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 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Path To the Imakumano Kannonji Temple
(今熊野観音寺)
Kyoto Japan, Spring 2011

Desktop-Background Versions
Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  1920×1200  ·  2560×1600

If the pic above looks familiar, it's because I had a portrait version of it on “An Amazing Day of Photography at Some Eastern-Kyoto Temples” back in April. I was rummaging around in my Lightroom catalog today and got depressed at how many posts are waiting for me to get around to them — I have so much I want to share — so I thought I'd start with a few more from the morning of the photogenic stroll that produced that post.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 280 — map & image data — nearby photos
Morning Constitutional

Vertical Desktop-Background Versions
1050×1680  ·  1200×1920  ·  1600×2560

Having recently posted “Trying Some Hard-Edged Black and White”, I thought I see what I could do with an otherwise boring shot from a display at the Imakumano Kannonji Temple. I dunno... perhaps wasn't worth the time...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Happy Little Man

It was still cherry-blossom season...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

... but far enough along that the petals had started falling...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Cherry-Blossom Petals

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 cropped — ¹/640 sec, f/8, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Cherry-Blossom Petal

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Horn-Shaped Flower/Blossom of Some Sort

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos
Perfect

Desktop-Background Versions
Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  1920×1200  ·  2560×1600

I was highly taken with the perfection of these otome tsubaki (乙女椿). I posed one head-on shot here, but have always intended a few more, so here we are.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
In Situ

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos

There are a lot of temples and a few small shrines in the area. Wandering around, I came upon this quiet scene...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Entrance to the Zenryuuji Temple and Inari Daimyou Shrine
(善龍寺、稲荷大明神社)

These are apparently sufficiently small to avoid all mention in Wikipedia, yet according to the notations on various mapping services, the shrine part is the oldest Inari shrine in Japan (the most famous of which is the dazzling Fushimi Inari Shrine a kilometer away.

The gate in the photo above has two big wooden doors that are propped open at the moment. I took a shot of one with the intent of using it as a desktop background, but I'm not quite sure the result is powerful enough... it feels more like a snapshot than anything else.

But it's here, so I may as well put it up to let you decide...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/125 sec, f/8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos

Vertical Desktop-Background Versions
1050×1680  ·  1200×1920  ·  1600×2560

Just inside the gate, the view was much nicer...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos

Desktop-Background Versions
Standard: 1024×768  ·  1440×1080  ·  1600×1200      Widescreen:  1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  1920×1200  ·  2560×1600

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/400 sec, f/8, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Shrine Gate, Temple Building

It was still early in what turned out to be a long and productive day, so many more posts to come.

Continued here...