More from the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The taiko drummers are always the hit of the show. St. Louis Osuwa Taiko are the superb local practitioners. This art has has thunder and drive but the polyrhythms can be maddeningly complex. I sat there trying to count the out the beats, like listening to something by Steve Reich, and just couldn't keep up. Part of the problem may have been that I was trying to shoot pictures at the same time.
Big, dumb me: I had all my equipment ready to go for yesterday, parked the car near the garden and then remembered that the batteries for my DSLRs were still in the chargers, plugged in at home. Fortunately, Carolyn had my little Canon G11 in her shoulder bag, which she used in Ireland. As someone said, the best camera is the one you have with you.
Big, dumb me: I had all my equipment ready to go for yesterday, parked the car near the garden and then remembered that the batteries for my DSLRs were still in the chargers, plugged in at home. Fortunately, Carolyn had my little Canon G11 in her shoulder bag, which she used in Ireland. As someone said, the best camera is the one you have with you.
Here's a little iPhone video of part of the performance:
