Gioji Temple Photo Shoot: Nicolas’s White Little Mushrooms
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What am I? I was thinking to use this as one of my “What am I?” quizzes  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
What am I?
I was thinking to use this as one of my “What am I?” quizzes

Picking up from where “Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple” left off, after the initial moss shots, I turned to the thatched roof of a small gate.

Small Gate  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2200 — map & image datanearby photos
Small Gate

The first photo is looking up the slant to the reeds making the top layer of the roof.

Here's looking at the evenly-sliced bottom face, which perhaps would be considered the eaves if there were walls...

Protected Underbelly of the Roof  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/100 sec, f/1.4, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Protected Underbelly of the Roof
Roof  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Roof

Nearby a set of ferns seems to be springing from the base of a tree and have a real “presence” (I'm not sure what that even means for a plant), but whatever “it” these ferns had was lost in the photo, but FWIW, here it is:

desktop background image of ferns and moss at the Gioji Temple (祇王寺), Kyoto Japan  --  Ferns and Moss  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 1800 — map & image datanearby photos
Ferns and Moss
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Me Taking “Ferns and Moss” photo by Nicolas Joannin  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Nicolas Joannin, http://regex.info/blog/
Olympus E-P2 + Leica DG Summilux 25/F1.4 at an effective 50mm — 1/50 sec, f/2, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Me Taking “Ferns and Moss”
photo by Nicolas Joannin

Nicolas then found some mushrooms the size of the head of a pin...

The Mushrooms are There the little white dots next to the moss  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 4000 — map & image datanearby photos
The Mushrooms are There
the little white dots next to the moss
Better View Voigtländer 125mm mounted on his Olympus E-P2  --  Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2800 — map & image datanearby photos
Better View
Voigtländer 125mm mounted on his Olympus E-P2

The white dots in the lower left are the mushrooms in question. He's using my Voigtländer 125mm with an adapter on his Olympus E-P2. Here's one of the shots he got:

photo by Nicolas Joannin  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Nicolas Joannin, https://plus.google.com/u/0/116578079434506112628
Olympus E-P2 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/30 sec, ISO 400 — image data
photo by Nicolas Joannin

I like the pictures of Nicolas wielding the big lens to shoot the little mushrooms, so a few more of that...

Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2800 — map & image datanearby photos
Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 3600 — map & image datanearby photos
Gioji Temple (祇王寺)  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/60 sec, f/4.5, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
photo by Nicolas Joannin  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Nicolas Joannin, https://plus.google.com/u/0/116578079434506112628
Olympus E-P2 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/30 sec, ISO 400 — image data
photo by Nicolas Joannin

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