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Castle Skyward

Jim Atwood — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:34:22 +0000

Castle Skyward is just trying to get an interesting perspective on Nagoya Castle. Almost everywhere is looking up so it was a challenging to find something different. I wish there was a place to look down on the castle, but then I guess you couldn’t call it a castle then.

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Oden Japan

Jim Atwood — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:23:47 +0000

Oden is a popular type of dish in Japan. It was a very windy day when I took this photograph. I liked how the lines of the photograph are going in different directions.

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Everybody Jump

Jim Atwood — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:17:02 +0000

Some school kids having fun during a physical education class. I took a couple of shots not expecting much, but I managed to capture this kid in mid jump which was cool. This was shot far away as you can’t get close to kids in Japan during school as they are all fenced off like prisons, but I did manage to snag this one.

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Aging Art Japan

Jim Atwood — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:15:18 +0000

I obviously was shooting for a clearer picture, but this is a good example of where I thought the motion blur added a bit to the photo. With the colors in the background, the umbrella, and the Sakura petals on the street, I thought the photo had a rather fine art look. Thus I thought the photo came out pretty cool.

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New Year Fortune Japan

Jim Atwood — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:27:13 +0000

This is a typical paper New Year fortune found tied to trees at most temples in Japan. This is located at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City Japan. I experimented with some selective focusing to try and come up with something interesting with an otherwise ordinary piece of paper with writing on it. This is one of the challenges in photography that I find very exciting and often rewarding. Looking for new ways to shoot mundane or even enteresting objects is a lot of fun.

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Simmering Beauty

Jim Atwood — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:24:56 +0000

Simmering Beauty in Japan!

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Roof with a View

Jim Atwood — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:28:41 +0000

I was sneaking around in this adjacent cemetery to Zenkoji and found this interesting view over yonder of the big temple gateway. It was a beautiful day today as you can see. Shot was taken with my Nikon 28mm f/1.4 lens.

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Temple Guardian

Jim Atwood — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:37:35 +0000

Temple Guardian located at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City, Japan.

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Nagano Alps Japan

Jim Atwood — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:04:22 +0000

Aily overlooking the Nagano Alps in Japan.

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Yoshida Nagano Japan

Jim Atwood — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:26:51 +0000

This is the view outside my front window. It’s pretty nice to wake up to in the morning you might say. It’s a beautiful cold day with snow up in the mountains. You can see some snow up in the ski slopes. Note I don’t know how to ski or snowboard, but I wish I did. My eldest daughter Aily ( age 4 ) will be learning how to ski from her grandfather who happens to be quite a skier at 60 years old. Thus I’ll probably be up on the mountains quite a bit this season taking snow shots and everything you might find up in them there hills. Geez, one might start to wonder why I live in Nagano if I don’t frequent the onsen, hotsprings, or ski…laugh.

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