Comments on: Bones of a Gunma Ski Lift

By: Boom Lift

Boom Lift — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:27:41 +0000

Very cool shots of a piece of history. I rode on one of these when I visiting a friend in TN. Such a cool ride.

By: sylvain

sylvain — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:59:49 +0000

Absolutely stunning shots… Love the black and white ones!

By: MJG

MJG — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:26:20 +0000

Durf- Ha, I knew there had to be a technical term for them, thanks. Am glad you mentioned the mid-season thing, it does seem a bit strange to leave seats just hanging there like that. I guess it was an abrupt closure. As for some details, I’ll send you an email.

Jason- Blahness I dunno, have since amended the post to remove it as it was annoying me too. HDR shots, well, not every photo in the post is HDR. Predominantly HDR though as I make an HDR of every shot, then compare it back to the original. The HDR generally wins out.

Tornadoes- Good points, all. The ski lift was great, though offered very little explore. The Ski resort offered things to explore, but nothing much to shoot.

Loco- Cheers, thanks for stopping by

Can- I dunno, that phrase just popped into my head and I decided to use it. Now though I see how it pitches the whole post into a kind of complaining tone- which I don’t much like- so I’ve since changed it. I had fun too. It’s true that I was a bit disappointed the mine was not more awesome, but no point going on about it. Better to take it all for what it was.

Lee- Agreed, the chairlift was def the best thing for shooting, and yeah it was fun. Thanks for props, is fun to trial things in black and white. In this case black and white probably saved it, as in color the hues and saturations are all weird.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:13:11 +0000

Yeah, not a great haikyo, but it was fun nevertheless, albeit in a different way than most places. The chairlift was a big help too, and the top picture of it is especially good.

By: Can. Mike

Can. Mike — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:31:19 +0000

“…glace cherry on a sumptuous cake of haikyo fail…”

uuuhh, what brought on this bit of prose?

Seems a bit negative Mike, I actually had fun here. I’ll admit the inside of the lodge itself was a bit dull, but the hike up the mountain to the mine, plus the great view, fresh air and decent shots of the chairlift more than made it worthwhile to me.

By: Locohama

Locohama — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:43:39 +0000

Great pics as usual!!! and, some funny captions too

By: Tornadoes28

Tornadoes28 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:36:11 +0000

Actually I think this old ski resort is one of the cooler haikyo and really is a classic haikyo. A calssic example of a recreation resort that may have been popular for a short while in Japan’s boom years but now abandoned as the economy and the population shrink. This is a great haikyo.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:14:21 +0000

Don’t know why you’d be so blah about this haikyo, it looks like one of the more original ones there are! Seems pretty cool to me, especially since you can climb up the pylons.

If the sun was that strong why not, not fight it and go for more silhouette photos like the lead shot, which is an interesting one. Why HDR for every shot still?

No video of you skiing?

I’d still like to see at least one shot of the scattered boots and skis inside.

By: Durf

Durf — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:54:34 +0000

“Ski sticks” are generally called “poles” by people who use the things.

That lift looks like it was abandoned mid-season, unless it was one that also operated during the summer months to get hikers to a higher trail. At most ski areas they’ll remove the chairs and store them indoors, so all you’ll see on the mountain is the towers and cable.

What’s the location of this ski area? I’d like to poke around and find out what it is, when it closed, all that good stuff.