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One nail loosened, the fortune of this family hangs in the balance.Nagoya, Japan.
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Haha very nice
It contrast well with the constance of the others
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The incongruity is interesting. Makes for a great shot.
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Exactly what stopped me in my tracks.
Thank you!
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nice. so much detail in something simple. the thing with this, i noticed the edges of the frame on the left and right sides. maybe's just a personal nikpik of mine, but i'd made full widescreen, and leave only the top and bottom black bars for a streamline composition. but that's just me. you really can't notice the frames when distracted by the awesome content in it.
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I stick with the 5 pixel side frames since I don't want the image to stretch all the way to the side of the monitor. I use only my shots for wallpapers at work and they work quite effectively this way.
Thank you!
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This is a really cool shot. And knowing how superstitious Japanese can be about these things really makes it interesting.
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Sounds like an interesting legend of Japanesse folklore
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Nice comment you gave about your deviation. Glad I'm not that family! Very nice shot , disrupted pattern
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It shows you my great reference point of Japanese culture, but this immediately made me think of "Spirited Away", the room with the spidery man and all the files along the wall. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing (and no, I'm not anime geek, I had to be lured into watching it in the first place).
But it is so heavily repetitious, and then the one falling board. Not really about to hit the ground (I see the nail there) but it gives that impression, and I love that.
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I haven't seen "Spirited Away", so unfortunately your reference is lost on me.
Thanks!
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The texture in this photo is amazing. I felt if I had a print, I could rub my fingers against the print and feel wood.
After that, I just love how you use the DOF to maintain focus on the subject of the photograph.
Good STuff Bill
-Marc
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The wood was definitely weathered. Interested feel and look.
Thank you, Marc!
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Amamzing shot Bill and the description adds so much to it!
FYI-- ~fabemiko-stock is correct... each piece of wood contains the name of a person or organization that donated monies to the temple
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Excellent. Thanks for the verification. I thought about asking you and A, but you came through before I had a chance.
Thank you, my friend.
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My pleasure... I had to ask Asako to make sure
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I'm not positive.
~fabemiko-stock believes that they are boards that are posted when someone makes a donation to the temple.
That's the best explanation I can get.
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makes sense, since they look as if they are meant to stay.
thanks, Bill.
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And =rubberman542 confirmed that suspicion.
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...after asking hsi wife, I suppose
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Nothing wrong with that.
I just hadn't got around to sending him a note to ask her anyway.
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oh yessss. wise men always ask their wives
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I quite like the fact that the piece falling seems to say "skip" in the middle of it.
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And skip makes me think of kids in summertime.
Love how the mind works.
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Very nice!! I love everything about this shot!!
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great perspective and great subject...
I love it...so beautiful! so simple and calm...
I wonder what it says...
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Thank you, Cristina!
I'm still trying to get that sorted out. Hopefully we'll know soon.
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Okay, let us (specially me because I'm curious 
most welcome!
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My pleasure, Shimon.
I'm still working on getting to your latest journal entry. I scanned it quickly the other day, but couldn't give it the attention it deserves (and the learning I desire).
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no problem... after all, you're flat out. and we shouldn't look at these mutual visits as an obligation, but rather as an opportunity... and there's just so many opportunities that we have room for. were it up to me, we would meet opposite those prayer planks for a moment as we both adjust our eyes... though i, as a priest, am traditionally prohibited from wandering around graveyards... though once there was an exception, and with a role to perform, i found myself at the edge of eternity. and there, would you believe it, balanced as i was between blunt shock of the children of the dead, and the eternal dissolution of time itself... i took a black and white picture which i keep in my personal files to this day. maybe i'll share it with you one day
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Oh no, sir. It's not an obligation. If you knew me better, you'd know that I actually resist external obligations, sometimes violently. I do things because I want to; because they are the right thing to do; because I'll learn something from them; because I'll become a better person by doing them.
And your journals definitely fit into the last two categories.
If you can find it within yourself to share the image, if it fulfills a need to expose it, then I'd love to see it.
And one day, whether it be here or hereafter, we will meet across those prayer planks.
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well, what attracted me to you in the first place was the depth of your eyes, but the more i get to know you, the more i enjoy it. your words cut to the essence, god bless you! and I will share that image with you.
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Amazing moment, so anybody must to repair it !!
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But they may not. There were random holes throughout the wall, so some must have fallen.
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understand...it's like destiny?
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fascinating! it would be interesting to know more about this, since it seems to be something unique to the Japanese culture. But the shot is very cool.
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They are very, very interesting. I try and capture shots of them whenever I see them.
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I enjoyed looking at those...um...what are they called? 
Nice work as usual.
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It's neither wet or older than the others. It just watching catching the light from the sky the same way.
I honestly have no idea what they are called. There are different boards, called sotoba, which sit behind the actual family grave stone. But these are definitely different.
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