Trimming the fat

I had a clean up of my Flickr account which had exceeded 800 items. There's no way that I've taken 800 photos good enough to showcase in public so I cropped around 100 from that number with more work to do. What I found was that the vast majority of the cull came from my earlier photos. Hopefully that's a sign that I'm improving and the standard of more recent efforts is superior.

As a case in point, here's another HDR attempt from the recent Tokyo trip. New Year is a big event for Japan and tied to the native shinto religion. Senso-ji, the 2nd largest shinto shrine in the capital, therefore, was crowded such that police were deployed to direct the crowds. This makes photography awkward, especially when you're outside of said crowds but I still managed to get this HDR shot with passable composition by shooting over them.