All thanks to Housan Susuki Sensei
My best guess is that I am now into my 3rd week of Shuriken-Jutsu,
which is the practice and study of throwing sharpened objects.
My foundation is in Gung-fu and as soon as I stumbled on this new [to me] martial-art on the internet, I was hooked and wanted to learn all I could.
I have made and throw Bo-Shuriken, which look like chisels as opposed to the Star Shurikens that look like flat sharp stars.
After making many prototypes I’ve setteled in on a style of Bo that I like.
I have hay bales set up for my archery and I now use those to practice my Shuriken-Jutsu.
I believe it is the ‘exactness’ of the throw that has me intrigueged.
The throw is called ‘no-spin’ or better said ‘1/4 spin’ as opposed to what’s called circus throwing which flips and flips all the way to the target.
3 or more weeks into to it and I still struggle in mastering it.
Somedays are better than others, but I am hooked.
Here are some pictures from the web.
I’ll post more on my progress later.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
INFRARED ON A HOT SUNNY DAY
INFRARED ON A HOT SUNNY DAY
Of course digital cameras are cool,
the more you learn about them the more you find to do.
Take FILTERS.
Filters are just simple glass lenses that fit over the camera’s main lens to effect the light coming in.
They darken, color, enlarge etc, however the INFRARED filter blocks all normal light and only allows the infrared spectrum through.
What infrared light is, I don’t know, but the pictures I create with it are dreamy and a little eerie.
The classic infrared shots are of landscapes, where it turns skies a nice dark, and green-leaves to white, but with these portraits, like I said they’re sorta un-earthly.
The originals have a pinkish hue that was removed with PhotoShop, then I did some hand-coloring.
Of course digital cameras are cool,
the more you learn about them the more you find to do.
Take FILTERS.
Filters are just simple glass lenses that fit over the camera’s main lens to effect the light coming in.
They darken, color, enlarge etc, however the INFRARED filter blocks all normal light and only allows the infrared spectrum through.
What infrared light is, I don’t know, but the pictures I create with it are dreamy and a little eerie.
The classic infrared shots are of landscapes, where it turns skies a nice dark, and green-leaves to white, but with these portraits, like I said they’re sorta un-earthly.
The originals have a pinkish hue that was removed with PhotoShop, then I did some hand-coloring.
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