Can You Find Any Difference in Those Pictures?

A picture taken on Dec. 23rd, 2008 follows,
A picture taken on Dec. 10th, 2007 follows,

I’ve been making it a rule to take pictures of my family in the end of every year.
I show you two pictures; one was taken a year ago and another was a week ago.

Do you find a big difference or find no difference?

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Tennis Tournament in Igashira Park

From the left: It's me, Ms Tajima, Hiroto and Ms. Kaneda.

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Even though the result turned out to be regretful to me, I enjoyed playing tennis in the tennis tournament held in Igashira Park today.

It became rather warm and gentle day comparing to that of a year ago.
I took part in the same tournament exactly one year ago with Ms. Tajima. We could beat some teams but could not win the tournament again.

The tournaments were divided into three classes: there were an upper level class, a middle level class and a beginners’ level class.
Participants can decide their appropriate class by themselves according to the unwritten classification.
Beginners or players older than forty years old could participate in the beginners’ level class.

We participated in the beginners’ level class … but …

Anyway, I have to thank God for being able to have friends with whom I play tennis and for that I have been in the perfect physical condition, no pain at all in any part of my body, since a few months ago.

Thanks everyone, Ms. Tajima, Ms. Kaneda, Mr. Kosuge, Ms. Itoh, high school boy Hiroto and staff who ran the tournaments for sharing the wonderful day with me.
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Rainy Days in December

Due to the cold rain, the tennis tournament that I planned to participate was canceled today. It was put off till next Sunday. I stayed home and relaxed all day long.
Only two weeks are left in this year.
Time really flies.

Bunny rabbit Nobi lives with us for more than two years. She doesn’t seem to become bigger this year. On the contrary, Emi and Rina have grown up amazingly.

I have to prepare Happy New Year greeting cards within two weeks and post them before the end of this year.

I make them with family pictures every year. It’s a tough but fun job to select the best pictures among hundreds of them that I took this year.

Modified Pictures

Since the 9th grade up to my graduation of college, I was a member of photography club. I used to take hundreds of pictures within a week, develop and print them by myself.

It really took long time to make satisfactory pictures. I sometimes spent a whole night to make a few nice pictures

But everything has changed regarding to the way of photography these days. In my case, I quit taking pictures using films almost five years ago.

Thanks to the software technology, changing colors, contrast and gradation have become quite easy work.

I modified two pictures I took last month spending only few minutes.

I’m satisfied with the results very much.

Don’t you think so?

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