which Kazuya made for us. After that are a few photos of the Aurora Borealis. There is a full moon photo and some sunrise time photos and after that you'll find several photos of 'Nerikiri' - a type of traditional Japanese sweets, which are popular at the Japanese Tea Ceremony. After that are a few more sunrise time photos and then a shot of one of our dinner meals. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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The first photo here was taken from inside the house, obviously. You can see our first substantial snowfall (about 6 inches = 15 cm). The center photo panorama was shot on the 6th and shows that not all of the leaves had fallen from the trees before the snow. The third shot shows this even better.
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On October 8th Kazuya tried his hand at making steamed buns, something which we often bought from the convenience stores when we were in Japan. They are so very tasty and appealing during the cold season.
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His experiment was super successful - the steamed buns were absolutely delicious.
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This panoramic image was shot on the 10th. You can see that it has snowed a bit more and covered all of those leaves up. It was super foggy too. Note our golden yellow larch tree near the left side of the photo.
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Here are three shots of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Our cameras are not the best ones for capturing this phenomenon and therefore we have to process every photo to make them show up as good as possible.
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Here are three more shots of the Aurora Borealis. In Photoshop® the best way to process this type of photo is to adjust the Curves.
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Here is a shot of the full moon which was taken through the trees, and therefore it's the tree branches which are in focus instead of the moon. The second shot was taken at sunrise time.
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These three photos show "Nerikiri", a type of traditional Japanese sweet, which is popular at the Japanese tea ceremony. Kazuya tried some autumnal designs like chrysanthemums, winter camellia and spider lily with a dragonfly. The main ingredient is Lima beans! Can you believe it?
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Aren't these just amazing to see? I could not believe that he could do this - he has so many different talents.
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They are delicious too. Maybe you were shocked to read that the main ingredient is Lima beans, but it's not just some cooked Lima beans. The beans were soaked in water and then cooked for a bit. After that he peeled all of the skins off the beans and then cooked them a bit more and then pureed them. It's an amazing process.
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Of course food coloring is mixed in with little parts and then used to construct the Nerikiri. He used several different implements to create the shapes and dents in the tops and sides.
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Here is another shot taken at sunrise time. There was a low hanging fog bank and the sun was just peeking above the fog. Unfortunately the photo doesn't look like what our eyes saw, and I could not figure out way to process this photo so that it looked as it did when we were watching it. The second image in this row is the same photo as the first one, but this was after processing it as an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo in Photoshop®.
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Here are two additional photos which were taken at the same time as the one just above.
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Kazuya found some nice canned clams in the store - Bar Harbor brand - a famous place in Maine. He wanted to give them a try, so he made them into a sauce and served the sauce with linguine pasta. It was a delicious dinner.
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