Kurama lanterns

by nils

5 comments

1 Niko { 02.26.03 at 9:58 pm }

Wow I wish I could wander up those stairs, looks inviting. Unfortunately I can’t use the DT pic (it’s too small) boo..

I like your pictures btw, It makes me want to visit.

2 Kurt { 02.27.03 at 12:38 am }

Nils,
same here….why don’t you make a 1024×768 version too?

shameless plug here:
I have some wallpapers of some Japan images I took last year in both 1152×870 and 1024×768 sizes (but no 800×600 size, natch!), here.

3 nils { 02.27.03 at 8:17 am }

I will scan it bigger when I find the print again, but I should take a digital pic next time. I think I took this in 1997. Just after a rain is the best time, when the stones are wet they show their character. This is near my home, on the Eizan Dentetsu (railway). My train is a “one-man car”-type, you take a ticket like a bus, and pay the driver at the till in front. if you continue past my house and fully leave town, you wind between the foothills and the line ends at Kurama.

4 Kurt { 02.27.03 at 2:46 pm }

oh, it’s a scan!? i just assumed it was digital (and indeed, i was musing to myself, awfully beautiful pic for a digital shot….i love those small train lines, winding through towns…took one in Matsumoto a couple of months ago, and the Arakawa line in Tokyo is nice like this as well….you feel like you’re traveling in folks’ backyards.

5 nils { 02.27.03 at 6:50 pm }

The poor old Nikon and its equipment bag are gathering dust, sad to say. It deserves better. Many of my archive photos were taken with a lower-res (max 640×480, same as my new keitai cam!) Sony Mavica FD-75 (FD is for Floppy Disk, hence the low res). I was against memory sticks and flash cards, and mistakenly thought they would be a hassle. More recent photos are taken with 3.2 megapixel Sony Cybershot P-71.

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