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3 replies on “A Walk Around Shirakawa-go 白川郷”
OMG! That looks soooo different from back when I was there; mostly because it was August and it was HOT as hell.
But it is so wonderful, too bad you can’t hear those cicadas in Hinamizawa, a trademark for sure.
I went in early January 2011 and it looked pretty much the same as in your video.
It got a little bit cloudy later in the day, though.
Awesome images Héctor…
Wonder how they were captured, gear wise.
Seems to be a Merlin style (ginbal) stabiliser… not shure about the camera though.
http://www.diycamera.com/stabiliser/index.html