Outdoor Photography of Japan, August 2011

This is Page 5 of 5 - the best of July 2011!
posted: July 31st, 2011

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This page begins at 4:29 AM on July 17th - going home day from Oze National Park. Then we'll go to Jindai Botanical Garden on July 23rd and that will be all for this month. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin July 17th

This first photo was taken at 4:29 AM on the 17th. Kazuya went a little ways out into the marsh while I made the hot water for coffee and got breakfast started. All 3 of these shots show the full moon over Mt. Shibutsu. The 2nd shot was taken at 4:30 AM and the 3rd shot was taken at 4:32 AM.

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Here is a final shot of the full moon over Mt. Shibutsu - it was taken at 4:36 AM. The 2nd shot is looking towards the opposite direction - the east - and Mt. Hiuchigatake. It was taken at 4:43 AM. The 3rd shot shows the actual rising sun and it was taken at 5:11 AM.

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These 2 shots of sun rays through the trees were taken at 7:01 AM as we hiked out to the bus stop at Hatomachi. Of course we had eaten our breakfast and packed our backpacks and we were now headed for home.

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End July 17th, Begin July 23rd

On July 23rd we went to Jindai Botanical Garden on our bicycles to check out what flowers were blossoming. First we went to the Aquatic portion of the Botanical Garden. We were amazed to find so much Lythrum anceps in bloom. It must be a good year for this species to flower - we have never seen so much of it before.

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We are still in the Aquatic portion of the Botanical Garden and we found these Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) plants in bloom. Nice, eh!

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Now we are in the main portion of the Botanical Garden. The 1st and 2nd shots show you examples of Cymbidium nipponicum - an Orchid. This is a saprophyte on various tree roots. I show you photos of this Orchid every year at some point during the summer. After all the photos we have taken of this species we STILL do not have a PERFECT photo of it. There is a nice photo of it on page 158 of our book "Outdoor Photography of Japan: Through the Seasons". The 3rd shot is a mountain lily - Lilium auratum. In another couple of weeks these will be in evidence at our local mountain haunts too, so you'll probably see several shots of them next month. These flowers have such a powerful fragrance that the air is filled with their beautiful scent for a long ways around these blooms.

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End July 23rd, End Page 5, End July 2011's Photos

Here are links to separate web pages - all of them will open in a new window (or new tab). The first link shows some photos of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our Sharp Aquos TV. The 2nd link shows our entire DVD collection in DVD Profiler (if you're asking yourself what might be good to rent for the weekend). The DVD's will be sorted by date purchased. You can click on the "Title" Column to sort that way if you desire. The 3rd link shows our entire DVD collection in php DVD Profiler, which is much more sophisticated than the plain vanilla DVD Profiler just above it. The 4th link takes you to a set of pages which show you the FRONT cover-art of our entire DVD collection.

February 22, 2009 - DVD Collection & Home Theater System

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Please note that our book has been completed and is available for sale. Here is a 64 page SAMPLE PDF file (new window). Note that it is 5.1 MB in size!! I suggest that you right click on the link and select "Save Link As". Then after it's downloaded to your Hard Drive in a place where you can find it again, open it in Adobe Reader - version 9 or later (very important - it most likely will not open in a version earlier than 9). The best way to use Acrobat Reader to see what it really looks like is to choose "View", "Page Display", "Two-Up Continuous" and also "Show Cover Page During Two-Up" and that way you'll see it exactly as the book will appear in print (odd numbered pages on the right and even numbered pages on the left).

Here is the front and rear cover of Daniel & Kazuya's Outdoor Photography of Japan: Through the Seasons.

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