Autumn is my favorite season in Japan. The cool air in the morning, people wearing new fashion, the new possibilities of exploring the outdoors. Looking at these photos, one is tempted to go out more often and be captivated by the changing colors of nature.
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Nice parody Mike :)
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You've found some truly breathtaking shots there. It inspires one to go out and take photos too!
Not complete without an autumnal onsen picture. Nice but incomplete.
Wow. These are great!
Thanks for the comments. Taking pictures outdoors in autumn is good, but browsing through flickr is easier.
Hope you do try and get some photos of autumn yourself to make a companion post to go with the shots you collected from Flickr.
Amazing. Inspires me to want to learn how to take photos better.
@ brb - I know - it seems like everyone on flickr is so damn good at photography!
do you think this is because the rise of digital cameras has made photography much easier? (photo-editing, etc.)
I do think the rise of digital cameras has resulted in there being more good photographs more easily available to be viewed all around the online world.
I think the barrier for entry into the world of photography has been all but eliminated thanks to the ease of taking, viewing, publishing, and sharing digital photos.
I think all the great photos on Flickr are mostly not due to photo editing skills, just the photographer's. I am impressed every day with what I see come in my contacts' photostreams on Flickr.
For a budding (or experienced even) photographer, Flickr is a great place to get tips and feedback and see what settings the pros use to get shots. I do it all the time myself actually.
"do you think this is because the rise of digital cameras has made photography much easier? (photo-editing, etc.)"
That's one reason. Digital photography lets people take a lot more pictures than before when they used film. And a few shots from hundreds are going to be good. I think the reason a lot of pictures in flickr are good is because we're seeing the best pictures of a photographer. What we don't see are the hundreds and thousands that are discarded.
Surely, the ease with which digital photos can be edited and altered and enhanced is also one reason we see a lot of good pictures in flickr.
But having posted about these colorful (and great) autumn photos, I have to say that my favorite pictures in flickr are actually black and white, not colored. There are many instances when color is distracting and overwhelming. Black and white is quiet and subdued, suitable for showing human emotions.
jcollin3k, I have some decent autumn photos of leaves and trees around Tokyo, but most of them are in film. And I doubt they'd make a better blog post.
Hmm so I'm not supposed to just throw everything onto Flickr huh? Oops lol!
I for one love digital for exactly those reasons: no shot limit (well your card size but hey that's nothin!) and lower cost. As a teenager I was attached to the family camera but was painfully aware of the cost of film and all my spare after school job money went into it. If I hadn't had an aunt with a dark room I'd never have been able to do any of it. After I left home during first yr Uni I lost access to the camera and there was no way through Uni and the early working years I could pick up film photography again.
I have now been able to afford a great camera but if I had to pay for film and access to a darkroom it really would still be beyond my reach.