I know you are probably getting tired of this, but this is the sixth installment of the “Man who takes pics of the Tadami Line for only 3 days” series. Please bear with me a little longer.
This time, I tried to take a bird’s-eye view of the countryside from Futanuma Forest Park in Aizu Misato-cho, another famous photo shooting location (so-called “Negishi overhead view”), away from the Tadami River.
The resulting photographs are these two.
The first is this one of the Aizu Wakamatsu-bound train toddling through the patchwork of mowed fields.
Another one, with a slightly different angle and vertical composition, is this one with a wrapped extra train running to Aizu Kawaguchi.
The reason the picture looks a bit white and smoky is that the conditions were such that the clouds did not completely clear. I am grateful that I was able to get these pictures under such condition. I brought the HD DA55-300mm PLM for this shoot and it didn’t go to waste.
This is how the Aizu Basin looked like 30 minutes before the train passed by.
It was so cloudy when I was taking pictures around Tadami River in the morning that I feared to be wasting my time in Futanuma.
Condition was getting better but the wind was weak and the white clouds that had been descending over the basin would not clear for any length of time.
I prayed that the clouds would go away, and took this picture with a banner at the site to escape from reality.
By the way, here is where the photo was taken. There is a large parking lot by the administration
cottage of the forest park, and next to the arbor in the corner of the lot, you can set up a tripod without hesitation over the fence. Here, you don’t have to worry about bears.
And yet, aside from me being concerned, the view is white.
So I am just grateful that I was able to take the first two pictures so well.
A little information for those who are going to visit Futanuma Forest Park for the first time.
There seem to be three paths leading up to the administration cottage, and I took two of them on my way up and down, but both were quite narrow and made me nervous. I was especially nervous on the road going up from the Hoyoji temple side, and asked myself several times if this was really the right road indicated by the car navigation system. The road is barely paved, but it is absolutely impossible to pass oncoming cars, and even if you drive in the middle of the road in a small car, you will have to push the surrounding vegetation aside with the left and right sides of your body and the roof.
Yes you are on the right road, but please be careful. It’s worth the thrill of the climb.
Well, there are still a few stories left to tell, so I guess I will continue this series just one more time.
Equipment used: K-3III, HD DA55-300mm PLM, GF10, LUMIX G12-32mm
