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Revisiting Last Year’s Nara Mountain Drive

by Jeffrey Friedl Sun, September 30th, 2012 6:10pm JST (11 years, 7 months ago)

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Sharp -- Katano, Osaka, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sharp

A year ago I took a nice scooter drive into the mountains of northern Nara Prefecture, a trip that produced the following posts:

This post is a collection of random other photos from that trip.

Ready For Hanging -- Katano, Osaka, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 160mm — ¹/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ready For Hanging

Hanging -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/5000 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Hanging

Rice Paddy though unused at the moment -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/7.1, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice Paddy
though unused at the moment

Momentary Respite -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 140mm — ¹/800 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Momentary Respite

Roofs -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/3200 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Roofs

Sontoku Ninomiya in front of a school, as described here -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 120mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sontoku Ninomiya
in front of a school, as described here

Next we have three photos that are as different upon inspection as they appear to be the same at first glance....

desktop background image of a pretty flower -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/4000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/5000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/5000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

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Slightly Forlorn -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Slightly Forlorn

Hard Core click through to the large version and look how they're sitting -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Hard Core
click through to the large version and look how they're sitting

Not Quite as hard core as the previous folks -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Not Quite
as hard core as the previous folks

A different view of a fisherman at this lake also appeared on this post of desktop backgrounds.

Lot of Work represented here ( I wonder whether the cutting/stacking is somehow automated? ) -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/3200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lot of Work
represented here
( I wonder whether the cutting/stacking is somehow automated? )

Old and Older the roof is certainly older than the rusty antenna, but in much better shape -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Old and Older
the roof is certainly older than the rusty antenna, but in much better shape

Dock for fishermen on stilts? -- Ikoma, Nara, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Dock
for fishermen on stilts?

September	27th,	2011	Perfect Flower in the Mountains of Nara
September	28th,	2011	Highlight of Yesterday's Mountain Ride: Friendly Farmer Lady
September	29th,	2011	Stages of the Rice Harvest
October	5th,	2011	More From the Rice Harvest
October	7th,	2011	After the Rice Harvest
March	16th,	2012	Some Random Japan Desktop Backgrounds From the Past Year

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Lots of nice shots, but the first is exquisite.

— comment by Zak on October 2nd, 2012 at 7:25am JST (11 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink

I agree with the first comment, but my fovourits are the “Hanging” and the Cosmos bipinnatus flowers.

Endre
from Hungary

— comment by Endre Toth on October 4th, 2012 at 3:35am JST (11 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink