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posted: July 31st, 2014 |
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This page continues July 12th (at 1:18 PM) at Oze National Park and finishes the day. It then goes part way through the morning of July 13th as we hike towards Ozenuma (Oze Pond), on the east side of Oze National Park. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| July 12th Continues from Page 1 (at 1:18 PM) |
As stated in the overall comment on this page, we continue July 12th, from 1:18 PM with the first shot. In all 3 shots in this row you can see Mt. Hiuchigatake. In the 3rd shot it is hiding rather well behind a Hemerocallis dumortieri var. esculenta. If you are following along on the map - we are well out into the marsh now.
Here is another link to the large version of an Oze National Park Area Map, which will open in a new window or tab. You can refer to it when you see place names while reading through the row text. CLICK FOR MAP (new window or tab). Our route is shown on it with red arrows and the arrowheads indicate our direction of travel. On July 12th we hiked from Hatomachi Pass to Ozegahara. On July 13th we hiked from Ozegahara to O-Shi-mizu. |
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The first shot here was taken looking back at Mt. Shibutsu, the 2nd shot looks ahead towards Mt. Hiuchigatake and the 3rd shot again looks back towards Mt. Shibutsu. The clouds are getting quite nice, wouldn't you say?
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Here's Mt. Hiuchigatake with some very nice clouds and then an overview shot of a virtual forest of the Eleorchis japonica orchid. Every red colored flower is an orchid flower!
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Here is a single shot of a Cranberry flower (Vaccinium oxycoccos). The 2nd image is a small portion cropped out of the first shot.
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Here are 2 shots of Mt. Hiuchigatake. The 2nd is actually a 2-shot panorama and the clouds are very nice. Ahead is Ozegahara - the campground there is our destination for today (see map).
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These 2 images show a single shot of the Pogonia japonica orchid - the 2nd image is a cropped out portion of the first photo. At this point we have set up our tent and shed our backpacks and are just hiking around with our cameras and a waterbottle shooting photos on that trail that heads off in a generally north-northwest direction from Ozegahara (see map).
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In first position in this row is that 2nd shot of the Red Dragonfly (Nannophya pygmaea) which we promised on page 1. In center position is a shot of Menyanthes trifoliata - the only one which we saw - is it rare, should we have taken several more shots of it? The 3rd shot shows Eriophorum gracile - a different species of Cottongrass.
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Here are 3 shots of the Dactylorhiza aristata orchid. Note the color differences.
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In this row, the first shot is looking way back at Mt. Shibutsu. The 2nd and 3rd shots show a specimen of Drosera rotundifolia - Sundew - an insectivorous plant. There were thousands of these, and also another species of it, but not many were close enough to the boardwalk to get photos of. This one, however, was growing so CLOSE to the boardwalk that it was difficult to get photos of!
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Here is another example of the Pogonia japonica orchid and then a much closer shot of Mt. Hiuchigatake.
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We saw a few specimens of this violet - Viola verecunda f. violacens - but not many of our shots came out good - here is one which is okay, not great, but okay. The 2nd image is another Tone-mapped image created from 3 exposure-bracketed shots of Mt. Hiuchigatake. The sun is getting low in the sky now. The time is 6:37 PM, our tent is already set up in the Ozegahara campground behind this inn, supper is already eaten and we are searching for a nice sunset scene - it has gotten cloudy enough, though, so that are no sunset colors at all. Oh well, such is life. We had a beautiful day and got sunburned. And that ends July 12, 2014.
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Now it's July 13 - we begin a new day. We cooked and ate our breakfast, took down the tent and packed it up, stuffed our sleeping bags and were ready to leave the campground at 5:50 AM. These photos were taken around 6:35 AM. This is Yoania japonica. You may recall that last month we showed you a different species of the Yoania orchid - that one was Yoania amagiensis. This is a pink hued species of that genus. We had never seen this before this morning, so we took a lot of shots of it.
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Here are 3 more examples of the Yoania japonica orchid, well actually only 2 because the 3rd image is a cropped out portion of the center photo.
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Now we are getting closer to Ozenuma (Oze Pond), way down at the eastern end of Oze National Park (see map). Here is another big "field" of Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum). The center image was actually the first photo of the day, but it is out of chronological order so that all of the Yoania images could be displayed together and it is in the center of this row for portrait/landscape mode balance. It shows Kazuya hiking on the boardwalk at 6:20 AM, 15 minutes before we stumbled upon the Yoania plant. The 3rd shot shows some very late flowers of the Lysichiton camtschatcense species of Skunk Cabbage. Earlier in the season Oze Marsh is famous for this species, but now, in July, it is finished blooming - except for these few plants!
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Oh my! Just look at the Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum)! Of course that's Kazuya in the 2nd shot.
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It should be obvious that the first 2 shots in this row were taken specifically for the reflection. They came out very nice I think. That center photo was a runner-up for Favorite Photo of the Month (on this month's Index Page) and you can find a larger version of it on the "Special Items" page (link at bottom of page). The 3rd shot is another species of Iris - this is Iris setosa. We still have not arrived at Ozenuma (Oze Pond), but this page is now going to end. Please continue on to page 3, which will begin at 7:24 AM.
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Here is a smaller version of the map to which we linked to in the Row Text way up in Row 1. If you have not yet looked at the map, then you have no idea where anything is in relation to the other stuff, sorry.
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| Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this page. Now, please go on to Page 3 for the continuation and conclusion of July 13th in Oze National Park. |
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