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• More Hiroko Sato faces

  Friday, Feb 5, 2010 4:49PM / Standard Album
  8 pictures / 462 views / 1 comment

  A few that I had missed.
  New Web Site
  

• Faces from FRIDAY magazine

  Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 4:22PM / Standard Album
  8 pictures / 495 views / 3 comments

  Faces of Hiroko Sato from the Godansha magazine FRIDAY dated the 30th October 2009.
  
  3 new photos published in 2010.
  

• Hiroko Sato - Game Action

  Sunday, Oct 4, 2009 7:58AM / Standard Album
  10 pictures / 616 views

  Hiroko Sato starring in the new GAME☆ACTION movie produced by Wild Strawberry.
  
  http://www.wild-strawberry.com/ws/game/
  
  Note that photos are included in this blog under "Fair Usage" legislation in the US and similar jurisdictions around the world. They are used in this blog wholly, solely and exclusively to promote the actress Hiroko Sato.
  
  The owners of the images are respectively,
  
  1. Wild Strawberry
  2. Yahoo
  3. Mainichi
  4. Lawson Ticket
  

• Hiroko Television

  Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 5:25PM / Standard Album
  1 picture / 393 views

  these are a collection of stills from a mini movie that Hiroko Sato did at 20 years of age. It was released with her single "Can't Hide on DVD and in "Hiroko Television" she plays every role in the television station.

• Faces of a Japanese Idol

  Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 7:43AM / Standard Album
  17 pictures / 568 views / 2 comments

  Hiroko Sato, the consumate professional Japanese Idol.

• Hiroko Sato's 1st Photobook Peeka Boo

  Monday, Sep 28, 2009 5:27PM / Standard Album
  14 pictures / 1022 views

  Hiroko Sato's 1st photo book "Peeka Boo". A consumate professional at 17 years of age. The photographer is Kenjii Wakasugi.

• Hiroko Sato Faces from "I Hold Nothing"

  Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009 10:04PM / Standard Album
  11 pictures / 588 views / 1 comment

  Still photos from the Movie "I Hold Nothing".

• Hiroko Sato PORTRAIT photos

  Friday, Aug 28, 2009 7:24PM / Standard Album
  20 pictures / 1094 views

  Faces of Hiroko Sato from her last photobook PORTRAIT.
  
  A makeup free natural Hiroko Sato.
  

• Hiroko Sato. FACES

  Saturday, Aug 15, 2009 9:44PM / Standard Album
  33 pictures / 432 views / 2 comments

  The faces of an actress.

• Old photo from China

  Thursday, Aug 13, 2009 10:06PM / Standard Album
  2 pictures / 164 views / 2 comments

  This is an old photo taken before 1900 that was on the China View news site. I have used it as an example of repairing an old photo that had a lot of mechanical damage in terms of holes and scratches.
  
  I don't know who the young woman was, where it was taken or even when it was taken but it is a good eye back into old China in the 19th century.
  

• Photo For Felicia

  Saturday, Aug 1, 2009 10:02PM / Standard Album
  1 picture / 45 views / 2 comments

  When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This cashes out as follows.
  
  1. Never Give Up ! (Like the photo)
  2. Nil Illigitimus carborundum desperandum. (Don't let the b*stards grind you down)
  3. The world belongs to the persistent.
  4. Show your enemies the victory of Phyrus. (They lose more than they gain).
  5. If at first you don't succeed, ph*k them, lets get serious.
  6. Never lose your sense of humour.
  7. Cynicism is a virtue, it won't kill you but you will take it with you.
  8. If all else fails, stop messing around and put in the boot.
  9. ------
  

• Old family photos

  Friday, Jul 31, 2009 4:38AM / Standard Album
  6 pictures / 85 views / 1 comment

  I had most of these photos handy but obtained a high resolution scan of my great grandparents recently that was a lot better than the one I had.
  
  The 1st photo is a cropped part of the shipping record of a sailing ship called the "Almora" that my descendents came to Australia on. They wree three orphan sons brought from Cambridgeshire in England by their grandfather and landed in melbourne in January 1855..
  
  The second is a photo of my great grand parents taken in 1874 at Mount Gambier in South Australia shortly after the birth of their 16th child (my grandfather). The father died the next year and his wife had her 17th child after his death. She lived until 1925.
  
  The third is my grandparents taken in Western Australia in 1915. (Oliver and Bessie)
  
  The 4th is my grandfather Oliver and his two sons, Ron and Terry (my dad) taken in 1922 in Freemantle in Western Australia. Oliver sent it to his younger brother as a Christmas card.
  
  The 4th is my parents a day after they were married at Circular Quay in Sydney.
  
  The 5th is my dad on a dispatch motorbike before he broke his leg on one the first time. My mum's writing dates the photo at 1942. He broke the same leg a second time on another motorbike in the Solomon Islands after a hand grenade went off under his bike.
  
  

• Miniature Spring Flowers

  Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 9:19AM / Standard Album
  17 pictures / 61 views

  For the tech head thse phtos of miniature flowers are shot with a "Pentax istDS" using an original analog era Pentax 28 - 80 zoom lense which on a digital camera is effectively a 50 - 120 zoom.
  
  The flowers are shot using the "macro" capacity of the lense with a appature setting of F8 to get the necessary field depth with the occasional use of fill flash.
  
  Most of these flowers are in the 10 to 15 millimetre size range and would not be noticed unless you were looking for them.
  

• More Boys Toys.

  Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 5:37PM / Standard Album
  5 pictures / 53 views / 2 comments

  The girls will hate this stuff, a miniature machine shop for making tiny precision things that I need and the added capacity to sharpen everything in the house that ever needed resharpening.
  
  The lathe is a miniature precision tool for turning really tiny metal parts, the drill with the compound slide is for accurate properly aligned holes, the linisher is a general purpose very useful tool, the buffer is for polishing anything I need that requires a professional finish and the white grinding wheel is for sharpening hardened tool steel.
  

• Country Australia Scenes

  Sunday, Jul 5, 2009 12:32PM / Standard Album
  3 pictures / 54 views

  These photos were taken in late 2005 on a friend's property in inland Queensland in Australia. They were taken in over 40c heat during a drought. Australian scenery is not soft and green lke much of the rest of the world, it is stark and a darker olive green. This area was far enough inland to be poor soil for growing commercial crops and was mainly cattle country.
  
  The first photo is the view looking out the front gate of the property and even in the heat the "feel" of the land was present.
  
  The second photo is taken in a creek bed towards the rear of the property and while the creek is bone dry as is common in droughts, it retains the characteristic energy that was well understood by the indiginous "kouri" culture of Australia. The phenomenon is best experienced in a pair of stubbies, a T shirt and an Akubra hat so you don't fry your brains in the 40 degree plus heat.
  
  The fence photo is classic Australian country landscape, the trees have signs of a recent bushfire (Australian bushland is purified by fire), a dividing fence with wooden posts and barbed wire for cattle control and the land is very depleted due to drought. The property on the right was owned by a goat breeder and was still suitable to graze goats in the drought.
  

• Sydney Harbour

  Sunday, Jul 5, 2009 12:14PM / Standard Album
  4 pictures / 57 views

  The four photos are of Sydney Harbour taken in 2005. The catermaran is travelling reasonably fast as is common for race sailing boats on the harbour.
  
  The "old coat hanger" (Sydney Harbour Bridge) is shot twice with the opera house to the left. For the technical the very bright one could not have been taken with analogue film because of its contrast range, it was shot with a digital Pentax camera.
  
  The stone fortress on the island in Sydney Harbour is formally known as Fort Dennison but is commonly known by its original convict name "Pinchgut" as it was a special prison in the convict era where convicts who tried to escape risked being eaten by sharks.
  

• Street flowers near where I live in Sydney

  Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:35PM / Standard Album
  4 pictures / 70 views / 1 comment

  The flowers are from my front street except the yellow cactus flower which flowers on a cactus in my back yard. Its nick name is "Hairy Legs" because it is hairy but not prickly. It is relatively rare but the cactus appears to like its location and has flowered for the last few years. The flower only last for about 2 days.

• My 6 litre 1972 boy's toy XA GT Ford Falcon

  Monday, May 11, 2009 3:43PM / Standard Album
  1 picture / 205 views

  The car is a 6 litre Ford V8 that was one of  a production run of 200 to qualify as a production car for the Mount Panorama race at Bathurst in 1973. The race was won by Allan Moffit driving this model XA GT Falcon coupe.
  
  This car was rebuilt in 1996 very close to standard specifications but with minor modifications, radiator from a later XC model for larger capacity, "Top Loader" gear box from an XW model GT Falcon and its original "Detroit Locker" differential.
  
  Vehicle has 4 wheel disk brakes, 12 inch by one and one quarter cast iron ventilated disks and the wheels are an original set of "Hotwire" wheels made for this model in 1973 for Bathurst. Tires are Bridgestone 245 x 50 x 14 front and 265 x 50 x 14 rear.
  
  Not for the faint of heart, drives like a 1.5 ton truck but joins long distance capital cities in Australia with an ease and elegance that toy cars don't have.