Sake
						Although these here were captured in front of the Kasuga Shrine in Nara, they can be seen around nearly every shrine in Japan: Piles of barrels containing sake. I really like the wrappings around the barrels including the fancy printings! I wonder what they say...
  For post processing I applied some tone mapping for increasing overall contrast and highlighting details such as the printings. I also removed most of the saturation and turned colors somewhat "colder". 
						 
						Image added on Mon, August 24th 2009, 5:02PM
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					Canon EOS 30D | 
				 
				
					| Lens: | 
					Canon EF 17-40 F/4 L USM | 
				 
				
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					- | 
				 
				
					| Focal Length: | 
					35mm (x1.6 = 56mm) | 
				 
				
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					1/50s | 
				 
				
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					f/8.0 | 
				 
				
					| ISO Speed: | 
					ISO125 | 
				 
				
					| Date & Time: | 
					Tue, May 9th 2006, 1:24PM | 
				 
			 
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