Archive for the 'Fall Colors' CategoryFoliage, mostly from around Kyoto
This post is just a bunch of extra desktop-background images from the Enkouji Temple (円光寺) in Kyoto last fall, that I didn't have space to fit in "The Gorgeous Enkouji Temple of North-East Kyoto" the other day. Next are a few "reflections of the trees in the pond" shots similar to "Pond" the other day. [...]
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In today's post we dip again into the deep archives of my very-photogenic November of last year, where on the 15th of the month Paul Barr and I visited two temples in northeast Kyoto, the Shisendo Temple (producing this post and this post), and then the nearby Enkouji Temple (圓光寺). It was my first visit [...]
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Going back to round out my posts about my first visit to the Hosen-in Temple (宝泉院) in Kyoto's mountain suburb of Ohara last fall, today's post picks up after parts two and three. The path from the main road is flanked by stalls selling all manner of snacks. These senbei were pretty and, according to [...]
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Last autumn I finally made my first visit to the sprawling mountainside Shugakuin Imperial Villa in north-east Kyoto. It's one of three imperial (connected with the Emperor of Japan) sites in Kyoto that you can visit via reservation, but reservations can be difficult to come by. For example, other than a few time slots next [...]
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Picking up from part 1 and part 2 about my trip to the Housen-in Temple (宝泉院) in the Ohara mountain district of Kyoto last fall, we moved from the temple and its maple/moss garden, to a separate rock garden... The weather alternated between light rain and brilliant sun... the gloominess seen above was suddenly replaced [...]
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Picking up from "First Visit to Kyoto’s Housen-in Temple" the other day, where I ended with having tea and sweets in the garden-viewing room, here are some more shots of that room and the area. The back of the room had some nice paintings in the alcoves... In the shot above, Paul is facing the [...]
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Dipping back into my largely-untapped archive from November's many fall-foliage outings, here are some photos from a trip to the Kyoto mountain-suburb of Ohara, where we (Damien Douxchamps, Paul Barr, and I) visited some of the smaller temples surrounding the justly-famous Sanzen-in temple (三千院), which has been on my blog many times since my first [...]
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Since my main computer (a laptop holding my photos for the last two years) is still in the shop, I'm taking random walks through the 90,000 photos in my desktop-computer's Lightroom catalog, dating through the end of 2010. I'm taking the opportunity to delete a lot of cruft, but occasionally run across shots I want [...]
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My laptop, where I do all my photo work for the last couple of years, is in the shop, so I'm having to dip back into the old Lightroom catalog on my old desktop machine, where I have photos from the 90s through the end of 2010. I hadn't looked at them in ages, and [...]
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This is an (almost) impossible shot to get... the garden and the garden-viewing room at the Enkouji Temple (圓光寺, Kyoto Japan), at the height of fall colors, both completely devoid of people. This next photo of the same place six years ago (from this blog post) is what this kind of place normally looks like: [...]
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Last November I posted a wigglegram on "Elegance in Kyoto’s Tenjyuan Garden". (If you don't know what wigglegram is, check out the post and be sure to move your mouse over the picture). Even though I shot more than 70 gigabytes worth of photos that day, I still haven't shared anything else from that garden [...]
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Revisiting last fall's ikebana (flower arranging) event at the Shoren'in Temple, previously seen in these posts: Photography is not normally allowed in this temple, but it was for this event. I ended up chatting with the American guy taking the photo above. It turns out that he had just met the lady in the kimono [...]
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This is a followup to "An f/1.2 + f/5.6 Pair" from two months ago, from an outing introduced the prior day in "A Few Pretty Pictures from Kyoto’s Middle-of-Nowhere Sourenji Temple". I'd left off with the promise to show a few more f/1.2 shots, so here we finally are. Nothing here is really that compelling, [...]
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I've posted only the tiniest fraction of recent photos that I want to post, and today I'm making a slight dent in the backlog by revisiting the photogenic day last December that yielded "Intense Rainbow Over Arashiyama" and its longer followup, and also "Pretty and Colorful Public Path in Arashiyama", a post that highlighted the [...]
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Had a cold for a few days, recovered, and today spent 10 hours on a 1,000-photo outing to Nara and now feel almost as exhausted as I did when I had the cold. Time for some sleep.
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I'm pretty tired today, so just a few simple shots from a trip to Kyoto's Shisendo Temple (詩仙堂) a month ago. These are from the same outing that produced "Portrait Practice Among the Fall Colors". I can't decide whether I like the shot above or the shot below better, so I'll just put them both. [...]
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Here's a desktop-background version with framing I like better: That was the last photo I took on Saturday. Sort of in keeping with the timeline nature of my recent "was a busy November!" post, I'll show my first photo from the day, taken from a bridge after a hurried stop and fighting to cross traffic [...]
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Here are a few more shots of that intense rainbow in Kyoto the other day. Following Damien Douxchamps' lead, I moved to the other side of the street to get the rainbow crossing over Arashiyama's famous Togetsukyo bridge (渡月橋). The angle from that side of the bridge also omits the storm clouds seen in the [...]
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November was a busy month for photo outings for me here in Kyoto. I took 8,954 photos during the month, though perhaps 1,500 of those were in the pursuit of wigglegrams. Still, that leaves about 7,500 to wade through, a task I will probably never complete. Here's one photo from each place I went with [...]
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It was, at times, a cold miserable day in Kyoto today, but there's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time. The rain the rainbows were created in was being swept in low from the mountains to the left. (Fittingly, this area of Kyoto's name, Arashiyama, means "Tempest Mountain".) [...]
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