The season was right for the trees, the weather forecast was for a sunny day, and I had a free morning so I headed for Arashiyama. Leaving home while it was still dark, this time on my bike. Heading to the Hankyu station, catching two trains and arriving in Arashiyama just before sunrise, only to find that it was very grey, overcast and foggy. After waiting around for an hour and thinking the light was not going to improve, I headed back for the train station. When I almost got there, the sun came out, so I decided to stay longer in Arashiyama. This time, I walked further up along the river than I had been before, where I noticed this big tree. I also saw boats coming up and down the river so I waited for one to come along and got this shot. After this shot I headed back home feeling pretty confident that I had nailed it. After getting the film back from the lab (it takes a week for Velvia at my local photo place) I was pretty stoked. I thought I had reached photographic nirvana and Ritsuko was telling me to enter it in this years photo comp. Then I did a Google image search on Arashiyama and found similar images came up, so then I felt I have to work harder to shake myself out of photographic cliches.

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