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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Crisp

Picking up from yesterday's “Beyond The Staircase Ruins” from an outing to the Kuuya-taki Waterfall (空也滝) in western Kyoto, this post has a few shots from the short trip back to the road.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
More Interesting Bark
though not as interesting as this tree from earlier in the trip

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 5600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Inexplicable

This picture reflects the style of many of the buildings in the area... rusty corrugated metal, haphazard amateur cement work, dusty bottles.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 3600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Overhang

These ferns were parallel with the ground, but floating 10 feet above the ground, sticking out from the top of a wall built into the side of a hill.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/160 sec, f/1.4, ISO 1400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Crumbly

This is the same wall seen in “Beyond The Staircase Ruins”, but from a less edge-on perspective.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Random Old Wall

As I had done earlier in the day for “Polarizer Examples With the Moss and Ferns of Kyoto's Gioji Temple”, I did some impromptu no-tripod polarizer tests. Here's a long look at the path back to the road...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/200 sec, f/1.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Super-Mini Shrine

Near the road, far from the waterfall and the Kuuya Shrine complex, the stream had what appeared to be a little shrine in it, the size of a small birdhouse. I can't quite tell whether it was supposed to have been there, or was something that a storm had blown into the river and this was merely the spot it was currently resting.

At the road was another path that appeared to lead up the mountain to a temple. Not far along that steep path we came across a sign...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Tsukinowa-dera Temple: Open 9:30 ~ 3:30

Well, no problem, it was still just 2:00, and really, how far could it be?

The story of this hike is continued here, but the story of the waterfall itself is continued here....