Join me on a photo walk on a hiking trail at Ubara Utopia in Katsuura, Chiba, Japan, where we enjoy some seascape photography. 千葉県勝浦市の「鵜原理想郷」の風景写真撮影を楽しまし��う!
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🌟 Highlights:
Quarry at Kedoura Inlet
毛戸浦の採石場
Pentax K-1 II + DFA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6
CP + 10-stop ND filter
63 mm ISO 100 for 3.0 sec. at ƒ/6.3
https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20240710-cliffs
Dale-chan the Border Collie
愛犬の「デールちゃん」
Pentax K-1 II + DFA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6
63 mm ISO 100 for 1/80 sec. at ƒ/9.0
https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20240710-border
Kedoura Inlet・沿岸の宝物「毛戸浦」
Pentax K-1 II + DFA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6
63 mm ISO 100 for 1/320 sec. at ƒ/5
https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20240710-cove
Before I forget: I was listening to an Isle of Dogs reaction during work and it suddenly bothered me that Spots had those military-grade false teeth he fires as projectiles. It scanned as an inversion of the cyanide capsule concealed in a false tooth and gave the whole scene an air of distortion. It makes me question whether Professor Watanabe's poisoning by the regime was in fact the suicide it was misrepresented to be -- such that Tracy's question "Why'd you do it?" isn't just dramatic irony (Oh man when will she find out he didn't do it!) but a legitimate question posed to the audience. The example of Spots suggests that the suicide was an attack: under house arrest and unable to affect change, the Professor kills himself in a manner designed to inflame suspicion of the regime? Framing them for his own death...
Suicide seems to bookend the movie, in a looser sense... I'm getting the impression that the island (where the diseased go) represents the underworld, such that the opening declaration that the samurai shall turn his back on mankind (in solidarity with dogs) becomes a turning towards death. Likewise the reincarnated samurai ultimately marries the girl whose afro resembles the bead of poison wasabi that killed the professor? So the first and final moments of triumph seem undergirded by a melancholic turn towards death.