It's the season for...
Rice fields, beautiful sunsets, and fireflies (and rain, but we haven't had much of that yet).
Kogushi sunset
Emiko's freshly planted rice field
Dinner made by Emiko
Mmmm cake from Santa Claus bakery!
Angie, Naru, Mitsuru: on the way to firefly viewing in Emiko's car
Fireflies are VERY hard to photograph in the pitch-black night! This was the best I could do!
I had been told that it's not good to eat sakura cherries, but I tried some and they taste just like choke cherries, but a little more bitter! This is me with cherry juice war-paint. I think I look like a piranha in this picture. Must be the underbite.
with Angie
My "English Circle" group (most of them, anyway). Without them I would have been sadly lacking in "rural Japan" cultural activities this past year. It was thanks to Emiko (far right) that I got to try rice planting and harvesting, and see fireflies, and thanks to Mitsuko (missing from picture) that I got to wear a real kimono and experience tea ceremony. I am really grateful to them for being so very helpful and giving me such wonderful experiences this year!
Up the San-in line to Yuya!
On Sunday afternoon I headed up the San-in train line towards Nagato-shi in search of terraced rice fields to photograph. Unfortunately, without a car it is really hard to get close to the good rice field views, but I was prepared for this and willing to walk! I walked for about 3 hours and found a few decent fields to photograph before having the good fortune to come across another photographer with a minivan, who I talked into taking me with him in search of ricefields. He was from Oita, so didn't know the area any better than me, but we followed some signs up to an absolutely gorgeous (and apparently really famous) area called something like "100 ricefields" (from what I could read of the sign).
Kogushi seaside
Yuya-cho farms. I met many curious elderly farmers along the way.
The 100 ricefields
Ah...Japan's camera culture. It's a bit extreme, but I love it!
And this is what they were all waiting for: the little illuminated boats
Kogushi sunset
Emiko's freshly planted rice field
Dinner made by Emiko
Mmmm cake from Santa Claus bakery!
Angie, Naru, Mitsuru: on the way to firefly viewing in Emiko's car
Fireflies are VERY hard to photograph in the pitch-black night! This was the best I could do!
I had been told that it's not good to eat sakura cherries, but I tried some and they taste just like choke cherries, but a little more bitter! This is me with cherry juice war-paint. I think I look like a piranha in this picture. Must be the underbite.
with Angie
My "English Circle" group (most of them, anyway). Without them I would have been sadly lacking in "rural Japan" cultural activities this past year. It was thanks to Emiko (far right) that I got to try rice planting and harvesting, and see fireflies, and thanks to Mitsuko (missing from picture) that I got to wear a real kimono and experience tea ceremony. I am really grateful to them for being so very helpful and giving me such wonderful experiences this year!Up the San-in line to Yuya!
On Sunday afternoon I headed up the San-in train line towards Nagato-shi in search of terraced rice fields to photograph. Unfortunately, without a car it is really hard to get close to the good rice field views, but I was prepared for this and willing to walk! I walked for about 3 hours and found a few decent fields to photograph before having the good fortune to come across another photographer with a minivan, who I talked into taking me with him in search of ricefields. He was from Oita, so didn't know the area any better than me, but we followed some signs up to an absolutely gorgeous (and apparently really famous) area called something like "100 ricefields" (from what I could read of the sign).
Kogushi seaside
Yuya-cho farms. I met many curious elderly farmers along the way.
The 100 ricefields
Ah...Japan's camera culture. It's a bit extreme, but I love it!And this is what they were all waiting for: the little illuminated boats
posted by Laura at 7:03 a.m.
1 Comments:
Beautiful photos Laura! I would say that some of them are JET Calendar 2008 material for sure; or at least Saanichton Fair material. ;)
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