Tateyama

Tateyama, yes, i 've been to Tateyama mountain last month, it is quite famous here in Japan. but, i am not good at climbing at all... just shoot a short video for memory. I should say - Tateyama is beautiful and you can feel its spirit when you get close to... really wanna go there again with my 8x10, but the weight will kill me^_^.

Tateyama.Japan from tgsryu on Vimeo.

5:09AM 地震了...

地震, 来到富山后我总是起得很早, 今天早上和平时一样 5点就开始用mac上网随便浏览一下. 猫们都在隔壁房间, 那个房间没安空调, 我这几天都睡在了带有榻榻米并且安装有空调的房间里. 刚开始感觉是猫们在跑动, 紧接着就感觉不对, 跑的动静太大了, 整个建筑在摇晃, 嗯, 摇晃了大概10-20秒左右, 我就抱着我的大mac想, 我是不是应该放下电脑, 做点什么呢, 不过最终还是懒得移动, 干脆进到blogspot里开始地震后的自言自语.

嗯 嗯, 总结下, 感觉还行, 没来得及害怕.

出发前夜.

明天就要出发了, 离开北京.

也没有太多的想法, 可能是因为这次需要准备的事情太多了. 猫们的所有出国手续终于在经历了半年多后陆续完备. 明天对它们来说会是不太轻松的一天, 对我来说也是一样.

一个箱子, 两个箱子, 最后我们准备了三个箱子, 两个猫的专用箱子, 三个双肩背包与两个大腰包, 终于把这次要带的东西都放了进去. 看着这些行李, 有点发愁, 怕自己拿不动...恩, 真的很沉.

所有的大相机都没有带, 只带了最轻巧的135和数码相机, 朋友还塞过来了一套Leica M6和一只50mm的镜头, 让我重温一下, 呵呵. 确实是很长时间没用了. 家里竟然连135的胶片也几乎没有了. 跑去买了30多卷彩色负片, 一个月的时间, 不知道能拍出来什么...拍吧, 除了拍照片好像也没什么其他的事情了...

Third One...This Month

I don't know what to say. This month, June, summer time, sounds not bad but today thst Half Frame Camera Chaika, after one roll, stooped working for me. So this month, i got three dead cameras...Anybody know what is going on? who is the next?(horrible question!)
Tomorrow my friend Su will visit here from Nan-Ning city. hope he could bring me good luck. hope everything is gonna be fine with my cameras. (it is the first time in my life, three bad cameras in one month)
No pic this time...

New Blood

Talking about New Blood, well, I got two funny Russian cameras from Pan, he is a great guy, a wonderful designer, and a lazy photographer...yes. One is a half frame camera Chaika(means "Seagull" in Russian) and another one is a Horizon 202 panorama, all they use 135 format films, so, time to back to sweet 135^_^hope i could get some interesting series using these funny cameras.
New blood is good, but, also have some bad news, this month, my old friendly pentax P&S camera and Canon AE-1...they just don't wanna work any more. I tried to fix them, but i failed, camera repairing is not a easy job. Recently i am using AE-1 with a tele-lens to finish one of my series, but, looks like i could not finish that series here in Beijing. Tele-lens is interesting, i think i will find a cheap set when i am in Japan and make a happy ending for that photo series.
Recently it's very hot here, maybe the high temp. killed my lovely old cameras? who knows, anyway, 40 C is not a good temp. to enjoy, so i stayed at home and re-edit my video clip,
here is the link: http://vimeo.com/5061435
I really love that music in video, it is just amazing.

Rain

Summer.Rain from tgsryu on Vimeo.

又到了時不時可能會下暴雨的夏季了, 16日的暴雨讓我想起Zakka還在國子監的時候, 於是拿起攝像機從家裡僅有的三個窗口把這場雨記錄了下來. 那時天黑的厲害, 上午11點竟讓讓人感覺如同傍晚, 人們紛紛打開了房間裡的燈, 我好像非常享受這樣的天象...我喜歡暴雨來臨前的感覺, 不知道是否算個怪人.
今天天氣還是依然的昏暗, 我的相機們好像都不太防水, 如果遇到16日那樣的暴雨, 估計相機們就是溺水而亡一條路了, 而天氣預報說, 還是有可能要來場大雨, 不過我還是需要出去一趟, 家裡沒有米了...嘿嘿, 還是要堅持多自己做飯的.
這兩天, 兩個系列的拍攝有些停下來的感覺, 更多的時間用在了編輯與整理, 把一些照片從系列中挑了出來...拍攝的過程大概是這樣的, 一段時間會比較順利, 感覺良好, 然後停滯, 整理, 把原來感覺良好的片子剔除一半...於是便期待下次良好感覺的到來, 嗯 , 是的, 我正在期待中.

www.liu-tong.com

www.liu-tong.com
Yes, I got it, for about one month a little more, i worked with my friends, designing, editing, changing, wow, it was not a easy work. but we got it, we got it here and I d like to say thanks to Mr. Y.Liu, Q.Zhao and my sister, and Kevin . Especially - Kevin, he is a genius, knows everything about site building, about soft... well, genius is genius, right?!
I still have one short series, only four pics, waiting for uploading, but first i need to design the page for showing these four pics, series called "Red", really really red and simply red.
Today, on Internet, finally we can see how Olympus EP1 looks like. I don't know if you like it or not, but it is not my favorite, an old and real Olympus Pen will make me happier. I feel that i can get some interesting images in Tokyo using this half frame little camera, so, first i need to know when i could visit Tokyo, hehe, and second, I need a Pen^_^.