While waiting for Milky Way core showing up, I took the opportunity to take star trails photo. Having tried twice before gave me a little more comfort to get it right.

The photo was stacked by 140 images with a blur effect.

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After two weeks of travelling in Japan, I finally back online at Flickr.

Omoide Yokocho in Shinjuku, Tokyo is a warren of small alleys crammed with izakaya-type restaurants appealing to many visitors at night. Surrounded by skyscrapers, this tiny alley was packed with people dinning at the small restaurants.

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The fireworks display was held at Middletown, MD, as kicking off its Independence Day celebration.

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Otaru (小樽) is a port city in Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo. The city is known for glassworks, music boxes and sake distilleries. The Snow Light Path Festival along its romantic Otaru Canal is a big attraction to tourists in winter time.

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During the Otaru Snow Light Path Festival, the most interesting attraction was the lights all over every section of the canal, as if the stars falling from sky.

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