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I’ve been digging through my archives looking for pictures from which I can make prints. While hunting through the pics from our trip to Tokyo back in 2007, I came across this image. The shot is of the forests of Mount Takaosan. Mount Takao, for short, is considered sacred by the Japanese and contains several impressive shrines and a great temple at various sites on the mountain, along with a monkey habitat and small village. It’s somewhere around 45 minutes by train from the center of Tokyo and is still technically within the city itself, though it feels a world away when you’re there.

At the time, I may have underestimated this picture when viewed alongside all of the hustle and bustle shots from the city, but now that I’ve come back around and spent a little time with it, I really like the colors and layers as your eye trails off into the distance. It looks great printed too. It’s interesting that as I start to accumulate a fair amount of photos, it sometimes takes sitting on an image, or forgetting about it completely and coming back around to it later, to appreciate something that didn’t make a big impression the first time around.

*In the interest of sharing, I’d like to send an 8.5×11 print of this image to the first person who requests one via a comment. (I’ll cover postage). I figure it will be nice to know there’s a copy of it out there somewhere besides my own wall.