On The Way To Lunch: Eastern-Kyoto Stroll
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I took my camera when I walked to lunch through a small area of eastern Kyoto yesterday. These are some of the shots I took along the way.

Kyoto Field Trip I'm guessing these are high-school kids on a field trip to Kyoto. small groups are roving all over  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Kyoto Field Trip
I'm guessing these are high-school kids on a field trip to Kyoto.
small groups are roving all over
Lunch Break at a construction site  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 250 — map & image datanearby photos
Lunch Break
at a construction site
Uprite and Stowed Position complex business end of a retractable crane  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1600 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Uprite and Stowed Position
complex business end of a retractable crane
Not Quite I was thinking to make this a desktop background, but the more I look at it, the more I feel something is off balance  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 280 — map & image datanearby photos
Not Quite
I was thinking to make this a desktop background, but the more I look at it,
the more I feel something is off balance
On Patrol meter maids on the prowl  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — map & image datanearby photos
On Patrol
meter maids on the prowl
Ultra Fluffy  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — map & image datanearby photos
Ultra Fluffy
Rest Break  --  Cherry Tree Inside Maruyama Park  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Rest Break
Duckie!  --  Cherry Tree Inside Maruyama Park  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Duckie!
Some Temple or Other  --  Maruyama Park  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image datanearby photos
Some Temple or Other
“Nene-no-Michi” Quaint “Ne-ne Street”  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 500 — map & image datanearby photos
“Nene-no-Michi”
Quaint “Ne-ne Street”
Dress Up Ladies dress as geisha and hit the town  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 560 — map & image datanearby photos
Dress Up
Ladies dress as geisha and hit the town
desktop background image of oddly-green cherry blossoms (御衣黄桜) in Kyoto, Japan  --  Green-Tinged Cherry Blossoms Pink splash over a greenish-white base These are 御衣黄桜 ( gyoikou sakura )  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image datanearby photos
Green-Tinged Cherry Blossoms
Pink splash over a greenish-white base
These are 御衣黄桜 (gyoikou sakura)
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Fellow Photographer She took photos of the blossoms while I admired her simple and elegant kimono  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Fellow Photographer
She took photos of the blossoms while I admired her simple and elegant kimono
Touristy but quite pleasant when not crowded  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 220 — map & image datanearby photos
Touristy
but quite pleasant when not crowded
desktop background image of a ricksha driver giving directions to two ladies in kimono, in Kyoto Japan  --  Neighborly Assistance  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Neighborly Assistance
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Photo Op while she hides an SLR behind her  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 400 — map & image datanearby photos
Photo Op
while she hides an SLR behind her
Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image datanearby photos

Both lunch and the walk back will be their own posts...

Continued here...


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I liked the photos and it was good to see the students are still wearing uniforms or dressing alike as in the top photo.

— comment by Abraham Lincoln on April 27th, 2012 at 2:57am JST (11 years, 11 months ago) comment permalink
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