Big Bridge

I took a small trip yesterday to see the Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋 - Seto Ohashi) just because it is a big bridge, and it is there/here. It's the world's longest 2 tier bridge (about 13km/8 miles), if statistics like that make you fuzzy inside.

42(1)/366 - Great Seto Bridge
(taken on my D5100, 18-55mm)

42(2)/366 - More Big Ass Bridge
(taken on my D5100, 55-200mm lens - this day was my first real attempt to use this lens)

42(3)/366 - Even More Big Ass Bridge
(taken on my D5100, 55-200mm lens - this day was my first real attempt to use this lens)

As you can tell, it was pretty overcast yesterday. Also, I still have no idea, really, what I am doing with this Big Girl camera. I feel like I a missing "something" that could have made all of these shots better (even after I toyed with the lighting a little bit before posting them), but it was fun to actually carry a camera bag out there knowing I had more than one lens to play with, even if I felt like a little girl playing dress up in shoes about 5 times to big. Hopefully I'll grow into it. It worked with my feet, right?

I'm a noob, so if you have any really basic advice about what you would have done with a big girl camera on an overcast day while taking a picture of a bridge like this, please Speak Very Slowly and let me know.

Magic

Technically, I didn't take this picture today, but I did take it this week. Then it magically appeared on my computer. Easily, wirelessly and exactly how I'd hoped it would. Pretty much loving the whole Eye-Fi memory card way of getting pictures to my computer. Hopefully it will mean using my Big Girl camera more often now that it's been made that much easier.

41(1)/366 - Small New Toy

This one was taken earlier in the week, too. The whole sun and snow flurry thing felt fairly magic-like.

41(2)/366 - Sun. Snow.

Haiku Friday - Looking Forward

always plan something
to look forward to short-term.
planned. looking forward!

such joy balanced with
the agony of waiting.
i'm a sappy mess!

40/366 - OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG! Tom! To Japan!! Whee!!
(taken on my iPhone, super toyed with in BeFunky app)

Arranged

39/366 - Arranged
(taken on my iPhone, just inside my school's entry past the genkan)

Crime Scene

I've spend more than a few minutes in Japan, and few things surprise me here anymore. Then, yesterday, I saw this. A little yellow sign saying you're not allowed to just leave your dog's poop sitting there when it happens as if you have no sense of how to act right (OK, I added the last part). Because someone did that. Didn't pick it up, I mean. So then someone ELSE apparently goes around and puts little signs next to dog turds. (Bwahahahaha! I'm dying as I type this.) But neither party actually removes it. I giggled/am still giggling. Congratulations, Japan, you got me.

38/366 - Crime Scene
(taken on my iPhone, toyed with in Instagram, making the poop look less, um, poopy and yucky)