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A Few Fall-Foliage Desktops To Get In The Autumnal Mood

by Jeffrey Friedl Wed, September 12th, 2012 10:16am JST (11 years, 7 months ago)

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Lots Going On hard to know where to focus -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lots Going On
hard to know where to focus

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The fall colors are probably already starting to appear in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but we won't begin to see them in Kyoto for another six weeks, so I'm dipping into the archives for a preview.

These shots are from a trip to south-western Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) last November. As the proximity-search feature of my blog shows, I've posted plenty from this area in the past, including three posts with photos from this particular trip:

Entering Kyoto’s Yoshiminedera Temple
More Fall Foliage From the Yoshiminedera Temple
A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November

So, there's nothing new here, but I like pretty pictures, so here we go...

desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- View from the parking lot -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
View
from the parking lot

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Paul Barr being Paul Barr -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Paul Barr
being Paul Barr

Camo Tree -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 4500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Camo Tree

desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- So Uniform It Hurts -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
So Uniform It Hurts

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Ying and Yang -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ying and Yang

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Things Are Looking Up -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Things Are Looking Up

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Abstract -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Abstract

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Lost -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/800 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lost

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desktop background image of fall colors at the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺), Kyoto Japan -- Lightpost -- Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/1600 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lightpost

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November	25th,	2011	Entering Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple
November	28th,	2011	More Fall Foliage From the Yoshiminedera Temple
March	1st,	2012	A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November
November	2nd,	2012	Kyoto Fall Foliage 2012 Preview: A Few From Last Year
November	25th,	2013	A Temple with Extra Restrictions on Photography is Now My Favorite Kyoto Temple

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All 3 comments so far, oldest first...

I enjoyed your tree bark photo (JF7_102116.jpg). Trees and rocks are two of my favorite subjects to photograph.

— comment by Tom on September 12th, 2012 at 11:07am JST (11 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink

Beautiful pics, as always — I lurk mostly (and use some of your wallpapers in my PC’s rotation). Have you seen the new, lightweight Nikon D600? I’m curious to see how it compares to older D700.

— comment by Anna M on September 14th, 2012 at 3:10am JST (11 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink

Yin and Yang is so special. (BTW, “Ying” without “g”.)

— comment by Anne on October 2nd, 2012 at 9:26pm JST (11 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink