Pleasant Sunset in Kyoto This Evening
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This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https://regex.info/blog/2012-09-24/2099  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 3600 — image data
This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto

Kyoto had a nice sunset this evening, nicer pehaps than those I've posted about of late (here, here, here, here, and here), but not as good as the best I've ever seen, and not, unfortunately viewed from the photogenic Shogunzuka overlook where I've gotten a lot of nice sunset shots over the years.

Still, it's always nice to have a nice sunset.

Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https://regex.info/blog/2012-09-24/2099  --  This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — 1/400 sec, f/8, ISO 2500 — image data

All 3 comments so far, oldest first...

Two off-topic questions: are those TV antennas in the second photo? And, in your city do most people see television via cable or antenna? Just curious. Thanks!

Looks like it, but I don’t know for sure. I don’t watch TV, nor do I know much about folks watch it, except that I believe that there are no longer analog broadcasts, so many (most?) of the TV antennas one sees (and one sees a lot) are left over from a bygone day. I recall that there were government programs to help folks replace their analog antennas with ones appropriate for digital, so those certainly do exist, and are perhaps the only way for folks in a private house (as opposed to a big condo unit with wired cable) to get broadcast television. —Jeffrey

— comment by Tom in SF on September 25th, 2012 at 5:28am JST (12 years ago) comment permalink

Jeffrey – Thanks for the info. We also went through a transition from analog to digital (on our cable), and received a set-top converter box to help the transition. Our cable happens to be a wire, but I recently visited a friend whose connection is via a small, square wi-fi antenna (because there is no cable at his house). Tom

— comment by Tom in SF on September 25th, 2012 at 12:15pm JST (12 years ago) comment permalink

Hi Jeff, Today’s sunset is exquisite. The colors are warm, and the temple in the foreground shows that it was taken in an authentic
Oriental setting. The five shot sequence of the independent little girl and her understanding Papa is heart-warming. Keep up with the
many wonderful pictures of Kyoto. Father Mac in Kyoto

— comment by Father Mac on September 26th, 2012 at 3:09pm JST (12 years ago) comment permalink
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