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Mt. Iwate HDR
Next time I'm in Morioka, I'm going to go back here and retake this shot. I tried focusing on the mountain, but I should have concentrated on the foreground. Live and learn. And another - Thank you for subscribing! If you have a comment about th...
Back to Yamadera
I've been in Sendai for more than two years now and in that time I had only been to Yamadera once until last weekend. I finally made the move after checking the weather. I thought the risk of some rain in the afternoon was worth the risk. There was o...
Back to Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki is a fishing town / harbor / manufacturing area on the Miyagi Pacific Coast. It's not very far from Sendai, yet in the two years since I have been here, I have only been to Ishinomaki twice - once to visit newly found family and once for w...
Sendai-shi
One of my frequent visitors to my photo blog is a man named Abraham Lincoln. He always leaves comments talking about how much the city has changed since he was here after the war. Well, he decided to start his own site called Sendai-shi. These are h...
Iwate Koyo!
When I got my Nikon D80 the first thing I wanted to photograph was the cherry blossoms in the spring. The second was the autumn foliage. I got the camera at the end of July, so I'll have to wait for spring to get the cherry blossoms. Since I'm livin...
Geibikei
Ever I since I went to Genbikei and Genbikei I've been itching to get back - especially since I didn't even go into Geibikei the last time. On my latest trip back from Morioka, I decided it was time to go again since, I didn't know when I'd get ba...
Sendai PhotoWalk
On a Sunday, I went to the Komatsushima Campus of Tohoku High School to 森林公園 to Kita Sendai to Ichibancho. Then I walked back. The whole loop took 4 hours, and I took about 200 pictures. That's good and bad. It's good because I have a lot...
Hideaway
Here's a place near my house that I want to go to with a tripod at dusk when the leaves change colors. You can see from these pictures that: Long exposures + me = out of focus pictures And these were the keepers. Thank you for subscribing...
Tilt-Shift Fields
It's not easy to find something interesting to photograph when you [I] take the same route to work and don't have time to go exploring. So I walk basically the same way to work everyday (I know that I could change it up, but that only goes so far) a...
Boys of Summer
If you want to go fishing in Japan, you can do it the old fashioned way and catch by chance mixed with some skill [like a sucker], or you can go to an artificial pond where the fish are so think that every cast gets something. Instant gratification....
Misty Mountain
Cue Led Zeppelin. I took this while in Morioka. This is a cliff on the Pacific coast and was taken on a foggy summer afternoon. Thank you for subscribing! If you have a comment about this post, feel free to stop by and leave a comment....
Takkokonoiwaya
I got this plug-in for Photo$hop that can do some interesting things.Thank you for subscribing! If you have a comment about this post, feel free to stop by and leave a comment....
Forgotten Pictures
The other day I brought some rolls of film to the store to have processed. At the same time, I brought in some disposable cameras that had been sitting on my shelf.Here are a couple from Golden Week 2006 in Kyoto.Thank you for subscribing! If you hav...
Praying Monk
My wife doesn't like this picture, but I do. I guess she's a little superstitious.Thank you for subscribing! If you have a comment about this post, feel free to stop by and leave a comment....
The Film Camera Experiment
A few months ago I was given a Nikon F100 SLR. I was very happy since it's a nice camera and I haven't saved the money for a DSLR.Over the past few months I took about 4 rolls worths of pictures and last weekend I decided that it was time to have the...
Tilt Shift Train
A picture of the Senzan JR Train Line that runs through Sendai.I made this using tiltshiftmaker.com, but it's not hard to reproduce if you have imaging software. I'm just lazy.Thank you for subscribing! If you have a comment about this post, feel fre...
Geibikei and Gembikei
Geibikei and Gembikei are gorges in southern Iwate. They are near Hiraizumi so along with Chusonji, Tokkunoiwaya, and Motsuji, they make southern Iwate an interesting travel destination. They can both be reached by That is not something I would have ...
Takkunoiwaya
Another Hiraizumi attraction is Takkunoiwaya. This is really what I got off the expressway to see. I've been looking forward to seeing the temple dedicated to warriors that is built into a cliff ever since I read about it in a certain company's eikai...
Motsuji
After visiting Chusonji, my wife and I headed on to Motsuji, which was a few minutes from Chusonji.Motsuji is a temple complex and amazing garden that was built around the same time as Chusonji. It was interesting to read on Wikipedia that: Previou...
Chusonji
Chusonji is a temple complex that was originally built in 1100. It is the most famous temple in Iwate and one of the biggest tourist attractions in Tohoku. Chusonji is in the town of Hiraizumi which is located near other places of interest: Matsuji, ...
