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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/16, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Burn Continues
Heian Shrin, Kyoto Japan
Taking a break from the craziness that ensued for me yesterday when Lightroom 4 was released, I thought I'd pick up from last month's “Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins”.
Once the blaze was going in earnest, they started throwing bundles of wooden slats into the fire, each slat with someone's wish for good health or the like written on it...
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/2000 sec, f/2, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Halfway Done
with one of the pallets
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Another 50
added to the burn
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rinse and Repeat
( meaning “do again”, a reference to common instructions on shampoo bottles )
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Fire Poker
The heat for the fire-poker guy must have been almost unbearable. It was very very hot, even for me upwind 20 meters (two highway-bus lengths) away. But he could never retreat.
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Purple and Pink
observe from a distance
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Still a Bit Angry
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Still Chanting
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/2500 sec, f/2, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Still Cooking
in the warmth of the still-setting sun
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Drum Accompaniment
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Short Attention Spans
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/1600 sec, f/2, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Winding Down
but still ferocious at the base
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/5000 sec, f/2, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Painting With Convection Currents
As I wrote about in “Intense Burn: A Few More Looks at the Bubbling Cauldron of Boiling Air”, the intense heat of the flames made for amazing patterns in the air, enhanced by the ultra thin-depth of field of the lens.
Here's a crop of the upper-right corner of the shot above... it looks like a painting:
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/5000 sec, f/2, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
That's Some Intense Heat
It makes me think that perhaps I don't need Coral Painter Essentials to create prints like this to hang on my office wall... I just need an intense bonfire.
And for something completely different, on the way home I saw a pair of fuzzy black boots appear seemingly minutes before the wearer came into view. Once the wearer caught up to them, I snapped a photo so I could share the latest Kyoto fashions with the world...
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 — 1/2500 sec, f/2, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Strike Up The “Charlie's Angels” Theme