Stormlizard's photos

Taken 10 05 2009 Using; Canon EOS 400 D SLR Digital Camera. Hon-do (Sanbutsudo), Buddha hall, age 1647, Nikko National Park Tochigi Prefecture Honshu Japan. Is a UNESCO National Heritage Park

Taken 10 10 2008 using Canon EOS 400 D SLR Digital Camera.

Photographed in the local forrest, Oxshott, Surrey

My Sister pretending to be a Model.

Mine from 1954 to 1966 Photographed in Oxshott Woods, Surrey. Summer 1961

Dave mentioned this one. The Happy Buddha should not be thought of as Hotei-Oshi, the Japanese version of the Buddhist monk that is one of the seven lucky gods. Of the seven, Hotei was actually a real person whereas the others are legends or mythical. Hotei is usually depicted as a Fat man with very fat belly protruding from his robes, rather like the Buddha, at times Hotei is drawn as a man wandering among the forrest trees with unkemped long hair and a scruffy beard carrying a sack of gifts. He went against the normal rules for Monks by begging for fish and meat, forbidden foods for Buddhist monks.

Alternative lenses used at times.

At times I use a macro lens, at others a standard kit Lens. For this album I used the Tamron AF 70mm - 300mm Tele Lens as shown here.

Narita-san 成田山 Shinshō-ji 新勝寺 (The Great Main Hall) Photographed 10 30 2009 using my Canon EOS 400D SLR Digital Camera.

These Doves are not very large. Photographed 12 10 2008 using Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera. Cropped.

These rather noisy birds were everywhere even in town. Photographed 12 10 2008 using Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera.

Photographed 12 10 2008 using Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera. Like the Magpie Robin these are also noisy and to be heard all over the place.

Raven (Corvus corax) photographed using Canon EOS 400 D SLR and Tamron AF 70/300 Tele-Macro lense

This is just outside Okayama JR Station next to the Hotel I stayed at. The story is based upon an earlier Shinto legend where the hero is Prince Hiko, son of the 5th Emporer of the Kibe kingdom which is now Okayama.

Large Ginkgo tree 600 years old; Photographed 10 28 2008 ; Using Canon EOS 400D SLR Digital Camera