Trouble coming

From 2007 at Utsukushigahara in Nagano.

Rocky top

Everygreen and not

Mid-May at Utsukushigahara, Nagano

Fujisan from Utsukushigahara

The weather was relatively clear, but the air seemed quite smoky that day. Now if only I do black and white conversions better. This was done using Image Factory software with what is in effect, a red filter and their Ilford Delta setting for color sensitivity.

Big Sky Country, Japan

Returned to Utsukushigahara in Nagano last week. Still freezing or below at dawn. Winds were about 50mph in the morning. It was hard to stand up and my camera and tripod would easily have been blown away if I let go. This was taken Saturday night, just before an unusually unspectacular sunset.

Speaking of black and white conversions, for some reason, many of mine become grainy---oh, sorry, noisy---when converted. Have used various ways, but much of the noise seems to be in the red channel. This one turned out ok as far as grain goes. I can always pretend the noise is like the grain of old TriX film.

Clouds below

As the sun was setting on Feb 18th at Utsukushigahara. D70, Tokina 12-24 aspherical@24mm.
1/160 F10 ISO 200, from NEF. Converted to BW with Photocamel's plug.

Sunday at sundown

Nikon D70s with Tokina 12-24 aspherical at 12mm. f10 1/200 ISO 200

Northwest

A glimpse of blue

A rare sight this morning on this cloud enshrouded mountain top

7AM

Monday Morning Rising Sun

On top

Wind-blown Clouds

Ohgatou Hotel

The website is here (in Japanese) but many they have a gallery here.

Not yet frozen

but she's close

Utsukushigahara

Actually translates as "Beautiful plain."

Utsukushigahara, Nakano

Beautiful place, but very windy and extremely cold in the evening and morning. When we went last week, the fog was so heavy one could barely see 20 yards ahead---at least on one of the 2 days we were there. Hard to photograph much in that fog.