I've posted only the tiniest fraction of recent photos that I want to post, and today I'm making a slight dent in the backlog by revisiting the photogenic day last December that yielded “Intense Rainbow Over Arashiyama” and its longer followup, and also “Pretty and Colorful Public Path in Arashiyama”, a post that highlighted the first and last shots of that day's outing.

The rainbow/mountain scene above was taken a few minutes after the aforementioned first shot of the outing. I prefer the ultra-widescreen view that the “first shot” has, but wanted to have something for my desktop background, so cropped the one above more aggressively to achieve the proper aspect ratio.

The photo was taken from a bridge looking north. The view to the south also had interest...

The wider aspect ratio of this one causes it to look smaller in my blog's presentation, but clicking through yields a larger version you should be able to scroll side to side.

I was on a temple-hopping outing with Damien Douxchamps, and our first stop was Suzumushidera (鈴虫寺)....

There was a long line for the temple so we decided to skip it, but the scene at the top of the stairs had many photogenic opportunities, including this fallen leaf stuck in the bare branches of a shrub. I normally tend to prefer richer, higher-contrast shots, but something about this mostly-washed-out scene appeals to me.

The appeal of the next shot is equally baffling to me; perhaps it's the colors...

We quickly moved on to the next spot, but before we go, two more washed-out somehow-appeals-to-me shots from the area...