Unfortunately, I don't have much time right now to upload
the pictures of the wedding, as I have started going back to work and we're
leaving for our honeymoon soon.
I guess I will upload them little by little, and here is another lot of
them.
Among those, some of the few pictures I was able to take myself during nijikai
(二次会), the second party, the rest is again pictures stolen from Fred.
After that, I will also have to take care of all the editing for the video
of the wedding, meaning getting rid of the stupid comments during the shots
;-), deleting scenes, adding some background music, etc.
For that, I'm planning to get Final Cut Express 2, a very affordable Apple
application to make pro-like movies.
That will be my little birthday present :-)
Our wedding finally took place last Saturday in Meiji
Jingu in Tokyo, after more than 6 months of preparation, in a very traditional
Shinto way.
Everything went absolutely well, from the weather, which scared me a little a
few days before to the finest details of Hiroen.
I was a bit nervous about the ceremony a few days before, especially with what I had to read out loud in Japanese, but I had rehearsed so many times and the kimono was so tight that there was no room for anxiety on that day!
As I said, everything went very well, it was fantastic to have all our
friends, relatives and family around us that day.
My family had met Eiko's a few days before so the atmosphere was already very
good.
On the other hand, it was a bit tiresome, with the kimono to wear (especially for Eiko who had to lift hers all the time), changing clothes often, going out for the pictures, etc.
It was definitely worth it, this has to be one of the most beautiful days of our life but we were so tired after that day that the following days were just spending time at home trying to recover!
One regret I have is obviously not to have been able to take the pictures myself, but fortunately, my brother Alain and Fred backed me up and gave me all their pictures.
The one displayed here was taken by my brother during the preparation in the court of the shrine.
Many more will come but I need to process them, which may take some time, especially considering the fact that we are going to leave for our honeymoon next Saturday!
Please be patient!
While I was waiting for the Shinkansen to
Osaka in the station of Tokyo, I noticed this interesting
pillar and thought it'd make an interesting picture.
Notice the bottle of water (50cl at most!), which is supposed to be used in
case of fire!
I can totally picture the person in charge of this platform rush to get the
bottle and try to stop the fire with this ridiculous amount of water!
Anyway, I like the picture for the texture of the rusty pillar and the nice bokeh effect in the background and the mixture of orange and blueish colours.
The flowers had just popped out in
Shinjuku Gyo-en when we got there, last weekend.
I was still early for Hanami, but Eiko and I wanted to enjoy the first days of
nice weather after a series of rainy days.
In spite of this earliness, some of the famous Japanese cherry blossoms (sakura in Japanese) had already popped up, but I'm guessing it will be even more impressive in a few days from now.
I'm only uploading the pictures now because I've been workng on a new gallery application which will enable me to manage the pictures in a much easier and flexible way than I used to do.
I won't have to generate static pages, which tended to take a bit too much space and were obviously difficult to update, incase I wanted to change the look of the gallery or to change the order of the pictures, etc.
This piece of software is very nice, as you will see if you browse the
pictures, but on the other hand, it is a bit slower than static pages and it
is using tables for the layout, instead of a nice css (booo).
Finally, it does not validate the W3C
validator.
On the other hand, the version I'm using (gallery2) is still a beta version
and I'm sure a lot of people are working on fixing those small issues.
If I have some time (and a lot of courage), I may contribute and change some
of the points above by myself.
