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posted: October 31st, 2010 |
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This page continues October 22nd at Sengoku-Kogen and a few more Susuki Grass (Miscanthus sinensis) photos. Then it proceeds to October 23rd - our final day in the Hakone area. That ends the photos from October. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| October 22nd Continues From Page 2 |
Here is 1 photo of the Sengoku-Kogen Susuki Grass Field (Miscanthus sinensis). The 2nd photo is an amazingly pink Thistle Flower. Nothing has been done to this photo to enhance the color - it was an amazing color. The 3rd photo is one more of the Susuki Grass.
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Here are 2 more photos at the Sengoku-Kogen Susuki Grass Field (Miscanthus sinensis) - pretty similar, but a bit different.
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And here are the final 2 photos at the Sengoku-Kogen Susuki Grass Field (Miscanthus sinensis). The sun came out fully for the 1st photo and it was also enhanced with Shadow Illuminator Pro to reduce the shadow at the forest/field interface.
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The Sengokuhara Youth Hostel has its own Hot Spring. Kazuya took this photo on the morning of October 23rd - our 3rd and final soak in this bath. It's a very nice bath. We took a bus to Togendai and took the Cable-car back up to Owakudani - it was sunny today so we wanted to get up there while we would be able to see the scenery in the morning light. The 2nd photo shows the magnificent clouds at the bottom of the Cable-car. The 3rd shot was taken from the Cable-car looking back down at Lake Ashi (Ashinoko) at a gathering of boats. These are smelt fishermen. The Lake Ashi fresh-water smelt are very delicious. We had them for lunch later today.
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The first shot in this row was also taken from the Cable-car. It shows the steam coming out of the mountain in the morning light. The 2nd shot is me at the summit of the Cable-car - Owakudani. The 3rd shot is one more of steamy scenery.
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The first shot here is steamy scenery. The 2nd shot is Mt. Fuji, Susuki Grass and some Cable-cars. The 3rd shot is another of Mt. Fuji - zoomed in quite a bit more than the previous shot.
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Here are 3 more shots of Mt. Fuji taken from near the parking lot of Owakudani. Everything was particularly picturesque this morning - very different from yesterday.
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And an additional 3 shots of Mt. Fuji. The 3rd shot is with some wild Chrysanthemums in the foreground.
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A shot of Mt. Fuji with a nice pink Thistle in the foreground, followed by a shot with Susuki Grass and other vegetation in the foreground and then a shot of steam and Susuki Grass up on the mountain.
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Here is a shot of steam and Susuki Grass, a shot of Mt. Fuji and another of Mt. Fuji through the Susuki Grass.
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This one was taken near the Black Eggs Place - Mt. Fuji. The 2nd shot is from nearly the same spot, but as a puff of steam blows by. The 3rd shot is Mt. Fuji through the Susuki Grass.
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Now we have taken the Cable-car down to Togendai and we are on the boat going from Togendai to Hakone-Machi. That mountain with the Cable-car going up to the summit is Mt. Komagatake. We've been up there in past visits (June 2009 and October 2007), but not this time. The 2nd shot is also Mt. Komagatake, but not zoomed as much. The 3rd shot was taken from the shore of Ashinoko (Lake Ashi) and shows Mt. Fuji and some smelt boats.
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Here is Mt. Fuji and a famous orange Torii of a Buddhist shrine, taken from the shore of Lake Ashi. The 2nd shot is the same area, but zoomed in more. This image was Tone-Mapped with the Photomatix Pro Details Enhancer software from 3 - exposure bracketed photos. The resultant photo was then enhanced with Shadow Illuminator Pro. The 3rd shot is the same area and has had nothing done to it.
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Here is a zoomed in shot of the Torii of that famous Buddhist Shrine. We are now on the boat going back to Togendai. After we got back to Togendai we took the Cable-car back to the top of Owakudani - the 3rd time we've been to Owakudani this trip - good thing we have an unlimited travel ticket, eh! The 2nd photo is a bright yellow Goldenrod Flower at Owakudani. The 3rd shot is Mt. Fuji with a VERY different sun angle than in any of the previous shots. The time is now around 2:15 PM. The previous photos of Mt. Fuji - in Rows 6 through 11 - were taken between 9:20 and 10:30 AM.
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Here is a shot of Mt. Fuji and the Cable-car, taken through the Goldenrod. The final shot was taken after we got back on the Cable-car and were headed back to our original starting point of Sounzan - it is the shadow of our Cable-car on the forest below us. And that's the final image from the trip to Hakone - after we got back to the bottom of the Cable-car the trip was just trains back to our house.
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| End October 23rd, End Page 3, End October 2010's Photos |
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