Mt. Fuji
It may be the most (over-)photographed site in Japan, and every year publishers feed the Fuji fetish by producing new "mooks" (magazine-books) on every possible aspect of it.
The sheer volume of "Fuji and cherries," "Diamond Fuji" and other such shots will make any reader weary after a while.
Still, I can see it from the roof of the house. No visual paradigm shifts here--just a personal appreciation the vista offered by the mountain and its place in our daily lives in Fujisawa
Just before moon set in Fujisawa. This is a composite image. In a single shot, either the moon's face would be over exposed, or the rest would be under exposed. I opted to overlap a different moon shot to represent what I actually see. Taken from the roof of the house.
The Fuji Safari Park lies to the SE of the mountain. From afar, the "skirts" rise gracefully to the peak, but in fact the 1705 eruption created is a large caldera on this side. Just outside the northern parking area of the Park lies a huge open field with this unobstructed view of the southern face.
Hoei-san (the rift created by the 1705 eruption). View point from the main village in the Safari Park at the base of the mountain.
Seascape from the west side of Enoshima at low tide.
From the entrance to the caves on the seaward side of Enoshima. According to tradition, this was a place for religious ascetics who made the pilgrimage to Enoshima's temple-shrine complex to practice austerities. Now, for a mere 500 yen, you can enter the caves. The "Merry Christmas" wish is a nice, if ironic, touch reflecting the present secular nature of the site, and its strong associations with Japan's Buddhist/Shinto heritage.
Silhouette at dusk.
The peak at dusk. Taken with a D70s and a K-mount 180-600 f8 lens at 600mm.
This is the view from Inamura-ga-saki in Kamakura. Looking west, the beach in the foreground is Shichiri-ga-hama. (Disclosure: this view required quite a bit of post processing to remove unsightly florescent lights.) This was taken with a 70-180mm f4.5 macrozoom on my old D70s.
