Cloud on the summit of Mt. Fuji at sunset
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I sat in front of the computer all day today and still didn’t get anything done. How can this be? At sunset, having seen my daughter off to her art class, I went for a walk so that I could say I had at least accomplished something.
There are three good sunset viewing places nearby. Which one is worth visiting depends, as does everything, entirely on the sky. One faces west-north-south, but Fuji is obscured behind the corner of a nearby apartment building. Another faces north-east-south with views to Shinjuku and Yokohama. The third faces due west and provides only a narrow field of view but, on a good evening, this is what you see.
Update: Desktop pictures available (I hope the quality is adequate; don’t have time to do them properly):
Control-click (or right-click) and choose “Save link as…” or “Download link” or whatever your browser’s equivalent happens to be. No responsibility taken if you go blind from having a bright orange desktop picture.
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Posted to Photographs • 2004.02.04 (Wed) • 22:23
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Posted by Eduardo 2004.02.04, 22:51
Very nice, I have to say that I love your photos. What camera do you use?
In the lighter side, this “cant-do-anything-productive” thing happens to me sometimes, you better go do something else until it goes away.
Posted by brent 2004.02.04, 23:10
brilliant, just brilliant.
Posted by Heck 2004.02.04, 23:32
Send it to NASA and tell them you’ve already been to Mars. What an amazing sky.
Posted by Massimo Fiorentino 2004.02.05, 00:15
Wooow! What a picture!! Yeah, I’m also interested in what equipment you use…! (^_^)
Posted by Gambit 2004.02.05, 05:41
Great pic, its beautiful…
Posted by Chris Vincent 2004.02.05, 05:56
Wow. It looks like an illustration. The clouds behind the mountain look like fire.
Posted by seriocomic 2004.02.05, 08:07
Wow, a great illustration on how to shift one’s preconception of such an iconic image. Fuji-san against such a magnificient backdrop still manages to hold it’s own, even in silhouette.
Well done Mr Hedley.
Posted by Kyle 2004.02.05, 09:53
Great pic! :)
You guys can check out his colophon to see what equipment he uses! (the gory details link on the homepage)
Posted by poocat 2004.02.05, 11:16
damn. that’s gorgeous!
mind if i borrow that for a desktop? (i lived with fuji out my window from 9/01-8/03 and miss it dearly…)
Posted by sroughto 2004.02.05, 13:24
I do that all the time, sit in front of the computer and accomplish nothing. Been here all day, not much to show for it. A walk, now that’s worth something - especially if you wind up with a memory of Mount Fuji in any state of being. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by pao 2004.02.05, 14:07
this is amazing. thanks for sharing it ^^. your blog has a tranquil aura, keep it up, you’re one of my daily reads. ^^
Posted by Joerg Schaum 2004.02.05, 16:19
Ahhhh!
Fuji-san!
saikoh ;-)
Posted by Mr. X 2004.02.06, 04:02
I’ve been totally stressed out (living in NYC and all…) and just logging on your blog made me instantly feel about 25% zennier. I thank you for that.
Is there any way at all I could get a 1680X1050 (seriously… :) for my desktop? Or you think the orange would be too intense at such a scale?
I included my e-mail in case you have the time…
Thanks either way :)
Posted by danbee 2004.02.06, 17:27
That’s a fantastic photo! But then every photo I see on your blog is a photo I wanted to have taken…
Posted by Eric 2004.02.07, 05:51
Magnificent! Once again you have captured a wonderful facet of the personality of Fuji-san. More than any other in the world, I miss that beautiful sight.
Posted by Chris 2004.02.09, 10:52
Not sure what you used to enlarge the image, but you might want to try out the 30-day demo of Smartscale (http://www.extensis.com/pxlsmartscale/). It does a good job for me when blowing up hi-res images.
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