Dear Jeff!

This is the third day when I am browse your site, it is just amazing how beautiful your pictures are. I am not really often leave a comment, i almost can say i never ,but after these days i decided i ll do it.

I like them most because the colors and the quality is so good, the colors are so intense and bright and are full with life, its kind of hard to explain but it brings that special feel of japan and the beauties of nature and history also. when i found the pictures about stone carving it was brilliant , they are really beautiful and the theme choosing is perfect.Are you doing some modifications(Photoshop..etc.) after the pictures are taken or you just an amazing photographer:)?

for “Ron Evans” comment:

The northern parts of japan are belong to a subtropical climate area, the other two-third, the southern parts are belongs to the monsoon territory .the wind blows from south-east and at the summertime it brings a lot of rain. it makers the island very humid . the most rainfall is around June-July . its kind of important for the moss because they need rain critically for those species which lives there, they need rain for propagation. the cells which ones are responsible for propagation need water, they kind of move in water with their paddle. I am not sure these are the best words but i try to explain it.
so this humid weather makes the perfect place them to reproduce and spread, there are more than a thousand moss species and all of them are almost can be found everywhere. What they are cultivating in japan is about 40-60 species, but there are more out in the wild.

So finally thank you for the beautiful pictures again!:)

Endre Toth

My father-in-law (he lives in Himeji) even gets moss growing on the soil in the pots of his indoor plants. -It makes boring old house plants look like mini-bonsai dioramas. When I asked him, “Hey, how’d you do that?” He just shrugged and laughed. And then told me that it just grows on its own.