I think Japan is not alone;) Ah, 梅雨 "rainy season" is upon us too! From last weekend it kept raining with no breaks! Our African warm weather succumbed to the heavy rain showing sharp fluctuation in the degrees, again to be very cold, 15-16 celsius measured! The sky showered raindrops to soften the darkness and removed the dust, gave place to a clear dawn this morning, a reminder of how much better it feels to face this weather with our umbrellas, flimsy or sturdy one:)
I like raindrops very much. Big fun to notice those mini worlds with my camera. There are little worlds in them if I closely look. When capturing them, I was thinking what does it mean to be a connection? Success? For some people it means that we blow air kisses, for others it is an oath, for some there are no standards.
Is your team at work, or let's say your company, a "wine glass-shaped culture" or "umbrella"? Are drop-by-drop differences considered obstacles or opportunities to your long-term success? I'd love to hear how you are approaching this subject:)
Don't miss!
If you have a look at DiCesare Designs, you'll see how art and engineering come together creating shell-inspired innovative and fanciful parashells and umbrellas! Unseen beauty and delicacy before... all by Canada-born, Tokyo based John Di Cesare. I fell in love those two: parashell Flamenco and Kyoto Sakura
I like raindrops very much. Big fun to notice those mini worlds with my camera. There are little worlds in them if I closely look. When capturing them, I was thinking what does it mean to be a connection? Success? For some people it means that we blow air kisses, for others it is an oath, for some there are no standards.
Is your team at work, or let's say your company, a "wine glass-shaped culture" or "umbrella"? Are drop-by-drop differences considered obstacles or opportunities to your long-term success? I'd love to hear how you are approaching this subject:)
Don't miss!
If you have a look at DiCesare Designs, you'll see how art and engineering come together creating shell-inspired innovative and fanciful parashells and umbrellas! Unseen beauty and delicacy before... all by Canada-born, Tokyo based John Di Cesare. I fell in love those two: parashell Flamenco and Kyoto Sakura
Hi Nihal! The flowers with the drops in your very beautiful photos describe so well the charming atmosphere of the rainy day.
ReplyDelete***
I like japanese ideograms, they are so nice! Each ideogram is a word or each ideogram is just a letter of the word? And tell me, please: how do you manage to write ideograms with the computer? Do you have a special keyboard with the ideograms or you take them from a "map" which is a software utility? Thanks very much if you can answer these questions.
Have a pleasant Saturday evening :-)
Wine glass or umbrella, no idea I do not work. The raindrop flower photos are exquisite.
ReplyDeleteRaindrop on flower...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and atmospheric photos!
雨に濡れた花は綺麗ですね。
Ｎihalさんは、日本語がとても上手です。
日本にいるときに、勉強したのですか？
ところで、今でもスイカを食べます。
だけど、昔に較べるとかなり高価になってしまったので、あまり気軽には食べられません。
You captured those raindrops so beautifully. I love how clean the air smells after a summer storm.
ReplyDeleteDarla
Forgive me if the translation was not perfect but your photos are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMorris
Beautiful macro images of flowers and dew drops, gorgeous...Thomas
ReplyDelete@ Pietro: One of the first thing is to learn the concept of stroke order. The one and only correct way of writing "kanji" characters is behind it as well as the main rules.
ReplyDeleteThey are both of them: the Chinese characters (or letters) and their Japanese deviations, called as Kanji. Some of them combines often incredible amount of strokes involved, some very easy. For example:
雨 -> ame (rain); 8-strokes; can you see the little drops on a window in this character?
川 -> kawa (river); 3-strokes; doesn't it look like branches of a river?
Very easy examples about Japanese calligraphy, as we call 書道 (Shodō); really an art, I love it:) Maybe oneday I can publish a post with my (japanese handwriting)..
Did you know Shodō was practiced for centuries in Japan! You may not believe it at first, but if you try writing the same kanji with different stroke orders with your handwriting, then you’ll see the difference:)
Actually there's more and more to tell about japanese but its not the right place here. Yes, I use a special keyboard. I'd advise you:
http://www.declan-software.com/japanese_ime/
I think you can install japanese into your pc. Wondering if you have ever studied japanese?
@ Nobuさん: そう言って下さってとても有り難いです。いいえ、そうジャなくて、日本にいるときに会社員てした。私はココで日本領事館のクラスを続けて一生懸命日本語が勉強しました。
A、そうてすか。良く分かるのでスイカの値段が随分上がりました。残念てすね。
@ Morris: No tears, because when one wants to use google translation provides 'low' and 'incorrect' quality from foreign languages to turkish, not only italian to turkish. The service really needs to be improved. Let's forgive Google:)
Hi Nihal! You are so kind, thanks for the excellent concepts about the ideograms. It's true, there is very much to tell about Japanese language and surely "blog to blog" is not the right place. I'll try with pleasure the interesting link you've given me for the keyboard. The ideograms are really amazing: very small and at the same time very detailed and harmonious; they are art indeed.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that the the two ideograms at the beginning of your post (rainy season) are: 1 = season, 2 = rainy. Of course for the time being it's an enigma for me both what Nobu writes and your answer to him!
Have a very beautiful week :-)
How wonderful flower Greetings from Creativity and imagination pictures of José Ramón
ReplyDelete@ José: Thanks for your kind note, come again:)
ReplyDelete