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Hidden Shadow Japan

// August 13th, 2009 // Comments // photography

I’ve always like taking closeups of the leaves. The detail and color they provide is quite stunning in my opinion. Here I played with the contrast of light from the sun and the shadows of overlapping leaves. I took many shots like this and found it quite difficult to post a favorite…they all turned out rather satisfying. I am really looking forward to the autumn season and have several trips into the mountains here in Nagano to photograph the color of leaves.

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Leaves in Autumn Japan

// July 26th, 2009 // Comments // video

My most favorite season in Japan is Autumn or Fall. The leaves are just gorgeous during this time not to mention the cooler air front just after the hot, humid summer. Fall in Japan is a time when I like to get out some of my unique lenses and head up into the Nagano Alps for some truly great photo opportunities. This Video is a collection of Autumn leaves taken with my Nikon DSLR using a wide variety of Nikon prime and zoom lenses. One of the many fun challenges is to come up with unique and creative ways to photograph leaves in Autumn. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed photographing these subjects.

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Midori Fiber Japan

// July 24th, 2009 // Comments // photography

During the summer in Japan you can find some pretty interesting sorts of vegetation. These sharp sword looking vegetation are fun to photograph. There are some interesting patterns or zig zags happening in the background which turned out pretty cool as well.

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Sunflowers in Nagano City Japan

// July 15th, 2009 // Comments // photography

Sunflowers are starting to bloom here in Japan. There are many around where I live and I think they are quite fabulous to see. They can get pretty big and the yellow is very beautiful. This is just a short clip taken with the Creative Vado HD to give you an idea of how they can be seen in Japan. This particular shot was taken near Nagano city in a residential area. Although these are pretty big, you can actually find sunflowers much bigger than this around the countryside. There are also a lot of bees around them too so you have to be careful. Video by Jim Atwood Photography at http://www.jimatwood.ne