In the spirit of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and sumi-e monochrome ink painting, some judicious processing in Olympus Workspace, DxO PhotoLab, and Adobe Lightroom has been applied to emphasize the feel of this dramatic landscape.
I have always felt that the world is an erotic place… For me cities are enormous bodies of people’s desires. And as I search for my own desires within them, I slice into time, seeing the moment. That’s the kind of camera work I like. — Daido Moriyama
See more photos from Tokyo Kills Me 2.0, circa 2009-2010
Check out the most recent pictures posted, circa 2007-2008, at Tokyo Kills Me: Photos
See the gallery at Tokyo Kills Me: iPhone X Autumn Edition
Steep-sloped thatched rooftops reach for the sky like hands raised in prayer. Narrow, fast-flowing drainage ditches alive with carp and trout knit the rice paddies and the hulking, three- and four-story farmhouses together into the village of Ogimachi, the main attraction of the Shirakawago region in a remote, pine-covered mountain valley in Gifu prefecture. The total effect is like something out of a Japanese folktale perhaps: Momotaro Peach Boy, or a whimsical Ghibli Studios anime such as My Neighbor Totoro.
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Tokyo Kills Me: Fall, 2017. Snapshots from daily life in The Big Sushi.
More pictures uploaded to the galleries at 500px: these from photo walks around Kichijoji in the autumn of 2007. The picture above is from a small Buddhist temple tucked away near the top of Sunshine Dori shopping street. Check out this and other pics full-sized at https://500px.com/tokyoaaron/galleries
Traditional “gassho” style farmhouses in Shirakawago, a UNESCO Heritage Site hidden deep in the Japan Alps. See more pictures from autumn, 2016 on my Instagram feed, https://www.instagram.com/?hl=en
Japanese maple
burning up the countryside
autumn foliage.
See more pictures from Norikuradake, in Japan’s North Alps, during autumn’s “koyo” foliage season on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tokyoaaron/?hl=en
For more than ten years R. and I have visited the Shinto shrine at the summit of Mount Mitakesan, the village of minshuku and restaurants below, the “Rock Garden” river course, and the trails to surrounding peaks such as Mount Otakesan and Mount Hinodesan.
In order to create this gallery of pictures from those trips, I have gone back to the earliest scans of pictures I shot back in the days of film photography, when my pride and joy was a Konica Hexar Silver camera and rolls of Fuji Velvia and Provia. I’ll continue to add pictures, though it will take time: we average maybe three trips a year, and we’re going again this weekend!
You can view the Mount Mitakesan gallery on 500px, or see all the galleries on 500px on my gallery landing page…
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