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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 32 mm — ¹/80 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Good Morning, Day Three
first photo of the morning, day three of our New Year's trip
Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Recovering now from a third cold in about as many weeks, the photo above represents my backlog of email and blog comments that I have not gotten to in the last month. If one is from you, sorry.

Feeling good enough this evening finally to want to write something (but not enough to want to deal with email), I'll begin the foray into Day Three of our very snowy, fairly photogenic four-day trip over the new-year holiday. My previous post on the trip closed out Day Two, and summarized the 14 posts that came from that day's snowy adventures.

While the second day of the trip was characterized by a lot of snow where we had driven that day, to the south of where we were staying, the third day was characterized by a lot of snow where we were staying. There was a bit of snow on the ground when we had arrived on the first day, but today was something different....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 120 mm — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
This Pretty Much Sums it Up
view from the cabin
carefully composed to leave out wires and other visual garbage

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Enthusiasm of Youth
Anthony was all excited to shovel the walk

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 45 mm — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Perseverance of Youth
abandoning the endeavor after about 90 seconds

Despite the path not being completely clear, we somehow made it the 10 seconds to the restaurant (the building in the picture above) for breakfast...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — ¹/160 sec, f/4.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Breakfast Awaits
The food at this place was surprisingly good

After breakfast, Fumie went back to the cabin to relax, and Anthony and I went out for a long exploratory walk to the dam we can see from the cabin.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 48 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Getting Started
the hill behind our cabin

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm — ¹/200 sec, f/9, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bridge To an Unknown Future
hint: the future is cold, wet, and snowy

And so began our long walk.

It's been three months since the trip, but I have truly not even looked at the photos beyond this last one yet. I remember the scenery and occasions as being remarkably photogenic, probably increasingly so in my mind as time passes, so I'm sure actually looking at them tomorrow for the next post will be an exercise in disappointment, but that's the way it goes. The backlog of photos that I want to process and post about (“photo constipation”) is mostly the same embarrassment of riches that I've long suffered, living in as photogenic a place as Kyoto, but it's been compounded lately by multiple colds in quick succession, a problem that's plagued me in Feb-Apr most years since moving to Japan this time six years ago. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Continued here...