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posted: June 30th, 2007 |
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The photos on this page continue with June 23rd and go through the end of the month - a trip to and camp-out at Mt. Hinode. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin June 23rd |
On June 23rd Kazuya and I climbed Mt. Mitake (929 meters = 3,048 feet), ate our lunch there and then continued on to Mt. Hinode (902 meters = 2,959 feet). The first 2 shots in this row show Mt. Hinode from the place where we ate lunch on Mt. Mitake. It's not as far away as it looks actually. Oh, by the way, the 2nd shot is merely a telephoto shot - taken from the same place as the 1st photo. The 3rd photo is an Aquilegea sp. flower.
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The first shot here is Kazuya at the summit of Mt. Hinode - the sign says the name of the mountain and the elevation. The 2nd shot was taken looking to the east - that's the shadow of the mountain we are standing on. The 3rd shot was taken as we got closer to sunset time.
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The first shot is getting closer to sunset - it was not a spectacular sunset, but not disappointing either. The 2nd shot is the summit shelter - an 8 second exposure. That's Tokyo down there in the valley. You saw a photo of this shelter 3 years and 1 month ago - with the June 2004 photos. Click HERE to see that night's photo.
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Now we come up to sunrise time on June 24th. We awoke at 4:20 AM and rushed to get out of the tent and back to the summit (we were only camped 1 minute below the summit, so that was easy). The first shot here was taken at 4:25 AM. The 2nd shot was taken at 4:26 AM and the 3rd shot was taken at 4:27 AM. An AMAZING sunrise!
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Still sunrise time. The 1st shot here was at 4:29 AM, the 2nd shot - with some nice crepuscular rays - at 4:30 AM and the 3rd photo was shot at 4:33 AM.
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Here is Kazuya at 4:40 AM - I did nothing to retouch this photo - that's how red the light actually was! The 2nd shot here is 4:44 AM, less than 20 minutes after the light show started it's pretty much finished. The 3rd shot is a collage of the 4 best sunrise shots and you can find a larger JPG file of this image HERE (453 KB).
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Here are 2 shots of Saxifraga stolinifera - both of them are the same spot, the first one with telephoto. You saw these flowers last month too, but these 2 shots show how thick they can grow.
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Kazuya didn't get his photos labeled until later, so I included his in the next 3 rows. He made it out of the tent and to the summit of the mountain a couple of minutes before I did, so his picture series starts a bit earlier than mine. The ones in this row were all shot before sunrise, around 4:23 - 4:25 AM.
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Here comes the sun!! It was 4:25 to 4:27 AM.
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This final one in the series shows the sun about 1/2 way above the horizon - 4:27 AM. The final shot is a nice one of the upper falls of White Rock Waterfall. Although we have been to the lower part of this waterfall several times, we never even knew that there was a trail which goes to a whole series of upper waterfalls. We discovered a new trail on the map (one we'd never hiked before) to go down from Mt. Hinode and took that trail! Much to our surprise this was ONE of the upper waterfalls which we found. It was still only 8:20 AM, so pretty dark under the forest canopy - difficult photo shooting conditions.
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| End June 24th, End Page 2, End June 2007's Photos |
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