NIKON D5100 (32mm, f/4.8, 1/10 sec, ISO100)
East Pyne Hall.

My mom is visiting from Florida. I wanted to take her into Princeton. She’s visited several times over the years but I’ve never taken her on a tour of Princeton University. The weather wasn’t great ( it was a wet 68ºC outside ) but we the weekend weather forecast wasn’t much better. I took my camera — just in case I found something interesting. I didn’t have high hopes since I have walked the Princeton University campus before.

We parked in the Spring Street deck and walked up Tulane to Nassau and entered the campus near the Firestone Library. I took several shots of the trees along Nassau but the green of the ivy on Pyne Hall caught my eye. I took several shots; some wide and some zoomed in. This one felt right to me.

The final image is an HDR from three images brackets at ±1 and tone-mapped in Photomatix Pro. It wasn’t until after I had processed the images that I realized that I had shot my whole set in JPG with my D5100 set to FINE. That was the setting I had used last weekend while running a photo-booth at a martial arts tournament. I think the results might have been better if I had RAW images.

NIKON D5100 (30mm, f/4.5, 1/320 sec, ISO1600)

NIKON D5100 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/30 sec, ISO100)

NIKON D5100 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/40 sec, ISO100)

NIKON D5100 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/80 sec, ISO500)

NIKON D5100 (18mm, f/3.5, 1/25 sec, ISO100)

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The restaurant has been in business for eight months but this was my first time ordering from Midori. My sister-in-law orders from Midori a lot. It’s interesting that she finds new restaurants in our town before we do. I guess we don’t eat out often.

I stopped in just after I finished up my business at the bank. It was close to lunch time and wanted to treat myself. A mini celebration of sorts. I had just won a 7 month contract with a major client. So I ordered three rolls — spicy tuna, spicy salmon and an avocado roll.

I chatted a bit with the guy who took my order. Unlike most restaurant in the area Midori does delivery and takes orders online. Online orders get a 10% discount.

NIKON D5100 (29mm, f/4.5, 1/200 sec, ISO2000)

My meal was packaged in a simple but hefty brown paper bag. As I mentioned I don’t order take out often but I think this bag is better than most I’ve seen.

The restaurant provided ample amounts of soy sauce , wasabi and ginger. My meal also included a cup of miso soup. I didn’t order the soup but it was a nice surprise.

The spicy tuna and salmon wasn’t as spicy as I had hoped. The restaurant is probably catering to the typically bland North American palate.

NIKON D5100 (32mm, f/4.8, 1/200 sec, ISO2000)

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NIKON D5100 (50mm, f/5.6, 1/100 sec, ISO2000)

I’m trying something new. I wanted something unusual. Something that local roaster doesn’t carry. The scent of the Rwanda Mutovu roasted beans reminded me of milk chocolate. I may do this once in a while as a treat.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’Jim Carrey

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