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I posted yesterday about Kyoto's Kamo River overflowing its banks. It's pretty mild flooding by many standards, but I thought I'd post some more photos for those who might know the area and find them interesting.

D700 + Sigma “Bigma” OS @ 50 mm with lens hood ajar — ¹/800 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Looking North Toward Ooike
from Sanjo Oohashi

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 20 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sanjo Bridge

Nikon D200 + Nikon 50mm f/1.2 — ¹/250 sec, f/4, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
For Comparison
same bridge a couple of years ago, from the other side of the river
( the bicycles at the far right would have been under water )

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 170 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/6.3, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Gathering Spot

There are actually two rivers in the photo above, that rising waters have merged. For comparison, here's a shot from that side, but downriver a bit looking back up, showing the two rivers and why I caption it “Gathering Spot”...

Nikon D700 + Nikon 50mm f/1.2 — ¹/100 sec, f/1.2, ISO 11400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Kiyamachi Nightlife Spills Over
from the same outing as Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 and a 50mm f/1.2

In the “Gathering Spot” photo, there's a bit of blue almost directly in center frame. That's a “bib” (for lack of a better understanding on my part) on some kind of statue, seen in this next shot from a couple of years ago with a red bib:

Nikon D200 + Nikon 50mm f/1.2 — ¹/2000 sec, f/1.2, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Perspective

You can see in this shot the smaller, higher river, and way in the background the mostly-dry bed of the Kamo river. I show this photo because a few hours before I arrived to take photos yesterday, the water was apparently up to this statue, but had subsided by a half a meter or so by the time I got there.

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 240 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/22, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Turbulent, But Lacking Scale

The center of the swollen river in this area was an angry zone of intense liquid turbulence, with mountains of water heaving in a violent frenzy that was mostly limited only to this narrow zone. The “splashes” of water in the photo are the size of cars.

Moving to the north side of Sanjo again, here's a shot looking across to the Sanjo Starbucks....

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 140 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/8, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Riverside Cafe

For comparison, here's a night shot from when I first got the Bigma. The green/blue sign makes a good point of reference.

Nikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 170 mm — ¹/40 sec, f/5.6, ISO 12800 — map & image data — nearby photos