The photo below was made in the early morning at Gassan Shizu Hot Springs at  Nishikawa in the Yamagata Prefecture.   We had just spent the last week or so on a Basho walking tour in  the Tohoku region in  Honshu, Japan.  The tour had  started in Sendai and Gassan Shizu was  the last morning of the  fascinating l Basho walk 

 Mt. Gassan, one of the three  sacred mountains of Dewa Sanzan is in the background. The other two sacred mountains are Mt Yudono and Mt Haguro, which had visited  prior to our overnight  stay at Gassan Shizu.

Shortly after I'd made the  above photo the tour  was taken by the hotel  bus to Yamagata Station where we went our separate ways.   We  travelled by  Shinkansen to Tokyo then on to Osaka  to begin walking  the Kumano Kodo pilgrim trail, self-guided. 

I didn't make many b+w photos whilst on the Basho walk; in  contrast to the street photos that I'd done  during  the  5 days in Tokyo and 4 days in Morioka prior to starting  the tour.   I found it difficult to make the transition from street photography to nature and the light in the forest trails was either too contrasty or too low for film. 

I mostly used a digital camera which was more versatile and  more suitable for the autumn colours.