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posted: January 31st, 2007 |
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On January 1st, I went to Jindaiji Shrine, near our house, and took a few pictures. On January 5th Kazuya and I climbed Mt. Takao, for the 29th time. On January 6th and 7th Kazuya and I went to Yamanaka Lake and stayed at the Marimo Pension and on January 21st we found the very first spring flowers at Nogawa Park. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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This first shot is Ay-o's rendition of the "Year of the Pig" at Jindaiji Shrine. There is also larger JPG file of this shot; please check it HERE it's 440 KB. The 2nd photo is at Jindaiji Shrine - the crowd of people. It's around noon on January 1st in this photo.
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On January 5th (a vacation day) Kazuya and I climbed Mt. Takao and found some "Frost Flowers". In this row you can find 3 versions of the same photo of "FROST FLOWERS". The first shot is straight from the camera, the 2nd shot has been adjusted using the "Shadows and Highlights" filter of ACD See Pro Photo Manager and the 3rd shot has been cropped tightly for the "flower". The Frost Flowers this year were not as good as they were last year, so we were a bit disappointed. For a review of what we found last year visit December 2005's photos.
By the way, if you want to learn more about frost flowers, a phenomenon which is little understood, then the current state of knowledge about them appears to be most concisely summarized here
(CLICK - will open in new window). Note that the ice is coming OUT OF a plant stem.
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On January 6th we took a bus to Yamanaka Lake and stayed at the Marimo Pension, a place where we have stayed several times in the past 5 years. This first shot shows Kazuya in the "cabin" which we had. It snowed that day. The next 2 shots are on the following day and show what the winds were like. On Mt. Fuji, part of what you see is clouds, but part of it is blowing snow too!
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Another shot of Mt. Fuji, blowing snow and beautiful blue sky, then Kazuya with a Mt. Fuji background. The 3rd shot is a tree heavily infested with mistletoe.
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A photo of Mt. Myoujin, a place we have camped out on (see September 2005's photos). The 2nd and 3rd shots are a pair of swans on Yamanaka Lake. They are the same photo, the 3rd one is cropped.
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Two final photos of Mt. Fuji. As you can see, the 2nd shot is getting pretty close to sunset time.
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| End January 6th & 7th, Begin Miscellaneous Collages |
"Four Views of Mt. Fuji" - from different dates and places put together into a collage. There is also a larger JPG file of this collage; please check it HERE it's 475 KB. This is the background image for the "Special Items" Page. The 2nd photo is "Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall" - a collage created for the background image of the new and improved home page. There is also a larger JPG file of this collage; you can view it HERE it's 902 KB.
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On January 21st we bicycled to Nogawa Park and looked around. We found the very first Spring Flowers - Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Setsubun-sou in Japanese). There are not as many this year as there usually are, probably due to our rather strange weather all this winter. The 2nd shot is the same photo - cropped and the "Line Drawing" Special Effect used on it. The 3rd shot is, again, the same shot with the "Contour Lines" special Effect used on it.
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On January 27th Kazuya and I went to Koremasa and we were able to watch the sun as it set over Mt. Fuji - these 3 shots were taken about 40 seconds apart, note the NOT so subtle differences!
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