autumn almost finished

[yoshi]

Some from the first half of this months. Apparently around two to three weeks late for taking autumn landscape shots and the weather was not very friendly but of course I enjoyed it until it started snow.
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: autumn almost finished

Hi Yoshi - you are indeed blessed with wonderful displays in Japan both in Spring and Autumn!

The last photo looks interesting - is that the snow you were referring to?

Ian

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

Hi Ian, well, the last one is just sulfer, ash and those stuffs of a volcano. Unlike snow, it's quite hot when you touch it .
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: autumn almost finished

It reminds me a little of my trip up to the middle-station of Mount Fuji over ten years ago. Unfortunately it was a very misty and cloudy day and even at the base of the mountain I was unable to see the top!





I have actually enhanced this a lot and you can still only just about see the summit.



This is at the highest point that cars and coaches can reach.

Shots taken using a Canon EOS-30D and 28-80 USM lens (apart from the last one which was taken using a 17-35).

Ian

[Pops]

Re: autumn almost finished

The colours in the first are amazing and the last is very different. I note the footpath is well fenced all the way up...do the public have access?

[Tom Holle]

Re: autumn almost finished

Beautiful.

[Pol]

Re: autumn almost finished

Hi Ian, well, the last one is just sulfer, ash and those stuffs of a volcano. Unlike snow, it's quite hot when you touch it .
yoshi

That last one is an outstanding shot.

The clouds and that reddish earth, near the top, create and illusion of a volcano beginning to erupt.

Where's the location of that last picture? I wouldn't want to live too close!

Pol

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

You have really been to many places, Ian. I've never been to that highest point in the past two decades or so. While I lived in Tokyo, I went to Mr. Fuji often but it was film days. I have no digital photo of Mount Fuji.

I did not know that you were a Canon user before. What made you change your mind?
yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

The colours in the first are amazing and the last is very different. I note the footpath is well fenced all the way up...do the public have access?

thank you Pops. Anybody can walk around the mountains. We just have to pay due attention to bears.
yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

Thank you, Tom. You know the most beautiful autumn color I've ever seen is in the US. Maine, I suppose. I can't forget the red acer. yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

Where's the location of that last picture? I wouldn't want to live too close!

Pol

Thanks a lot Pol.
It locates at Yuzawa city, Akita Pref. I wanted to show it using a link to Google Map but I think I forgot how to do it.

I wanted to show a screen shot of the map instead but can not find "attachment" function anymore. Was it disabled, I wonder. - just murmuring.

yoshi

[John Perriment]

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Beautiful shots, Yoshi. No 1 is amazing, not just for the colours but also the sheer scale.

[yoshi]

Re: autumn almost finished

Hi John, yes that was an occasion when I could use a ultra wide lens in order to bring out the full talent (?) of the lens.
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: autumn almost finished

You have really been to many places, Ian. I've never been to that highest point in the past two decades or so. While I lived in Tokyo, I went to Mr. Fuji often but it was film days. I have no digital photo of Mount Fuji.

I did not know that you were a Canon user before. What made you change your mind?
yoshi

I was loaned a Canon EOS D30 (3 megapixel DSLR!) for this trip to Japan as I was a guest of Canon

But I had been using a Canon EOS-100 film SLR since the early 1990s. This had the 28-80 f/3.5-5.6 USM kit lens which I used on this trip, but I was also lent a 17-35 f/2.8 L-series lens for the Japan trip.

Despite 7 visits to Japan I have not seen Mount Fuji better than in my shot in this thread. I am told that I missed the view from the Shinkhansen (bullet train) between Tokyo and Kyoto several times because I was asleep!

Ian

[Pol]

Re: autumn almost finished

Thanks a lot Pol.
It locates at Yuzawa city, Akita Pref. I wanted to show it using a link to Google Map but I think I forgot how to do it.

I wanted to show a screen shot of the map instead but can not find "attachment" function anymore. Was it disabled, I wonder. - just murmuring.

yoshi

Got it, thanks. Way up further north than Fukishima, north west of Sendai.

Here's a link to the Google Map though you may have to click on the link on the left side of the page to get to Yuzawa city, Akita Pref. The names of the surrounding mountains are well marked on the Google map, thanks.

Ian disabled the attachment function a few weeks ago as people were using 'attachments' in the critique forum rather than using normal gallery links.

Pol