February "Blizzard" in Tokyo

Or as close to one as we get in Tokyo. It was quite cold for the area that morning. I actually got numbed fingers even though I was wearing mittens. I have not been that cold in the Tokyo area in years.

A Rare Tokyo Snow

It may only snow once or twice a year in Tokyo---or not at all. On February 3, we had the first of two snowfalls this year. This was taken in Okusawa Tokyo.

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

7AM

Monday Morning Rising Sun

On top

Wind-blown Clouds

Not yet frozen

but she's close

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.

Snowy Kanagawa

Well, not usually. But I love snow and cold weather. It's pouring rain today, but I am thinking about the "big snow"---for the Tokyo area---that we had last January 21st or so. I was off that day and spent the whole day outside enjoying it, as I knew it might be a year of more before I saw snow again. Most of these were taken near Minami-Machida in Kanagawa. About 30-40 minutes out of Tokyo.