I paid a visit to the Yoshiminedera Temple in the mountains of south-west Kyoto today, and the resulting photos pretty much covered all the main things I normally have on my blog. Let's run through some of them....

Above we have a vertical desktop background, which I started doing four years ago. I've now posted 385 of them.

And here's a wigglegram featuring Ai (who appeared with her husband in this photoshoot a year and a half ago)...

I first started making these things that I call “wigglegrams” two years ago, and I still have a lot of work yet to make them better. I've only just realized that I really need to ensure a faster shutter than normal static shots, because (duh!) I'm moving; the frames at the end of the one above are quite blurry. And I've got to move more smoothly... this one is still a bit wonky.

Of course, I need to have a photo of people taking photos...

... and of folks gathered to see a nice view...

... and folks pointing at something...

... and someone holding a quince...

Okay, that last one is not common on my blog, but you've got to start sometime.

It's been five months since I've posted a cautionary example about remembering to use a polarizing filter, so here's one:

Without / 無し   -   With / 有り

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Three years ago I posted “Heading Out To Photograph The Fall Foliage? Don’t Forget The Polarizer Filter” using photos from this very temple, but I'm getting better in my processing because I can use my wigglegram technology to align the shots. (Other polarizing-example posts include wet grass, polished granite, wet rocks, lotus leaves, a mountain stream, a bed of moss, and my first post on the subject six and a half years ago, “A Few Polarization-Filter Examples”.)

And speaking of both “wigglegram technology” and “things that often appear on my blog”, here's killing two birds with one stone: another wigglegram, and Damien Douxchamps and his famous red hat posing Terminator Style with his Nikkor 70-200 zoom lens:

This is on the steps leading up from the parking lot, before the entrance. They were the last photos I took before we moved on to the next temple.

But we're not done yet with the tour of stuff commonly found on my blog. Here's a normal landscape-mode desktop background (the 841^st), taken from about where Damien is standing in the wigglegram above, of the temple's entrance, a couple of hours earlier on the way in.

Of course, it certainly wouldn't be an autumn post without a photo of Paul Barr smiling...

...or a photo of the back of his head while he snaps a photo of a pretty scene...

We need a photo showing people staring inquisitively at something, while also giving a sense of context for the scale or slope of the place...

... and of someone using a smartphone to take a photo of the thing being stared at, in this case, a garden-friendly spider...

I've much more to post out of the 706 photos I took at this temple (and the mere 270 at the other one we visited today), including even a “What am I?” quiz, but they'll have to wait for another day.

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