One of the most famous spot people visiting during this less comfort yet precious time is Aso beach, located at Ishikari... about an hour by bus from Sapporo.
It is precious because this is the time when people can wear less and short at this cold region of Japan; Thus the only opportunity for bikini girls sighting...
And here I come to make some shots for sharing with some Malaysian friends
This (photo below) is a panel showing the bus rate that you needed to pay when getting off...
A junior high school girl (photo below)...
Well, in Japan, if you can't tell the age of a girl by their look, you can still tell by the length of their clothes; As they move into a higher grade, so as the height of their school uniform risen...
So in Japan, you should expect to see the 18-year-old-about-to-graduate high school girls are all in super short mini skirt uniform [制服誘惑] :)
Alright lets not divert (too much) from the topic of today's post... after arrival at Ishikari, along the way to Aso beach is this house; I like the simple red, green, blue, and white combination of this shot...
Then this very special looking clock...
Notice that the numberings are in kanji [漢字]...
About 5 min walk from where I got off the bus is the entrance into the Aso beach area...Here car park is quite expensive - 800 yen per car.
Due to very strong wind, the beach was not so crowded...
Here at the beach people came for camping...
Walk on the sand...
BBQ and taking picture...
Playing...
Walking and chating...
There were also some gulls...
Then here it come the main topic - bikini beauties (泳装美女) ...
In Japan, girls love makeup and decorate themselves, even after they are marriage, so be expecting to see many beautiful housewives [人妻]...
After finished doing favorite for friends, here we go my real photography stuffs...
Hmm... art is a very subjective matter ya...Perhaps you don't like the legs-showing-photo not because it is that bad... but because you are comparing it to the bikini girls, just like a baby who rejects plain water after tasted the syrup??!
Ok ok, the leg is just for fun, here comes my real photography stuffs...
I love the simple blue-white-green combination - they are colours for summer! (beside the sunflower-yellow of cause)
Here again, a photography tip on using polerizing (PL) filter:Below are two pictures directly out of my camera without going through any post-processing. On the left was a shot without using PL filter, see how the PL filter (right photo) brings up the real colour of the white clouds, grass and blue sky, making the whole frame very saturate and contrast in colour. Whilst, the above photo was post-processed based on the raw file of the right photo, notice how the colour is further saturated and increased in contrast.
I never learn how to appreciate crow until I come across the one below... they make good photography subject when standing still and not stealing foods or make any mess out of our garbage...
The time we left the beach was already late evening, the Sun was low creating very appealing lighting for landscape photography. Here I passed across a sumurai grass field...
I don't know exactly why I call it samurai grass, maybe from the movie "The last samurai" that I saw this type of grass or from some book...Anyway, here with the blue mountain as a background and me stading in samurai grass field with hair tie up samurai style - you got to admit that this is a very cool shot don't you!!
Then we went to onsen (温泉), a see-facing hot spring... Entrance is 600 yen per head.
A rock garden in the onsen...
After onsen, I enjoyed a glass of local make beer...
At Hokkaido, all tourist spots have their street lamp pole come with a theme... because Ishikari is famous for it's beach (or for the bikini girls??) so the theme is seabird.
Here the red roof house after sun set...
The last schedule for returning to Sapporo by bus is 8 pm, we took the 7 pm one, here I am enjoying soft cream while waiting for the bus; Though my expression didn't seem so I know, but I do...
