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Sunset over Okinawa main island, seen from Miyagi Island.

Print version dimensions: 4287*2846px]]> Jari Juslin photo Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:59:42 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32330 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32330
Street view from Yoe's home village on Miyagi Island.

Like in this image, weathered concrete, narrow streets and overwhelming vegetation are very typical for villages on these islands. As you can see, the rooftops are not just laid from tiles, but the tiles are instead tied to a concrete base.

Just couple of weeks after taking this image a class 3 typhoon passed right over this spot - it indeed pays off to keep everything outdoors laid into heavy amounts of concrete.

Print version resolution: 2856*4290px.]]> Jari Juslin photo Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:02:38 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32315 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32315
This is very typical for Miyagi Island in Okinawa - reef-originating rock formations, sand beach and this particular kind of plant. Practically every shoreline point had some amount of these elements.

Combined of three identical exposures in ALE to cut noise, color-corrected, nothing else.

Print version dimensions: 2856*4290]]> Jari Juslin photo Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:49:57 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32290 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32290
Miyagi Island, Okinawa. This is one of the better hidden beaches on Miyagi Island, hard enough to reach by land I was almost too afraid to go there at all.

The reason why locals avoid all bushes and trees after sunset is snakes. Okinawa hosts fair number of deadly poisonous snakes, and one of them likes to climb at trees. However, it's quite bad at climbing and often falls down - and if it falls on you, it bites.

As you can see, I went there in the end and stayed to sunset and then took the trip back in quite fast pace. And it paid off!

Print version dimensions: 4290*2856px]]> Jari Juslin photo Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:07:02 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32286 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32286
Miyagi Island, Okinawa. Miyagi Island, like many other parts of Okinawa, is mostly former coral reef. The corals have reformed limestone for their own purposes and while it's soft rock to begin with, after the coral treatment it's fulls of holes and cavities. Concrete constructs like the one in this image have been built to prevent coral rock hills crumbling down to roads and to discourage landslides.

Because coral-formed rock is very typical to Okinawa, installations like this can be seen everywhere in the islands.

This image is composed from four equal exposures in ALE, tonemapped with Qtpfsgui and then post-processed. It's techinally a composite image, but it is very close to what I saw with my eyes.

Print version dimensions: 4290*2856px]]> Jari Juslin photo Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:04:16 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32283 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=32283
A broken plastic chair on a hidden beach on the Miyagi Island, Okinawa.

This image is composed from four equal exposures in ALE, tonemapped with Qtpfsgui and then post-processed.

Print version dimensions: 4290*2865px]]> Jari Juslin photo Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:55:40 +0300 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20849 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20849
This started as an attempt to image of a pine tree that looked cool, being clad in frost and snow, against solid layer of clouds painted orange by street lights.

However, I didn't have tripod, so I shot it as several underexposed frames and then combined them later in ALE. I think I didn't have enough source frames, or then the lack of blue wavelengths was just so complete my camera sensor could not properly register such small amounts.

Anyway, after ALE treatment I tried to correct the colors and this is what I got. I looks like pop art to me, and interesting, while totally accidental.

I later re-shot it and got more realistic colors, but having seen this, they looked just way too boring.

So I decided to go with the interesting instead of realistic and stick with the pop art :-).

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After dark, cloudy and rainy November, December has arrived bringing light and frost around. All hail winter!

Print version dimensions: 3264*2448px]]> Jari Juslin photo Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:35:16 +0200 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20730 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20730
After dark, cloudy and rainy November, December has arrived bringing light and frost around. All hail winter!

Print version dimensions: 3264*2448px]]> Jari Juslin photo Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:34:42 +0200 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20648 http://zds.iki.fi/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=20648
Tree outside Spektri Kvartti in her autumn dress.

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