A TRANQUIL SCENE ON LAKE ASHI, SEEN FROM THE SHORES OF HAKONE VILLAGE as MT. FUJI RISES BEYOND THE DISTANT HEADLANDS

For a couple of years, the above photo was the desktop image on Okinawa Soba's computer monitor.

It is also a "post with a purpose"....and a beautiful albumen photo from over 110 years ago.

From the lens on the camera to the lip of Fuji's crater is 32 Kilometers --- 20 miles.

I recently posted a stereoview that seemed to have a bar of light running across the image. Although I suspected might be distant turbulence on the water, it seemed too "horizontally perfect" to be such.

www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3558209119/

However, the ca.1880s-90s old albumen print posted above shows the same bar of light in the exact same place as the stereoview just referred to that was taken some 10 to 20 years later. Of course, this is a closer view, and things widen out and take on curves as the "white bar of light" cuts through the reflection of the trees on the water.

It is obvious by this photo that the "white bar" is indeed wind turbulence, and that the shape of the land around Hakone and the lake is conducive to producing the visual phenomena in this spot, while leaving the foreground...er, forewater like a mirror. However, I am hard pressed to find the same effect in photos taken today (link at the bottom).

Finally, I was able to catch it while traveling in upper New York State in the USA :

www.flickr.com/search/?w=24443965@N08&q=Lake+Harris&a...

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Lake Ashi is called Ashi no Ko in Japanese. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ashi

See endless photos of this lake today, and notice some of the boats (and a "Pirate Ship"!) that now ply the waters from their modern-day piers in "Old Hakone" :

images.google.com/images?q=Lake+Ashi

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Taken on: May 28, 2009

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