Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 66 mm — 1/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — full exif & map — nearby photos Just a Bit of Snow random, but color, strangers Shirakawago Village, Toyama Prefecture, Japan In my most recent post about our short four-day New Year excursion a few hours' north of Kyoto by car, I ended with our [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 38 mm — 1/160 sec, f/4.5, ISO 900 — full exif & map — nearby photos $240 Audio Recorder suspended over a stream by a $9 tripod and a rock Mountains north of the Kitashirakawa area of Kyoto, Japan This cold I've had for the last week and a half seems to be [...]
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Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 30 mm — 1/40 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos Giouji Temple Kyoto Japan Desktop-Background Versions Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  2560×1600 Flipping around in my image library while doing some Lightroom testing, I came across an image that I happen to see fullscreen, and was wowed by it much more than a small-sized [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/125 sec, f/4, ISO 3600 — full exif & map — nearby photos Connections Through Time Me, with my son, his mom, her dad, and his mom (though not in that order!) When I started to take photography somewhat seriously (circa January 2006 when I got a Nikon D200), a long-time [...]
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Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f/2 — 1/80 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1100 — full exif & map — nearby photos Sphere Desktop-Background Versions Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  2560×1600 It's been a while since we've seen anything from Nishimura Stone Lantern stone-carving shop, so here's a close up of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazardly under the legs of a large stone lantern. (The combination is visible toward [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1/400 sec, f/11, ISO 1250 — full exif & map — nearby photos Deceivingly Nondescript Toyama Prefecture, Japan Desktop-Background Versions Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  2560×1600 This looks like a misty-white snow-covered mountain, but it's not. There's no mist; the fuzzy white areas that seem to be blurry turn out to show clear detail of every snow-covered [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 58 mm — 1/160 sec, f/6.3, ISO 220 — full exif & map — nearby photos The Oppressive Crowds of Times Square Gokayama Village, Toyama Prefecture, Japan So, it's been a week since “Introduction to a Snowy Gokayama Village”, and though I intended to pick up where I left off right away, I got [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 130 mm — 1/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — full exif & map — nearby photos My View This Morning Desktop-Background Versions Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  2560×1600 It's the view on my computer, at least, when I first sat down this morning. When I'm testing Lightroom things, I'm often jumping around randomly in my image archive, and apparently [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1/100 sec, f/13, ISO 2200 — full exif & map — nearby photos Scarred — the only color, if you look closely, is the wound from a recently snapped limb — In the mountains of Toyama Prefecture, Japan The day we arrived up north in Toyama Prefecture at the start of [...]
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Nikon D3 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 36 mm — 1/160 sec, f/4, ISO 3200 — full exif & map — nearby photos Water Basin Carved From Solid Moss Photo By Paul Barr I mentioned in “Stone Carvings: Curves, Crowns, an Ouchie, and More” how drawn I was to the curved shapes among the many items in the gardens behind [...]
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Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f/2 — 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1800 — full exif & map — nearby photos Smooth Curves Like a big sheet of plastic melting in the sun, sagging under its own weight Among the seemingly infinite variety of objects in the gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns stone-carving workshop in the mountains of north-east Kyoto, Japan, [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 20 mm — 1/200 sec, f/5, ISO 200 — full exif & map — nearby photos Canopy of Color Himukai Shrine, Kyoto Japan In my previous post, “Changing Lenses”, I showed a picture of a friend in front of a serious splash of fall colors. The leaves were so low in the view because [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/800 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — full exif & map — nearby photos Changing Lenses Zak Braverman at the Himukai Shrine Kyoto, Japan Fall, 2009 From our visit last month that yielded the “Gate of Disrepair” post. Continued here...
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Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f/2 — 1/200 sec, f/16, ISO 1400 — full exif Going Up Desktop-Background Versions Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  2560×1600 So, the other day, I posted the above photo without a title, soliciting captions. Almost two dozen suggestions later (all of which were kept hidden until after I posted this followup, so as not to influence subsequent suggestions) and the overwhelming theme [...]
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D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm (cropped a bit) — 1/160 sec, f/7.1, ISO 6400 — full exif & map — nearby photos Three Leaves Behind Nishimura Stone Lanterns, Kyoto Japan As I mentioned yesterday, the visit to the workshop and gardens of Nishimura Stone Lanterns (a fifth-generation hand stone-carving business) and their back garden was an amazing, overwhelming, mentally [...]
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#post1386 { background-color: black } Water Basin Copyright 2009 Paul Barr Nikon D3 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 42 mm — 1/160 sec, f/4, ISO 2800 — full exif & map — nearby photos As I mentioned yesterday, Paul Barr and I made a return visit to the Nishimura Stone Lantern workshop today. It was more amazing than I could have [...]
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NOTE: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size. Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f/2 — 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 280 — full exif & map — nearby photos Imposing Paul Barr photographs the garden / sales floor [...]
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Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f/2 — 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 360 — full exif & map — nearby photos “Dreamy Creamy” The initial destination of my photo outing with Paul Barr yesterday (the one where we discovered the workshop of Nishimura Stone Lanterns) was to visit the Nitenji Temple, nestled up in the mountains of north-east Kyoto, perched precariously over [...]
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Anthony visited his friend Monet today. She lives up in Hieidaira, a community in the mountains between here (Kyoto) and Otsu. The drive up the twisty crowded mountain road was breathtaking, and while they played I returned for a few photos. I stopped at a few places along the short (5-mile) route, but there were way too many colors to [...]
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