Since writing "A Few Polarization-Filter Examples" several years ago, I've been meaning to do a post on a polarization filter's effects when shooting fall foliage. Over the years I've mentioned some effect or other of a polarization filer on my blog (such as here, here, and here), but I'm only now getting to filling in a huge deficiency of my 2007 post on making the best of bright light in fall-color photography by demonstrating how useful a polarizing filter can be when shooting foliage.

While at the Yoshiminedera Temple south of Kyoto during various trips last year, I did something [...]

It's been a while since I posted one of my "What am I?" quizzes, so here's a new one. But let me be up front about one thing: the picture above is a daytime picture that I've tried to make look like it was taken at night. It's really dark because it was an area with few lights, and there was no moon.

On our trip last week to Bunny Island, we stayed at a hotel on a mountain overlooking a small marina. This hotel, the Bella Vista Sakaigahama (ベラビスタ境ガ浜) had, by far, the best baths I'd ever been to.

While putzing through my photos from our weekend trip to "Bunny Island", I found myself playing with some exaggerated renditions in Lightroom's develop module. I go crazy with "stylized" renditions from time to time (most recently in last week's "Impressionism in Lightroom", but also here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, among many others, I'm sure).

I don't know that any of these are interesting, but I thought I'd share them.

This next one isn't exaggerated, but it reminds me of one of my early posts, so I'll throw it in here...

As I mentioned the other day, we paid a visit to 大久野島 (Okunoshima), also known as "Bunny Island" because it's populated by "wild" rabbits that have no hesitation to appear in great numbers at the slightest suggestion of food.

You can get a cup of bunny-food pellets for 100 yen (US$1.25), and even borrow gloves if you want (though they're not really needed). You can also rent bicycles and enjoy rides on paths all around. The island is small -- a bit more than half a square mile -- but mountainous, and bunnies are pretty much everywhere, though less in [...]

We spent the day at Okunoshima Island (大久野島), a small island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea with an unsavory history, now better known as "Rabbit Island" because of its large population of wild rabbits. The rabbits have domesticated humans, having them provide food in return for the rabbits looking cute. Anthony has been a couple of times with Fumie's folks, but today was the first time we took him.

We had to leave before sunset, but it was still a pleasant view.

After arriving back on the mainland, the ferry turned around for the next trip...

(It's not really heading [...]