Week 25 has been and gone!
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Off to a flying start
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A couple of shots from my morning commute, where it was a frosty -4.5ºC on the gritted UK roads.
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Autumn is here, it's official. We've had a relatively warm September, and until now, a very (relatively) warm October. On Saturday, everything changed. A huge cold front approaching from the west, covered the whole UK in rain and dropped temperatures by almost 10ºC.
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Spend any length of time in Japan, and you'll see crows. There are hardly any pigeons in all of Tokyo, but there are a few. These big crows rule the roost. Nets are thrown over the bags of rubbish in the mornings, (in a futile attempt) to stop the crows ripping open the bags before the collection people arrive. The crows are loud, and are not easily scared. In fact, I think that the local Japanese people are more scared of the crows than the crows are of them!
At first glance, they're evil looking black birds, but look closer and you'll see very clever animals, with feathers of a deep, midnight purple. I personally like the crows a lot, and will endeavour to take a close-up photo in the near future. Until then, I wanted to share this photo I took just before sunset, of two crows flying rather majestically across the autumn sky.
A Winter Sunset
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A Winter Sunset │ NEX-7 & SEL16F28 & UWA │ 12mm, ISO 500, f/22, 1/60, RAW
A beautiful and warming sunset shone through the corridors this afternoon, so I grabbed the camera and stuck it out of the window. The University of Tokyo has a very distinctive main building, which has featured in a few of my blog posts (mainly on my tumblr).
It doesn't look it, but it was zero most of the day today, with a high of 3°C. The snow from 12 days ago can still be found in little piles here and there. Winter's not over yet!