Kakeyu Onsen

Jon Siegel has added a photo to the pool:

Kakeyu Onsen

This is one of my favorite onsen areas in Nagano, famous for it's "healing" hot spring water. It's a very relaxing spot, with an excellent coffee cafe where they roast their own beans and very special sake and wine shop.

Side note but sometimes I forget the insane amount of detail the D850 captures, even when using an old antique lens like the Nikkor 35mm f1.4 ai-s.

Churning

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Churning

Yamanakako (山中湖)

Some chaotic clouds rising from the base of Mount Fuji. Another shot slightly to the right with Mount Fuji to give some sense of scale.

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Found Kodachrome Slide

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Found Kodachrome Slide

date stamped on slide August 1979

Found Slide

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Found Slide

Vienna, St. Charles' Church

Found Photograph

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Found Slide -- Ira Richolson Collection

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Found Slide -- Ira Richolson Collection

Found Photo, 1963

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Found Photo, 1963

date stamped on slide, July 1963, from a box labeled "Models, Amherst, 1963"