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Wow, time flies... now that there's a Lightroom 4 beta out, I'm really ramping up the work to upgrade my Lightroom plugins appropriately, and have barely had time to come up for air, and so I was a bit surprised when I noticed today that it's been five days since my previous post. So, here's [...]
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In yesterday's "Colorful Ladies' Wardrobe" post we looked at some of the young ladies preparing for their turn at traditional Japanese archery at the rite-of-passage event described in "Total Discipline: Anatomy of a Japanese Archer's Shot". Before and after their turn they were as lively as you'd expect a bunch of twenty-year-old girls to be, [...]
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After what's turned out to be a monochromatic year so far, I'm happy to get some color back in my blog. The fall-foliage season is Kyoto's most glorious, and it runs a long six or seven weeks, so I've got more fodder for posts than I could actually process, so I'll dip in for today's [...]
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This year has gotten off slowly for me, having woken up January 1st with a cold and all, but with "Inspired Artistic Temple Shot" and its followup, "Simple Temple Sliding Wall", I seem to have a black-and-white theme going, so I'll continue that today with a post about charcoal, from last year's visit to Japanese [...]
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I've been taking it easy this year because I'm still recovering from the cold I woke up with on 1/1, but after posting Paul Barr's inspired creation yesterday, I thought I'd look into my own photo archive to see what I was doing when he took that photo. I was standing next to Paul, but [...]
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Earlier this month, on the wonderful day in Kyoto's Takao area that I mentioned in the rainbow post a few weeks ago, we visited two temples. I posted a few scenes from the first in "On The Path To Northwest Kyoto's Shingoji Temple", and while I have a bazillion more from there that I want [...]
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A month ago in "Another Day of Amazing Fall Colors in Kyoto" I posted on photo similar to the one above, from that day's trip to the Imakumano Kannonji Temple (今熊野観音寺) in eastern Kyoto. The tree with the red leaves had particularly impressive colors, but only when viewed from about where the group is standing. [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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As I mentioned the other day in "Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom", I stumbled across an artsy photo treatment in Lightroom that gives an interesting life to most any photo it's applied to. The more I played with it, the more I felt its gimmicky intensity is like the Auto Tune for [...]
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After "discovering" yesterday that I'd not even looked at thousands of photos from last year's fall-foliage season, I thought I'd go through a bit more today to pick some from the first batch, an outing to the Eikando Temple (永観堂) in eastern Kyoto. Unlike yesterday's highly "artsy" shots, these are pretty straightforward. I posted an [...]
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I can't believe it's been a week since I last posted... time has just evaporated as I've been working on a new Lightroom project. Taking a break from that, and realizing that Kyoto is just a few weeks from the start of its most glorious fall-foliage season, I thought I'd dip into my archives from [...]
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Here are a few final photos from the Ikebana show that I talked about the other day. As I wrote then, the works are just lined up on folding tables right in front of unappealing backdrops, so it's not a great situation for photography.... ... under mixed lighting... ... in a crowd... Nevertheless, here are [...]
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Looking over photos from the Ikebana show I mentioned yesterday, I came across this shot with not a single thing in focus, but somehow I really like its mood. The closest edge is the least out of focus, but everything being out of focus makes the whole thing seem dreamy. I tend to be partial [...]
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