Atelier Bonryu(E)

zone plate photography

Gallery: Zone Plate Photographs

Kurefushi no Sato Park of

Ancient Burial Mounds

The northwest part of Mito city is rather densely crowded with ancient burial mounds.  Especially, the Ushibushi cluster of ancient burial mounds consists of 16 mounds (6 large key-hole shaped burial mounds, 1 scallop-type key-hole shaped mound, and 9 round barrows) within a small area as 300 m x 200 m, which is now maintained as Kurefushi-no-Sato Park of ancient burial mounds.  The highlight of this park is a 17.3 m tall giant-Haniwa(clay-image)-shaped tower, “Hanimaru” which was modeled after a certain haniwa  excavated in this area.  A photograph below of the left side of the face of Hanimaru was taken at a distance of about 50 m by using a zone plate with a focal length of 200 mm and the back ground light was removed by the previously described method.  By this procedure an unblurred picture with well-expressed feel of material was obtained.

         　　  Camera: Olympus E-300, ZP#1: f=200 mm, 29 zones, ZP#2: f=90 mm, 19 zones