http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/images/CoolIrisLogo.png Fresh Green Canopy [Keywords: Japan Jindaishokubutskouen Jindaishokubutsu Park MBP spring] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-3083 This is a Tony Sweet technique - you pan the camera downwards with a longish shutter speed. I love this effect! [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2012 Japan Japanese White Birch MBP White Birch tree winter pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2968 This is a Tony Sweet technique - you pan the camera downwards with a longish shutter speed. I love this effect! [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2012 Japan Japanese White Birch MBP White Birch tree winter pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2967 This is a Tony Sweet technique - you pan the camera downwards with a longish shutter speed. I love this effect! [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2012 Japan Japanese White Birch MBP White Birch tree winter pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2966 [Keywords: Japan MBP SFX2 winter tree snow ice lake swan whooper pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2641 This is the tree next to where Michael Kenna's famous tree used to be. It got sick and was cut down last year apparently. [Keywords: Japan MBP SFX2 winter tree snow ice lake swan whooper pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2639 [Keywords: Japan Jindaishokubutskouen Jindaishokubutsu Park MBP autuman fall foliage leaves red tree winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2584 [Keywords: Japan Jindaishokubutskouen Jindaishokubutsu Park Lagerstroemia indica MBP blue clouds crape myrtle foliage sky tree winter winter tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2583 [Keywords: Japan Jindaishokubutskouen Jindaishokubutsu Park Lagerstroemia indica MBP blue clouds crape myrtle foliage sky tree winter winter tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2582 Behind the gallery of Shinzou Maeda, the photographer that put Biei on the map. Unfortunately they are now closing for the winter months, so we could not enjoy his photographs during my 2010 Hokkaido Workshop. Nice garden though! [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2010 Japan Mount Asahi Mt Asahi asahidake biei tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2507 Behind the gallery of Shinzou Maeda, the photographer that put Biei on the map. Unfortunately they are now closing for the winter months, so we could not enjoy his photographs during my 2010 Hokkaido Workshop. Nice garden though! [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2010 Japan Mount Asahi Mt Asahi asahidake biei tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2506 [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2010 Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2498 [Keywords: Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2010 Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2497 [Keywords: Bihoro Pass Hokkaido Hokkaido_Feb2010 Japan] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2480 [Keywords: Japan Jindaishokubutsukouen autumn drab fall grey sky leaf leaves monotone tree winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2421 [Keywords: autumn foliage autumn leaves kaede Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2387 Shot in the Oirase Mountain Stream area, Aomori Prefecture. [Keywords: Japan tree leaves leaf green fresh Tohoku_July2009 tall trunk] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2308 [Keywords: aerial root, Bald cypress, Japan, rakuushou, root, Shinjuku Gyoen, Shinjukugyoen, Taxodium distichum, tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2284 [Keywords: branch, Japan, maple, Shinjukugyoen, tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2283 [Keywords: canopy trunk Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2279 [Keywords: crape myrtle trunk] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2277 The Bald Cypress is a North American tree, that lives in or near swamps and wetlands. These are the aerial roots that the tree uses to breath, as most of the root is permanently under water. The whole scene didn't interest me so much, but these roots look like hands reaching out of a bed of lilies! [Keywords: aerial root Bald cypress hand Japan lily Ornithogalum orthophyllum rakuushou root Shinjuku Gyoen spring Taxodium distichum] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2267 This is a shot of a line of trees on Bihoro Pass in Hokkaido that kept haunting me from my library. I played with it in Photoshop for an hour or so, but couldn't get used to the look I kept coming back to. Finally, I spend three minutes playing with the tone curve in Lightroom, and this is the result. [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 frost winter snow tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2246 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2197 These are behind Takushinkan, Shinzou Maeda's Gallery in Biei. [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2186 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2185 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2184 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2183 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2182 These trees in Biei are called the Oyako no Ki, literally parent and child trees. [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2181 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2178 The last sun of the day shines weakly through a gap in the trees above the horizon. [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2177 [Keywords: Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2176 [Keywords: Bihoro Pass Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 dawn hoar frost hoarfrost tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2148 [Keywords: Bihoro Pass Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 dawn hoar frost hoarfrost tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2147 [Keywords: Bihoro Pass Hokkaido_Feb2009 Hokkaido_Workshop_2009 hoar frost hoarfrost tree winter snow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2146 A tree with fairy lights at the Shouwakinen Park Christmas illuminations. [Keywords: dusk fairy lights illuminations Japan lights Shouwakinenkouen tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2072 A tree with fairy lights at the Shouwakinen Park Christmas illuminations. [Keywords: dusk fairy lights illuminations Japan lights Shouwakinenkouen tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2071 With Mount Fuji just visible next to the sun on the horizon. [Keywords: Japan Mount Fuji Mt Fuji Shouwakinenkouen sunset tree winter tree wintry tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2070 Icy waves break on the shore of the Inawashiro Lake, as the snow blows across the scene almost horizontally. [Keywords: Inawashiro Lake Inawashiro_Lake_Dec_2008 Japan lake snow tree winter 2008_Best_10] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2058 Three swans flew by as I shot the wintry tree. There was actually a little more room between the swans and the tree, but I used Content Aware Scaling in CS4 to bring them a little closer together. [Keywords: Inawashiro Lake Inawashiro_Lake_Dec_2008 Japan lake snow tree winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2057 Here's a horizontal version of a lone tree on the bank of the Inawashiro Lake in a snow storm. [Keywords: Inawashiro Lake Inawashiro_Lake_Dec_2008 Japan lake snow tree winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2056 This is two vertical shots stitched together. There was no way I could switch lenses out, so I shot two images with the 300mm F2.8 for this. [Keywords: Inawashiro Lake Inawashiro_Lake_Dec_2008 Japan snow tree winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2046 A section of trees at dawn, by the Inawashiro Lake. [Keywords: Inawashiro Lake, Inawashiro_Lake_Dec_2008, Japan, snow, tree, winter] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2045 [Keywords: Rinshinomorikouen, Japan, tree, autumn] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2015 [Keywords: Rinshinomorikouen Japan tree autumn] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2014 [Keywords: Rinshinomorikouen Japan tree autumn yellow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2012 [Keywords: Rinshinomorikouen Japan tree autumn yellow] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2011 [Keywords: Rinshinomorikouen Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2010 [Keywords: Japan TS-E tree autumn] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2008 [Keywords: Japan autumn tree water reflection colourful colorful jindaishokubutsukouen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2002 [Keywords: Japan autumn tree water reflection colourful colorful jindaishokubutsukouen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2001 [Keywords: Japan leaves autumn tree needles jindaishokubutsukouen 2008_Best_10] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-2000 [Keywords: Japan leaves autumn red orange yellow maple kaede jindaishokubutsukouen 2008_Best_10] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1997 [Keywords: Japan autumn tree shadow radiant sun jindaishokubutsukouen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1996 [Keywords: Japan leaves autumn yellow maple kaede jindaishokubutsukouen tree pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1994 [Keywords: Japan leaves autumn yellow maple kaede jindaishokubutsukouen pfp] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1992 [Keywords: Japan, torii, tree, TS-E] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1970 [Keywords: Shinjuku_Gyoen Japan tree TS-E] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1964 [Keywords: Shinjuku_Gyoen Japan tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1963 [Keywords: autumn_leaves trunk Japan red tree bark] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1945 [Keywords: Japan Yachihokougen Yachihokougen_MayJune2008] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1800 [Keywords: Japan tree sky blue Hokkaido_Winter_Workshop_2008] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1716 [Keywords: Inawashiro Japan Inawashiro_Jan2008 tree] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1669 [Keywords: Japan autumn fall tree leaves Shigakougen_Oct2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1600 [Keywords: Japan spring leaves green Inawashiro Inawashiro_May2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1454 [Keywords: Japan Inawashiro Tatsuzawa Falls Tatsuzawa Fudoudaki paint_balls Inawashiro_May2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1453 Academic name: Fagus crenata [Keywords: Japan tree leave Yachihokougen Yachihokougen_May2007 bokeh_example] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1429 [Keywords: Japan leaves tree bark Yachihokougen Yachihokougen_May2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1427 [Keywords: Japan tree flower Cherry_Blossom_2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1369 [Keywords: Japan tree flower Cherry_Blossom_2007] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1368 [Keywords: Japan autumn leaves tree Shinjuku Gyoen shinjuku_gyoen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1169 [Keywords: Japan tree gradation cloud Shigakougen_Oct_2006 Shigakougen_Oct14_15_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1147 [Keywords: Japan tree pond water reflection Shigakougen_Oct_2006 Shigakougen_Oct14_15_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1138 [Keywords: Japan autumn leaves trees colourful ShibutougeOct7_2006 Shigakougen_Oct_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1130 [Keywords: Japan autumn leaves trees colourful ShibutougeOct7_2006 Shigakougen_Oct_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1126 [Keywords: Japan autumn leaves trees colourful ShibutougeOct7_2006 Shigakougen_Oct_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1125 [Keywords: Japan trees silver birch Hokkaido_July2006 OiraseHokkaidoJuly2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1058 [Keywords: Japan trees Hokkaido_July2006 OiraseHokkaidoJuly2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1053 [Keywords: Japan river water mist tree Oirase_July2006 OiraseHokkaidoJuly2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1038 [Keywords: Nikko_May_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-1018 I can hardly call this a silver birch can I? [Keywords: Japan tree sky gold Nikko_May_2006] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-997 This young couple were buying a ticket to get a cup of Japanese tea and a small sweet, but I decided to keep the tree as the main subject and make the viewer work a little. [Keywords: Japan tree couple pink sakura tea-house] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-959 This is a tree that would have had a load of red leaves left on it the day before we arrived. The strong winds had blow most of them off. I really like the shape of the bare trees though. [Keywords: Japan autumn leaves trees colourful bare] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-772 I love just standing under huge trees like these Platanus x acerifolia and from time to time taking their photo. [Keywords: Japan tree trees leaves Shinjuku_Gyoen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-716 These bamboo are in the middle of the Hase Dera (Temple) complex near Kamakura. I used a super wide angle lens to emphasise the height of the bamboo and hid the sun behind one of the poles to avoid too much flare. [Keywords: Japan bamboo green spring tall] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-622 The sun was lighting the scene from about 45degrees to the left, making for a pleasing reflection in the pond at the Shinjuku Gyoen Park. [Keywords: Japan reflection spring lake water Shinjuku_Gyoen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-612 I just love the form of this little tree that is covered with rusty red lace-like leaves each spring. I've photographed it a number of times and never really managed to captured too well until today. I kind of like this shot. [Keywords: Japan spring tree Shinjuku_Gyoen] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-611 It was dissapointing that we were a few weeks too early for all the leaves to be bright red, but when faced with scenes like this.... [Keywords: Japan leaves green moss] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-512 These bright leaves against the blue sky look as though they could be almost on fire. This was on the path that takes you around the side of the lake with the Kinkakuji Temple (or Golden Pagoda) in the middle. This is proof of the importance of continuing to look around you, even when faced with something as beautiful as the Golden Pagoda. [Keywords: Japan leaves Autumn fiery blue sky tree leaves] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-510 This is the same photo as uploaded [url=http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-212]here[/url], but I ran the [url=https://www.fredmiranda.com/shopping/affiliate.php?id=41]Fred Miranda Digital Darkroom[/url] Digital Infrared Emulation filter in PhotoShop to create this contrasty image. [Keywords: Japan tree winter Rinshinomori_Park other] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-439 This is a large Japanese maple tree in Spring just as it's covered itself with glossy new leaves. [Keywords: Japan tree Shinjuku_Gyoen green Spring] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-377 The dried winder grass contrasted against the bright blue sky on a cold Winter's day in Shinjuku. This large park is an oasis, five minutes walk from the unbelievably crowded Shinjuku centre. [Keywords: Japan grass tree winter landscape Shinjuku_Gyoen MBP_Landscapes_Japan_Screen_Saver] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-84 This small red bud sprouting from the white tree caught my attention in Shouwa Memorial Park in Tachikawa, Tokyo. [Keywords: Japan tree bud Shouwa_Memorial_Park shouwakinenkouen other MBP_Flowers_Screen_Saver] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-55 Toufuku Temple is famous for it red Autumn leaves or "Kouyou". This shot was just inside the outer gate looking back at one of the main viewing points. [Keywords: Japan tree autumn-leaves leaves momiji kouyou autumn other MBP_Landscapes_Japan_Screen_Saver] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-37 I took this I think in the January of 1992, just outside my apartment when I lived in Fukushima, in Touhoku (North East) Japan. [Keywords: Japan tree snow winter black-and-white other] http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/displayimage.php?pos=-18