More photos of kanji

When I was in Japan, I found an old Orihon, a Japanese book which is one long sheet of paper folded over to make pages. It's not worth anything: it cost 100 yen (about 70p) in a second hand bookshop and is very battered and worn, but I think it's quite pretty. The damage caused by paper-eating insects just adds to the charm.

My Icemen

Two men have appeared in the ice and snow outside my window. First, on the back of the wave of ice I posted about yesterday, is a man in a hat and cloak, with his arms in the air. He seems quite happy.

Next, in the patterns of ice melting down my window, is this image of a man with a walking stick next to a crooked tree.

Wave outside my window

Today, outside my kitchen window, I saw that some ice and snow had formed into the shape of a wave, complete with drop of water frozen mid-fall.

My Snowman

Last Kanji and Decay

More kanji and further decay

Kanji and decay

While walking around Japan and taking photos, I've become interested in occasions where kanji characters have become aged or distorted by natural processes. Perhaps something to do with it being a means of communication which, still, seems impenetrable to me which also has to get past an extra hurdle of the passage of time or the transience of materials.

Another sky snail

After my previous photo of a snail in the sky, another one appeared today.

Kimberley uses Copydex

Last weekend, I found a bunch of old photgraphs from my time at Stevenage College. While they brought back a few memories, there was only one photo that I liked as a photograph in its own right.

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I went into Badock's Wood this morning, and found that the river had made some Andy Goldsworthy type shapes with fallen leaves.

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This is still not a photo blog

Still not writing much, but potato drain is still potatoey.

This is not a photo blog

I hardly wrote anything this week. I did, however, find a drain with potatoes in it.