Japan pics - Osaka, Yakushima and Kyushu

stickyfiddle

My turn! 

This was our third trip, so we were keen to find new places we hadn’t been before, so no Tokyo, Kyoto or Miyajima. 

Photos left without commentary, but happy to answer any questions. I wish we could go back.

(We made these - cooking class! They were good!)

stickyfiddle

Yakushima next. Small forest-covered island, fantastic hiking.

stickyfiddle

Finally we made our way up through Kyushu to Nagasaki and Fukuoka. In the best holiday car on Earth

breakstuff

Stunning photos. I epecially like the Yakushima ones.

stickyfiddle

And some foodie highlights

mgaw

beautiful photographs    would love to visit Japan one day

goldtop

Great shots. The size of the Aso caldera is a bit daunting, and then you realise that it's not that dormant! But those long grass fields around it are a bit dreamy. I expected some Kurosawa characters to materialise out of them 

You made your own chopsticks? That would be cool.

Niallseroreilly

This is incredible mate... class shots.

Doug

Absolutely Stunning!

Budgie

Lovely images. Particularly liking the the cool Tudor, good work!

Moominpapa

Some great pictures there - love that white cat!

stickyfiddle

goldtop said:

Great shots. The size of the Aso caldera is a bit daunting, and then you realise that it's not that dormant! But those long grass fields around it are a bit dreamy. I expected some Kurosawa characters to materialise out of them 

You made your own chopsticks? That would be cool.

Yeah, Aso was spewing a fair bit of smoke the whole time we were in the area. It actually wasn’t that impressive when we went up, compared with the views in he surrounding area.  They’d closed a 1km radius as it’s too high risk at the mo. The drive up there was fantastic though

Chopstick making was very good fun. Ours weren’t as good as the guy demonstrating, but we’ll probably put them on the wall in a little frame once I can work out how to mount them.

rocktron

Excellent pictures!!!

You took pictures of a wide variety of scenes - portrait, landscape, car, food, waterfall, feline pet, watch glass, etc . What gear did you take with you - camera, lens, filters?

BTW, looking at your pictures makes me feel hungry. . . oh, and I could go to Japan just to steal that cute cat!!! LOL

stickyfiddle

rocktron said:

Excellent pictures!!!

You took pictures of a wide variety of scenes - portrait, landscape, car, food, waterfall, feline pet, watch glass, etc . What gear did you take with you - camera, lens, filters?

BTW, looking at your pictures makes me feel hungry. . . oh, and I could go to Japan just to steal that cute cat!!! LOL

Hey, thanks

Every shot is from a Fuji X-T3, though my old X-T1 would have handled 95% of shots 99% as easily. For lenses, I took my usual trio:
  > 18-135mm - extremely good do-all travel lens
  > 35mm f1.4 - amazing in low light, and used for all the magical forest stuff and much of the food
  > 10-24mm - nice wide zoom and super all-rounder, though that honestly didn't get used much for this trip. Just the suspension bridge in the forest and the autumnal valleys.

And a couple were an iPhone XS (Hogwarts castle at Universal Osaka, and the honey-drizzled sweet potatoes. 

No filters on anything (either hardware or software!). Everything has been processed lightly in Lightroom on my iPad, but no significant photoshopping or anything like that.

ThePrettyDamned

Lovely stuff. Looks like you had a wonderful time. 

danishbacon

Amazing, nice tudor

equalsql

Stunning photos those are. The colours and composition are superb. Are you a pro photographer by any chance?

stickyfiddle

equalsql said:

Stunning photos those are. The colours and composition are superb. Are you a pro photographer by any chance?

No, I work in finance, but thank you! 

I am considering how to get into doing something creative with food for a living, likely photography at the centre of that. But it's a fair way off and will need a lot of work.

boogieman

Nice set of shots.  That waterfall pic is a cracker. 

stickyfiddle

boogieman said:

Nice set of shots.  That waterfall pic is a cracker. 

First or second waterfall?

Assuming the second, I'm rather proud of it. It's a lovely two-part falls that you can walk behind. There were inevitably a bazillion other togs there with tripods and 10-stop filters doing the standard long-exposure (I did the same, sans-tripod but with my camera balance on my wooly hat, which is my go-to approach for longer exposures rather than cart a tripod around the world with me). 

But on the way back up I spotted that the rock to the right would make a great position to take a more interesting shot from (it's the one in the pic below, just behind the right-hand bit of waterfall). I only took about 4 exposures, all in the space of around 30 seconds, but this one came out pretty much perfect.

RaymondLin

lovely photos