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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sikorsky Maple

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It was almost a month ago that I made the first drive through the rural mountain villages of Uji City (southern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) with friends Katsunori Shimada and Paul Barr. We went again the next week, and on other photographic adventures since, but I still have photos I want to share from that first trip, so that's what this post is.

I'm a big fan of thin depth of field, but in this next case (taken with a 300mm f/2), I find having to scan around for something in focus leaves me a touch queasy. What do you think?

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/1250 sec, f/2, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Borderline

These next few are from the heavily tiered farm seen in “Heading Off To Fetch More Seedlings”, from the post “A Few More From Our First Rural Uji Trip”...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/2500 sec, f/2, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Fungus
the thin depth at 300mm f/2 works better here
( though it makes the huge log, placed here as a bench, look like a twig )

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/2500 sec, f/2, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bicycle Parking

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Seemingly Unbalanced
but it's perfectly level

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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
I Dunno
just playing around in Lightroom with a throw-away shot

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/2500 sec, f/2, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice Seedlings

Moving to the next hamlet closer to civilization, we find some planted seedlings in a field that hasn't been flooded yet...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/400 sec, f/11, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice Seedlings

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Quintessential Hamlet
old house · modern house · garden · rice paddy

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/3.2, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Shuttered
this house under towering cedar was unoccupied and boarded up

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/1250 sec, f/2, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
Crest

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Pleasant Old House

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — ¹/640 sec, f/4, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Worrisomely Unsturdy

And finally, one more shot of the flowers seen in both “Exquisite Beauty Growing Like a Weed by the Side of the Road” and the followup “Scenes From Rural Japan: Mountain Village in Uji City”, this time with a wider depth of field at f/5.6 instead of the normal creamy-inducing f/2.5 that I normally use the Voigtländer 125mm at...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1600 sec, f/5.6, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Regal

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