danwiz.com
This is Page 2 of 2 - the best of August 2007!
posted: August 31st, 2007
Go To Page:

The photos on this page continue with August 19th and go through the end of the month - trips to Mt. Takao, Nippara and also some airplane photos. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin August 19th
  On August 19th Kazuya and I climbed Mt. Takao - for the 35th time. We did not find the particular flower we were searching for, so here are 3 photos of the Takao Shrine Area. The first shot is one of the "long-nosed-Gods" (Tengu). The 2nd shot is the shrine area from the hill above it and the 3rd shot is an interesting gable (you can see 1/2 of this gable in the previous photo).
Aug19_TakaoShrine_God03RC.jpg
Aug19_TakaoShrine_God03RC
Aug19_TakaoShrineFromAbove01RC.jpg
Aug19_TakaoShrineFromAbove01RC
Aug19_TakaoShrineGable01aRC.jpg
Aug19_TakaoShrineGable01aRC
End August 19th, Begin August 26th
  On August 26th Kazuya and I went to a new place - the Nippara Area. Our intention was to go to the Nippara Limestone Cave (open length = 800 meters; temperature = 11 degrees C). We took the bus from Okutama to Nippara (the end of the bus line) and then walked through the village of Nippara and up the road to the cave. The first picture shows part of Nippara Village - looking back towards where we came from. The 2nd shot is a scene from near the bus stop. The 3rd shot is a telephoto shot of the same place. Oh, forgot to mention that I bought myself a new camera for by 60th Birthday and these are the first pics with that camera. It is capable of 12x OPTICAL ZOOM - very nice. It's a Canon PowerShot S5 IS.
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery03RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery03RC
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery04RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery04RC
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery05RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery05RC

  The first picture is the same one as the 3rd shot in Row 2, but I applied "Levels Correction" to this one. The 2nd shot is an interesting "mountain" which we passed between Nippara Village and the cave. The third shot is an Iwa Tabako (Conandron ramondioides) we saw on the way to the cave.
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery05aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
Scenery05aRC
Aug26_Nippara_Scenery06aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
Scenery06aRC
Aug26_Nippara_Conandron_ramondioides05RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_Conandron
_ramondioides05RC

  The first shot in this row is a Giboushi flower. The 2nd shot brings us inside the Nippara Limestone Cave. Note the plant life growing under the fluorescent light. The 3rd shot is a small shrine in the cave, notice that it too has greenery growing on it - merely from the artificial lighting.
Aug26_Nippara_Giboushi01RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
Giboushi01RC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave02RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave02RC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave07RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave07RC

  Here is Kazuya standing in one of the passages. By the way, this cave does not give "guided tours" - you just pay the entrance fee and go in and explore along the "approved" path. There are fenced off areas which are unlighted and signed with "entry prohibited" signs. The 2nd shot gives you an idea of how large some of the "rooms" in the cave are, as does the 3rd shot.
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave11aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave11aRC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave14aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave14aRC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave18aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave18aRC

  Here are some shots showing stalactites (=growing down from the ceiling) and stalagmites (=growing up from the ground).
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave23RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave23RC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave26aRC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave26aRC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave24RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave24RC

  Here are 2 more shots of stalagmites.
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave27RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave27RC
Aug26_Nippara_LimestoneCave29RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_
LimestoneCave29RC

  Just downstream from the cave was this waterfall - 2 shots of it. The first shot is no zoom and the 2nd shot is partially zoomed.
Aug26_Nippara_NearLimestoneCave_Waterfall01RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_NearLimestone
Cave_Waterfall01RC
Aug26_Nippara_NearLimestoneCave_Waterfall02RC.jpg
Aug26_Nippara_NearLimestone
Cave_Waterfall02RC
End August 26th, Begin Miscellaneous August Dates
  These final 3 rows are some miscellaneous photos I took at the airport while learning how to use my new camera. The first shot here is a "Star Flyer" fleet aircraft - this company only has 3 planes in it's fleet. The 2nd shot is a sunset at the airport. Both of these shots were taken from our office window. The 3rd shot is a macro-photo of a 100 Yen coin.
Aug23_Starflyer02RC.jpg
Aug23_Starflyer02RC
Aug23_HanedaSunset03RC.jpg
Aug23_HanedaSunset03RC
Aug24_100YenCoin02CropRC.jpg
Aug24_100YenCoin02CropRC

  The first shot here is an ANA (All Nippon Airways) Pokemon B747. The 2nd shot is my 60th Birthday cake - made by Kazuya (one candle for each 10 years). The 3rd shot is an ANA "Universal Studios Japan" plane.
Aug24_PokemonANAPlane01RC.jpg
Aug24_PokemonANAPlane01RC
Aug29_DanBirthdayCake04aCropRC.jpg
Aug29_DanBirthdayCake04aCropRC
Aug30_ANA_USJ_PlaneRC.jpg
Aug30_ANA_USJ_PlaneRC

  These 2 shots are a Shin Maywa US-IA amphibious STOL aircraft used by the Japanese Navy. You can find the original size of the first photo HERE (942 KB), The original size of the 2nd photo HERE (848 KB) and you can find a bunch more photos of this aircraft on airliners.net HERE.
Aug30_JapanNavy_ShinMaywa_US-1A_AmphibiousPlane01aCropRC.jpg
Aug30_JapanNavy_ShinMaywa_US-1A_
AmphibiousPlane01aCropRC
Aug30_JapanNavy_ShinMaywa_US-1A_AmphibiousPlane02aCropRC.jpg
Aug30_JapanNavy_ShinMaywa_US-1A_
AmphibiousPlane02aCropRC
End Miscellaneous August Dates, End August 2007's Photos
  This is a link to a separate web page showing some photos of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our Sharp Aquos TV.
    April 1, 2006 DVD Collection,
Movie of Home Theater System
& Sharp Aquos TV Pictures
(new window)

By the way - Kazuya is still maintaining his blog, which exhibits different photos than shown here (mostly - I have used some of his though). It looks very nice and you can find it HERE. (Click on the "Studies of Plants and Wildlife" link in the new window.)

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at the site this month, I hope you found something you enjoyed looking at. Any feedback is always appreciated. Go To Page:


Purchase Photos Complete List Of All Photos E-mail us Go to the Special Items Page
Top Of Page Lightbox Instructions Comprehensive Site Map Return to our home page



Link to Amazon.com (new window).
We get 2% of whatever you spend if you go to Amazon from this link!! Please shop on Amazon from here.
If you would like to donate to our hiking & traveling fund or show your appreciation for our efforts you can donate through PayPal. A single donation will entitle you to request a single full-sized photo IN THE DONATION MONTH - which you may then use as a desktop wallpaper or whatever. The copyright will be retained by us and the photo will be inconspicuously marked with the copyright symbol (©), year and photographer's name. (Donation probably not tax deductible.)