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Photo You Can Make Only A Couple Of Minutes Each Year

Photo You Can Make Only A Couple Of Minutes Each Year

There is a great fervor in Japan about Fuji. It is their national icon that they cherish and sometimes even idolize. So it came with a no great surprise to me w...
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There is a great fervor in Japan about Fuji. It is their national icon that they cherish and sometimes even idolize. So it came with a no great surprise to me while researching photo opportunities in Japan, that themes including Fuji are one of the most cherished. And at the top of all that? So-called "Double Diamond Fuji".

Diamond Fuji is the moment in time when the sun rises right above the crater of Fuji and shines above it as a diamond. If you manage to capture it in a reflection at the same time, you got yourself a double diamond Fuji and something that is widely considered as only possible to make only on 2 days out of the year.

Which is not totally true. Yes, sun position in the sky changes throughout the year. So-called analemma. But, what really counts is parallax effect on Fuji between the Sun and observer. And you can calculate-test which position would you have to be to put Fuji in the path of rising sun.
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