{"id":651,"date":"2012-12-18T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-03-23T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T14:40:47","slug":"shooting-mount-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/shooting-mount-fuji","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Mount Fuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to see Mount Fuji (known in Japan as <em>fujisan\/<\/em>\u5bcc\u58eb\u5c71) and I finally got to see it in my recent trip to Japan. Very luckily for me, the weather was excellent for the entire trip (other than 1 overcast day and an evening of rain.)\u00a0Thanks to the excellent weather, I managed to see and capture Mount Fuji from various locations &#8211; from a distance away as well as from a closer location.<\/p>\n<p>My first encounter with the elusive snow-capped mountain was when I was up at the observation deck of the Tokyo Tower. Walking around the observation deck, I caught the snow-capped mountain peaking above the many skyscrapers in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8217\/8270161694_ba58e294a0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Mt. Fuji and Tokyo City from Tokyo Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->I caught a closer view of Mount Fuji when I went to Hakone for a day trip.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8222\/8269166689_55c9c27dbd_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Fuji forms the perfect backdrop for Lake Ashinoko at Hakone, Japan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8218\/8270245330_76c63f958b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Fuji among the fall colours as seen from the Hakone Ropeway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, while at Lake Kawaguchiko, one of the largest of the Fuji 5 lakes, Mount Fuji revealed her beauty once again. This is also the place I shot the most pictures of Japan&#8217;s iconic mountain. Because of strong reflections on the lake from the sun, I have to find creative ways to minimize it.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8199\/8269190025_e10a795ed3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two tourists walk along the coast of Lake Kawaguchiko outside the Kawaguchiko Natural Living Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8064\/8269190511_1e7dc7850e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A near barren tree silhouetted against Mount Fuji.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8357\/8270261994_d69270a2ae_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Fuji framed by the red leaves of the maple trees at the Koyo Tunnel at Lake Kawaguchiko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8353\/8269198585_59d4413e03_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of Mount Fuji shot on a Nikon 1 V1, FT-1 adaptor and Nikkor AF-S 17-55mm f\/2.8G ED-IF, giving a 35mm equivalent of 148.5mm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, just before I left the place, I took a couple more shots.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8497\/8270288820_777ca6b576_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Fuji near sunset at Kawaguchiko Station.\u00a0Unfortunately, there wasn&#8217;t much of a sunset that day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8069\/8269224495_45837602af_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A train passes Kawaguchiko Station with Mount Fuji in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to see Mount Fuji (known in Japan as fujisan\/\u5bcc\u58eb\u5c71) and I finally got to see it in my recent trip to Japan. Very luckily for me, the weather was excellent for the entire trip (other than 1 overcast day and an evening of rain.)\u00a0Thanks to the excellent weather, I managed to see&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/shooting-mount-fuji\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting Mount Fuji<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[266,259,263,261,262,258,264,260,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}