Memories of Hokkaido

[giantcanopy]

# 101

Nakajima - The four islands at the centre of Lake Toya. Really not the best weather for shots.
A panorama of 7 frames resized. The temple of Ukimido near Benten island can be seen in the original picture.

 

[Six-GHz]

Ryan, thanks for the lovely series! My wife's going to Hokkaido this December, so your thread is like a reference to her! :thumbsup:

Just kaypoh but is your gf into photography also? I am sure if I spent as much time as you taking photos, my wife and children will leave me behind!! :bsmilie:

:bsmilie: yeah, fully emphatise your predicaments... me too!:cry:

 

[giantcanopy]

:bsmilie: yeah, fully emphatise your predicaments... me too!:cry:

Yea ... btw she reads this thread as well :sweat:

Ryan

 

[giantcanopy]

#102

If u somehow cycled around the entire Lake which ... will take ( alot of ) effort, u will find a great number of arty statues circling around Lake Toya. There are actually some spots where they even recommend watching / shooting sunset but a quite abit of distance from Toyako Onsen area.

Here is the statue infront of Kohantei, the Jazz Musician. My gf's favourite statue.
There wasn't any sunset due to the overcasted skies. i would imagine a crimson sky with sunset and a silhouette to be really pretty.

 

[giantcanopy]

#103

We got onto a bus ride to the foot of Mount Showa Shinzan, *born* from a wheatfield in 1943
Still pretty hot up there so there isn't much vegetation.

 

[giantcanopy]

# 104

Mount Yotei taken from my hotel room.
Unfortunately cloud shrouded. Its conical shape resembles Mount Fuji and is often referred as Ezo Fuji because of the resemblance.

 

[Info Overflow]

how did you take those birds in motion? (#98-100).

 

[giantcanopy]

how did you take those birds in motion? (#98-100).

With my 70-200mm. They fly quite near our hotel rooms so I did not need too much zoom. For #100 i did not even need the 200mm end.
Even though it was relatively bright, I upped the ISO to have a much faster shutter speed to freeze them in motion.

Ryan

 

[Info Overflow]

swee :thumbsup:

 

[giantcanopy]

swee :thumbsup:

#105

Show u something not so swee about them then :bsmilie:

Ryan

 

[jfoo]

#105

Show u something not so swee about them then :bsmilie:

Ryan

not so swee but good shot. not many people will think about taking this shot but you did.

 

[giantcanopy]

not so swee but good shot. not many people will think about taking this shot but you did.

Wanted to catch the next pooh coming out but did not happen

 

[g-khoo]

#102

If u somehow cycled around the entire Lake which ... will take ( alot of ) effort, u will find a great number of arty statues circling around Lake Toya. There are actually some spots where they even recommend watching / shooting sunset but a quite abit of distance from Toyako Onsen area.

Here is the statue infront of Kohantei, the Jazz Musician. My gf's favourite statue.
There wasn't any sunset due to the overcasted skies. i would imagine a crimson sky with sunset and a silhouette to be really pretty.

This.
is.
awesome. :thumbsup:

 

[giantcanopy]

This.
is.
awesome. :thumbsup:

Thx

Unfortunately no sunset. Cause this picture was taken facing west. Light in the picture was a spot light.
And my gf was thinking maybe we shld make a trip back in winter to visit *him* :dunno:

Brudder show me ur shots too. I enjoy the way u process ur shots!
( The only reason why I hardly process anything differently is because my significant half only likes
pictures taken the original way it looks )

Ryan

 

[giantcanopy]

# 106

Back to Showa Shinzan / Uzu area
Opposite Mount Showa Shinzan ( #103 ) is a row of souvenir shops , a small town referred to as Kazan Mura. The ropeway up Mount Uzu can be located here

A shop owner carving a bear out of a block of wood.
* A little careless and got abit overexposed here.

 

[emlee]

# 106

Back to Showa Shinzan / Uzu area
Opposite Mount Showa Shinzan ( #103 ) is a row of souvenir shops , a small town referred to as Kazan Mura. The ropeway up Mount Uzu can be located here

A shop owner carving a bear out of a block of wood.
* A little careless and got abit overexposed here.

Where is the over-exposed portion? I think your standard is too high, this picture is so rich with details, dont see any blown out areas. Very 3D.

 

[giantcanopy]

Where is the over-exposed portion? I think your standard is too high, this picture is so rich with details, dont see any blown out areas. Very 3D.

Hi emlee thx for dropping by! The buttock of the bear abit burnt out ma :bsmilie:

#107

Here is a shot of the cable car station taken from the cable car. Left of this station is Mount Showa Shinzan

 

[giantcanopy]

# 108

A japanese boy who was sitting opposite me. Think he will grow up to be a handsome young man nxt time erh

 

[giantcanopy]

# 109

A fellow tourist enjoying a view from the top of the cable station
I thought he resembled a little of Ioan Gruffudd from Fantastic Four.
Nice man with thick accent. He trekked the entire stretch of Uzu to see the crater formation
Wife was a nice japanese lady with fluent english

 

[giantcanopy]

# 110

Taken after a good walk from the cable car station
In this picture you can see :
- Part of Lake Toya
- The cable car station at the top
- Mount Showa Shinzan ( The red little thing on the right )