Mushroom & Statue - Mt. Maruyama

Yesterday went to the reserved forest of Mt. Maruyama, Sapporo. The main purpose is to photography one of my favorite photography subject - mushroom. 

The first time I photography mushroom after owning a macro lens was during my trip at Oirase.
To shoot mushroom, tripod is a must because it usually grow in shaded places which required very low shutter speed - mostly shot at 0.8 second in this series, thus handheld is impossible.
Also, I usually overexposed it by +1 or +1.5 so that the mushroom looks growing.
To make it interesting, approach from law angle so that you are showing its under side of the cap, which should looks growing glowing with back-lighting and a little of overexposed. How I wish my camera has a swivel LCD to make the task easier.
I didn't shoot any top-down picture because it looks dull to me.

Since there weren't much mushroom to shoot, I then started to find these (below) statues to be interesting. 

When you started to pay attention, you'll notice that they have very different kinds of expression.
This one looks jolly to me.

This one looks calm and a little serious.

This looks calm and joyful.

 So as this one.

Calm and humble.

A typical cunning, evil, foxy smiling.

This too, calm and joyful.

Calm and innocent.

Calm and joyful.

There are scattering along the way up to the hilltop of Mt. Maruyama. 

Perhaps counting them will make the way up less tiring when you have something to keep you from thinking about how tire you are. But what if you become tire of counting? Because there are literary more than hundred of them!  

 

My bicycle, parked near the entrance to the walkway up the hill.