A Message from Hakusan Creation

Posted on January 26, 2015 by HakusanCreation

Naomi and I want to thank all our visitors to our site for coming so regularly. This year seems to be shaping up to be an exciting one for us. We hope to announce a few publishing projects in the coming months as well as a few projects we would like to publish through our site.

For a little over a year, we have been posting five times a week. It has been fun, if not challenging. But because of our publishing projects and a desire to keep our posts as fresh and interesting as possible, we will be cutting back a bit to three posts a week.

As always, if you would like to see this photograph taken in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire a little larger, click on the image.

Winter Seas, Part 2

Posted on January 22, 2015 by HakusanCreation

These rocks at Pemaquid Point can look very different in other seasons. Click on the image for a larger view.

Winter Seas, Part 1

Posted on January 21, 2015 by HakusanCreation

The Gulf of Maine in winter has a hardness not evident in the other seasons. Click on the image for a larger view.

Winter Forest Panorama

Posted on January 20, 2015 by HakusanCreation

Our forest after a storm. Our oldest apple tree is on the left of the image in the foreground. We are unsure of the variety, but it seems to bare fruit biennially. We are hoping to get apples from it this year. Click on the image for a larger view.

Snags

Posted on January 19, 2015 by HakusanCreation

It was a gray winter day yesterday. I came across this snag, a dead standing tree. Snags have very little use to the human residents of a forest as they are usually too rotten to have any value for lumber or even firewood, but they do have great value to the other residents and the forest itself. As you can see, the snag is a great feeding post for our woodpeckers and flickers. When the tree finally falls, it will act as water storage for the forest. Click on the image for a larger view.

The Tokyo Rail System

Posted on January 16, 2015 by HakusanCreation

The Tokyo rail system is an amazing network. The greater Tokyo rails system, comprising of forty-eight operators, moves nearly forty million people—daily. The subway, which serves only a part of central Tokyo, moves over eight million people. To put that into context, the New York subway system moves over five million people on weekdays and Germany’s entire rail system carries ten million people each day. And the magic of this, with its 2,200 stations and nearly 3,000 miles of track (about 4,700km), the whole thing runs on time. Click on the image for a larger view.

Tokyo Bay

Posted on January 15, 2015 by HakusanCreation

The bay area of Tokyo is a fascinating mix of industry and entertainment. Between the factories are parks and residences. Much of the land in this image is artificial; some of it old landfills for the city’s waste. What surprises me is the number of sport fishermen that use the bay. Click on the image for a larger view.

Imperial Palace, Tokyo

Posted on January 14, 2015 by HakusanCreation

The Imperial Palace is almost a fortress to protect a forest from the dominating concrete city surrounding it. While it is home to the Japanese imperial family and the imperial household agency that supports it, much of the area is covered in trees. Seimon Ishibashi (Seimon stone bridge) and Fushimi keep mark one of the most iconic views of the palace—an entranced reserved for the imperial family and special guests. Between the emperor’s birthday on December 23rd and January 4th, the bridge is illuminated, becoming a magnet for photographers. LEDs were installed for the first time in 2014. Click on the image for a larger view.