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梅を見に梅まつりの成田山新勝寺に行ってきましたがご覧のように
梅の花はまだまだ満開にはおよそ遠いものでした。
今年は若干本格的な開花が遅いと思います。
梅まつりも中日だったと思いますがまだまだ花も少なく梅の花は寂しい様子でした。
ズームを効かせて花を大きく撮影し、さも花が多く付いているように見せるようにしました。
案外紹介されることの少ない新勝寺の梅の花をたっぷり撮影してこの動画で紹介することを狙っていましたが
ほとんどこの一帯の観光案内のような動画になってしまいました。
今年の新勝寺のうめはうまくすると３月の１０日あたりが満開なんじゃないでしょうか。

Today on February 28th,I visited Naritasan-Shinshoji temple in Narita city,Chiba prefecture.
I visited there on January 4th once for Hatsumoude(初詣）activity.
The main purpose to visit there today is to see flowers of Plum trees known as Ume（梅).
This flower is as popular as Cherry blossom known as Sakura in Japan.
It is regarded as one of typical sign of spring season.
But this time,it’s to early to visit there to see plum flowers as you see in this movie.
Many of flowers on the trees and their branches don’t bloom yet then.
So I tried to capture them zooming up as if lots of flowers have already bloomed on the tree.
This movie originally aimed at shooting flowers of plum but it became almost a rough guide about the temple.
I think this temple and frontal towns are wonderful.
It is my great pleasure if I can you tell attractiveness this place has
by this movie.

BGM
LILIA 組曲
LILIA suite
Copyrights belong to Nihon Falcom Co Ltd.
©日本ファルコム社

前から来てみたいと思っていた東京ゲートブリッジに初めて訪れました。
なかなかの威容で本当に来て良かったと思います。
日没前後で集まる人の様子がガラッと変わります。明るいうちは釣り客の大勢いるところですが、日が暮れるとカメラマンの楽園になり釣竿が三脚に鮮やかに変わります。
大変良いところですがくるのがかなり面倒なアクセスの悪いところでりんかい線の新木場駅で降りて、一番バス乗り場で若洲キャンプ場前（折り返し地点）で降りて歩く、これしかありません。
車で直にくるのが一番楽だと思いますが、公共交通ではかなり面倒くさいこれしか方法がないのでやや行き方がわかりにくいと思います。
事実上この江東区立若洲公園以外にまともに見れる場所、写真や動画にして絵になる場所はおそらくないと思われます。

I visited Tokyo Gate Bridge for the first time on October 30th.
It is a bit hard to understand how to go to the best location to view this bridge.
The conclusion is the best place is Wakasu koen Park founded by Koto ward but the way of going there is a bit complicated.
It doesn't take so long and cost so much but the route is actually a bit boring.
If you want to go there, at first you have to get a train on Rinkai(りんかい線 means Seaside line) railway line and get off at Shin Kiba station(新木場駅 )in Koto ward and then get bus at Number 1 bus stop in front of Shin Kiba station and You have to get off the bus at the bus stop named Wakasu camping field.(若洲キャンプ場前）
We can see the impressive figure of Tokyo Gate Bridge from Wakasu koen park(Beachside place of Wakasu Camping field)
and before the sunset this place is a sort of paradise for fishers and
we can see lots of fishing rods along the sea and after getting dark,this place becomes a paradise of cameramen like me and we can see lots of tripods on behalf of them.
I could enjoy viewing the bridge and shooting it.
The figure appears at twilight and the night is so impressive and attractive a great deal and let me hope to go there again later.

BGM 日本ファルコム©
Ys Originより
Believing
To the next generation

池上本門寺で新年を迎えましたが、屋台が少なくなっており
参道を広くしていました。
除夜の鐘がなって新年の訪れる瞬間を今年も体感できてなかなか幸せです。
五重塔ごしに月が出ており大変印象的だったので撮影してきましたが大変美しい。
今回オーディオの方で若干の加工をしており、BGMを環境を目立たせる場面では部分的に小さくしております。
BGMを終始小さくするのではなく、部分的にのみ小さくしました。
I stay in Ikegami Honmonji temple about the time when new year comes.
In Japan,we have a custom to hit a large bell hung in a wooden building like a small tower until we finish counting the number 108.
108 is a number of wrong emotions we have like envy or hatred
and hitting bells means to let them go out of our mind at the moment when new year comes,in other words we start a new life.
Many of Japanese people go to a shrine or temple in new year season
to pray to God or Buddha for safe or peace in our life or to beg for blessing of god and this activity called 初詣(Hatsumoude)
This year a number of stalls becomes fewer than previous years
and I found offices of policemen and security guards that I had not seen before.
They make the way to the main hall of the temple wider and safer
for people who visit on new year's day.
I found the moon that looks bigger than usual but it is not a full moon,however it is so impressive and beautiful soI decided to shoot it and put it in my movie.
I lowered a volume of soundtrack partly at some part of the movie
which a microphone captured impressive sounds of the bell or voice of monks who read a Buddhism sutras and sounds of drums they were playing along that.

BGM
A new legendary opening
from Ys Origin soundtrack
copyrights Nihon Falcom
日本ファルコム©

DSC-RX10がファームウェアアップデートによってXAVC-Sで撮影できるようになってから始めて60pでの撮影を試みました。
自宅のPCで確認した限り、普段の24pよりは確かに写りもよく
動きもスムーズに感じます。
ダイバーシティの壁も照明がないにもかかわらずその様子が
綺麗に写ってくれており、普段よりノイズも少ないように感じます。
普段は映画的に見えるようにと好んで24pでの撮影を行っていますが、もしかしたら今後60pでの撮影も増えるかもしれません。
審美的に大変写りが綺麗で見ごたえがある。
以前から一度60pで撮影したみたいと思っていたのでやってみましたが、考えていたより良かったです。
実に楽しい。

I captured a projection mapping winter special version
projected on the surface of Gundam statue at Diver City Tokyo
and it was the first time for me to shoot objects in XAVC-S 60p.
I don’t know how YouTube service processes this movie when this movie is uploaded,
as far as I made sure on my PC,it seems more brilliant and its quality is higher than usual,usual means movies that I had uploaded before.
Movement certainly seems smoothly and resolution is a bit better than my movies captured in XAVC-S 24p.
During this projection mapping show,I can see the wall of Diver City Tokyo clearly,of course,it doesn’t seem so bright but I could see outlines of the signs on the wall and
the details even though the wall was not lit by the lights.
I think this experiment was so meaningful.
I captured another event in XAVC-S 60p.
Maybe I continue to shoot something like scenes or objects which move fast
next time in XAVC-S 60p.
This experience was so fresh and fun for me.

以前から長い事来てみたいと思っていた成田山新勝寺に初詣へと思い切ってやってきました。
僕の住んでいる西馬込は浅草線の沿線でうまく車両をつかまえればほとんど成田まで直通ですが
時間にして二時間強、切符は１１００円します。
しかし、さすがにこれは行ってよかったなと思いました。
すごいところです。
経験上ここは参道の商店街と言い、同じ京成線の沿線の葛飾柴又すら大きく凌ぐほどの
極めて優れた観光地だと思います。
関東近縁の方は三が日は無理に勧めませんが初詣にここに来てみることを強くお勧めします。
ここはすごいです。
明治神宮に参拝客の数でやや負けるということですが、はっきり言いますが明治神宮よりこちらの方がより深い感銘を
僕個人は受けました。すごいところです。心底来てよかったと思いました。
ぜひ感動を味わってみてください、これは参りました。
僕個人が訪れた関東の観光名所で間違いなくここが一番です。
初めて知りましたが真言宗智山派の総本山だそうで、その名に恥じない優れた仏教建築で
風格があります。
よく知られているように歌舞伎の成田屋の守護寺とでも言えばいいんでしょうか、
歌舞伎にゆかりのある寺でそういう意味でも非常に興味を引く場所だと思います。
この動画は山門をくぐって以降、カメラブラケットVCT-55LHを使って手持ち撮影をしています。
人出が多い場合に備えて動画撮影の補助のために持っていったものです。
事実上、このテスト撮影を兼ねています。

I visited Naritasan Shinshoji temple on January 4th 2015.
We have a custom called Hatsu moude 初詣 which is mainly to go to Shrine or temple
to wish to be blessed by god or Buddha and often give a little sum of money in to the box
put on the front of main hall or buy ornaments which is in the shape of tools for cleaning
or of arrow and which is believed to bring us fortune.
I had wished to go this temple for a long time but it takes a bit long to go to this place
from the place where I live.
It takes about two hours and costs over one thousand yen if we want to go by train.
But I can go there almost on the straight and direct route from my town Nishimagome by taking
Asakusa metropolitan subway line and then Keisei railway line.
They are connected with each other like almost a single line,so if you take a train which is bound for Narita
on Asakusa subway line, you can go there without changing train.
They share the same single rail way to Aoto（青砥） station and parts of the same rail are called
by two other name due to the areas in which those parts of rails are installed.

Naritasan Shinshoji temple is belong to Shingonsyu(真言宗)which is one of largest branches of
Japanese domestic Buddhism found by Kobo Daishi(弘法大師).
This temple is well known because of relationship with Kabuki(歌舞伎)actors and this temple is
believed to bless and protect the activity of those actors and this group of Kabuki actors
is sometimes called Naritaya（成田屋).
I strongly recommend you to come to this temple and the area around it to have sightseeing or travel
if you can have enough time.
This is most impressive place where I have been to.
This movie is a kind of test shooting of camera bracket VCT-55LT attached to DSC-RX10.