The other day I read [this great post](https://ecency.com/hive-105425/@koto-art/asian-heritage-month-online-origami-workshop-english-and-japanese) from @koto-art in which she talked about teaching some origami at a local school.

It reminded me of when I first learned origami long ago. 

As I commented on her post:

> I remember when I was in 3rd grade we had a Japanese lady visit our class and she taught us origami. I don't remember why she visited—I don't know if we have an Asian Heritage day or month in America—but I remember I was so amazed that it was possible to fold such interesting things with paper! For the rest of my elementary school days, I learned as many origami models as I could. In those days origami books weren't common and of course this was long before the internet, so I learned new models slowly. I remember in the 5th grade there was a Japanese student who came—his parents were foreign students at the local university—and I picked his brain for as many origami models as he could teach me.

These days I don't do much in the way of learning new folds or models, but I still enjoy folding the ones I learned long ago. Her post reminded me of a photo project I did a few years ago where I folded 1000 paper cranes (which is a special number of cranes in Japan) and took photos of all of them in various places. 

Here are a few photos from that series. 

Maybe I'll post more from this series in the future. Or maybe I'll do a sequel to this project sometime. Anyway, this is all for now. Enjoy!

<center>![b_w_orizuru.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmRsGkgRvSE88ccnXM3eM6QQbcVFm2yobH4ooDmgPapwCJ/b_w_orizuru.jpg)
<sup>Lost in the Mist (I suppose)</sup></center>

<center>![orizuru_and_money.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQbrTXwWsEjNU8UPL7da65VmHPKsSJj5oyFsjP9UezBer/orizuru_and_money.jpg)
<sup>Not many know, but paper cranes love money</sup></center>

<center>![orizuru_and_komainu.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQT2NBBna6ShzAGgpzMnVKcaaLyd3PJrXgFos57eCnTLV/orizuru_and_komainu.jpg)
<sup>The komainu (stone lion-dog) was protecting her</sup></center>

<center>![orizuru_and_butterfly.jpg](https://images.ecency.com/DQmf6wuai8LzGm4aiWj7y9mgaXkyjqgebTMKnZy9kkQ1mfp/orizuru_and_butterfly.jpg)
<sup>Looks like he found a friend</sup></center>

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<td><a href="https://hive.blog/about/@dbooster/about-david-laspina-v1-2">David LaSpina</a> is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku.</td>
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