Last November I posted a wigglegram on “Elegance in Kyoto’s Tenjyuan Garden”. (If you don't know what wigglegram is, check out the post and be sure to move your mouse over the picture). Even though I shot more than 70 gigabytes worth of photos that day, I still haven't shared anything else from that garden except for one representative photo on “A Long But Photogenic November in Kyoto”.

So, today I'm finally posting a few more from that visit to the Tenjyuan Garden (天授庵), a sub-temple of the famous Nanzenji Temple. It was my first visit.

I seem to have a bunch like this on today's post... sort of soft and undefined. The light was very strong/harsh that day, making many shots difficult, so most results that ended up appealing to me were all-in-the-shade soft ones.

I really like this next one, though I can't put into words why....

A gate between sections of the temple compound, a difficult mix between brilliant sunshine and deep shadow...

It's not really that appealing a shot. The aforementioned wigglegram was taken on the other side of the gate where there was more uniform shade, which is why it came out better. In it, you can see the gate in the background.

The two ladies that kindly posed for the wigglegram made the photogenic temple areas all the better, so let's see other shots with them...

(The balance of the one above is not quite right... I wish I had zoomed out just a bit more.)

At one point after we'd taken the wigglegram and had moved on to another area (a nice garden with a lake in the center), Paul was taking some shots of them and I joined in...

I realized a bit too late that I was spoiling Paul's shots by distracting the girls.... my being there right behind Paul with my camera meant that the girls split their attention between me and Paul. Big mistake on my part, sorry Paul. Lesson learned.

Before we parted ways I tried to take a quick shot of Paul with the ladies, but I screwed up the focus big time. As I did with the shot of Jill the other day, I'm trying to pull something interesting out of the mistake by giving it an “artistic” treatment...

Same thing for an out-of-focus shot as the ladies went on their way...

Later I came across another lady in Kimono, but the post in the center of the frame ruins what otherwise would, I think, be a great shot...

Many scenes at this temple had a great sense of depth that I just couldn't capture. The layers of tree seen in this next shot is a great example... in real life it was almost some kind of “hyper 3D” feeling, but the photo just doesn't quite cut it.

While on the subject of “spacey”, here's one I like that has almost nothing in focus...

This and the similar one above (“Soft”) remind me of “Dream” from a post in November.