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Last week Anthony got together with a friend, Kenny, for some play by Kyoto's Kamogawa river... The water level is about the lowest it ever gets (compare to almost flood level), which allowed the boys to climb down and throw rocks... Of course, the first thing on the agenda was throwing rocks, which all kids [...]
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(The large version of this photo might be interesting... I'm not sure... but this small thumbnail certainly isn't.) I went out to Fushimi Castle the other day with Paul Barr and Nicolas, a French/American guy I met briefly at Gion Matsuri at the start of the summer when he noticed my big lens and introduced [...]
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I included a pretty bamboo-and-leaf photo on my previous post, even though it wasn't related to the post, just to have something pretty, but I tend to like to share stories/context instead of just photos, so this post fills in that gap for that photo. Just outside the Ryoanji Temple is a path/sidewalk that leads [...]
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I was sort of amused to read "Stop Advertising in Photo Magazines – Head West to the Web" on Trey Ratcliff's "Stuck in Customs" photo-travel blog, about how his $30,000 ad buy in some photography magazines was a bust. What caught my attention was not that print is dying, but that here's a guy with [...]
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It's been about six years since I've been to the Ryoanji Temple (龍安寺) in north-west Kyoto, but I think of it fondly because Fumie and I went there twice in the early years after moving here (once in the summer of 2005, and again in the fall), and because I've used this picture from there [...]
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As I mentioned on the helicopter-and-rainbow post earlier in the week, I made a visit to a couple of remote mountain temples in the Takao area of north-west Kyoto. The first, the Shingoji Temple (神護寺), is accessed by walking down a long and winding flight of steps into a ravine, across a small bridge, then [...]
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I took the camera with me on an errand a short walk from home the other day, and snapped a few photos. I was perhaps inspired because it was the day after this year's trip to the most-excellent Eikando Temple where Anthony had shown an eye for photography well beyond his years. Other than the [...]
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I spent a wonderful day yesterday being introduced to some amazing temples in the Takao area, in the mountains of north-west Kyoto. The partially-cloudy day was punctuated at times with small cells of very light mist/rain, and this made for really dynamic light. Almost back home to eastern Kyoto in the late afternoon, the combination [...]
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So, after yesterday's post of Anthony's surprisingly good photography at the Eikando Temple, here are some of my own.
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I got a call today that the nearby Eikando Temple was bathed in some gorgeous late-afternoon peeking-through-some-storm-clouds sun, so I thought I'd go and take a look. It's always absolutely amazing during the fall-foliage season, even in the rain, so I knew I couldn't lose, but it became all the better when Anthony said he [...]
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Stéphane Barbery invited me today to visit a temple and shrine near Mt. Yoshida, an area a 20-minute walk from my place that he introduced to me a few years ago. In the years since, I've gone by the steps seen above many times, but I'd never actually gone up them, but today I was [...]
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Today I revisited for the first time a few of the temples that I first visited last spring (as seen in "An Amazing Day of Photography at Some Eastern-Kyoto Temples" and "Revisiting April's Eastern-Kyoto Temple Stroll, among others), spending most of the time wandering the sprawling grounds of the Imakumano Kannonji Temple (今熊野観音寺). It was [...]
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Here are a few more from my Yoshiminedera Temple visit the other day with Paul Barr. As I noted on the earlier post, the colors are less impressive this year than last year, but it's still the nicest temple in Kyoto for fall colors, I think, ahead even of the Eikando Temple, which has the [...]
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My cold definitely seems to be over, so today I made the trek to the deep-mountain southwest corner of Kyoto City, to the Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) that Stéphane Barbery introduced me to last year. I made two trips last year, producing enough story and photographic material to fill dozens of blog posts, but being lazy [...]
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Having recovered from a mild but lingering cold, I went out for some lite temple/shrine exploration in western Kyoto with Paul Barr yesterday. The autumn colors are late and weak this year, but it's always fun to explore new nooks and crannies of Kyoto, so I enjoyed it. There's a tradition of sake (rice wine) [...]
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I mentioned in yesterday's post that the late-afternoon view was quite dynamic from eastern Kyoto's Shogunzuka Overlook, and I wasn't kidding. I'd never seen such a variety of conditions, much less over a mere hour and a half. The view above is from when we got there an hour or so before sunset, toward Osaka. [...]
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I happened to walk up to the Shogunzuka Overlook in eastern Kyoto this afternoon with Paul Barr, enjoying quite the dynamic late-afternoon sun. The sunset itself was nothing close to what I've been hoping for since the most amazing sunset I've ever seen, but it was still nicer than I've seen in a while, and [...]
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That's the original of the made-to-look-like-night photo I posted my Dark, Moonless "What am I?" Quiz the other day. Seeing it in its full brightness doesn't make its purpose much more apparent, though. I just could not figure it out, so I asked the staff at the hotel, who told me that it was a [...]
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For some reason that I can't fathom at the moment, I let Zak Braverman talk me into taking a walk through Kyoto, ostensibly for some vaguely-defined health benefits. We were to meet at Kyoto Station and then walk the couple of miles to Chez Luc for lunch, but I decided walk to the meeting point [...]
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I have no idea why I like this shot, but I did at first glance, and I still do, so here it is. It's one of the first shots I took on a visit to the most fabulous Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) in southern Kyoto last year, with Paul Barr. (As an aside, Paul is likely [...]
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