While today was a normal Tuesday for many folks, today marks the beginning of spring in the 'old' Japanese calendar, and has earned National Holiday status. For some reason the eardrum-popping rockets that normally mark National Holidays in our neighborhood began at 6:30, rather that the usual 6 or 7 even. Hmmm.
Anyway, the sun had already woken us up, and we were on our way out to ride when those explosions surely woke everyone else for miles around. Why were those lazy folks sleeping in on the nicest day so far this year?
On the ride we visited the un-photogenic boars, that are caged for future stews. The boars are kept in a dark bamboo grove, and become agitated easily if we approach too closely, thereby preventing good shots. Once we got close enough to toss apple slices to them, but we didn't have any treats today. Maybe next time!
On the ride we stopped and I took a few shots to combine into an HDR... the results look to me like a diarama; the house looks like a tiny model and the trees seems fake. Not what I expected, but still kind of cool:
This was a different view of Mt. Fuji than the one familiar to us from our front door. Although I've snapped this one many times before, yesterday's weather allowed for a more spectacular version:
The day started very clear, then in the afternoon, suddenly became dark, rained, thundered, hailed, and cleared, all in the span of an hour. This was just after the storm.
These were taken / assembled using my new camera, the Lumix dmc-lx1. This has a unique true 'wide' ratio of 16:9, as well as having full manual control and a Leica lens. I'm looking forward to playing with it more as spring rolls in!
1 comment:
You are right, that does look like a diarama. I'm glad that you enjoyed your holiday.
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