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Boatride at Dusk
Arashiyama area of Kyoto, Japan
I had a pleasant evening yesterday, with a relaxing boat ride on the Katsura River, in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto. An elementary-school friend of Manseki was in town and invited Manseki, who in turn invited some friends, which included me.
I took the subway and tram across town. At the final station, there's a “Kimono Forest”, a small but well-done art installation...
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“Kimono Forest”
Randen Arashiyama Station
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I then met up with others at the boat dock for the two-hour ride...
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Piling In
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Our Gondolier
for lack of a better name
(the real name is sendo, 船頭, “boatman”)
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“Cheers”
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Togetsukyo
Arashiyama's famous Togetsukyo bridge has been seen on my blog many times, including here here and here, but never quite from this angle. It's sort of out of focus in the background, with the haphazard posts in focus in the foreground lying in front of a small waterfall, to stop the errant boat from going over. Luckily, this was as close as we got.
A few years ago, this river flooded so high that the posts were submerged... five times over. The water crested the bridge. I blogged about it, and you can see a news video at the bottom of “A Bit More Rain in Kyoto Than Normal”
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Another Boat
among the very few still out this evening
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Misty
it had been raining on and off much of the afternoon
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Me
photo by Manseki Kanemitsu
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Relaxing Time
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Friends for 50+ Years
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Manseki's Mock “Displeased” Face
I'd just exclaimed how beautiful the small building in the background was
(it's public toilets)
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Duskier
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Duskiest
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Not Bad
for 1/10th of a second hand-held on a moving boat
(it's no Atta Terrace, but still not bad)
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Me
around about the same time
photo by Manseki Kanemitsu
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Heading Back
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Disemboating
photo by Manseki Kanemitsu
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Back at the Kimono Forest
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Lion Dog
This man had a vibe that implied he took this path
with the express intent of spoiling others' photos,
so I made him and his little rat dog my photo.
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For the “shot” above I took a hand-held high-speed exposure-bracketed burst so that I could feed it to Lightroom's automatic HDR processing (via Library's “Photo > Photo Merge > HDR” command). It never ceases to amazing me what it can do with low-quality ingredients like this. I then took a heavy hand at some further processing, correcting the perspective distortion, removing the utility wires and such in the background, and removing a few manhole-cover like things that had been placed incongruously in the path.
For the most part I'm not a fan of HDR, because it's usually used too heavily, creating an unnatural result. It's effective here, though, to show the richness of the various kimono fabrics. It seems that I've used this technique for only one other blog post, on some shots in “Discovering Kyoto’s Wonderful Toji-in Temple on a Tour with NORU” a couple of years ago. (On the other hand, I sort of did some poor-man's HDR in “Exposing for Single-Shot HDR”.)
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Wife of Manseki's Friend
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Odd Fabric for a Kimono
perhaps for Obon?
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Meeting Minnie
this man was much nicer, and his dog more beautiful
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Minnie and Yifen
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Back Toward Home
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A Car To Ourselves
because everyone else was at the Gion Matsuri festival
Sounds so lovely and peaceful.
Are you sure “disemboating” isn’t a word you just made up. which is so much more descriptive than
“disembarking.?
I’m sure it is a word I just made up. Chuckled as I did so. —Jeffy
Jeff, did you (& others) brought the pupus or was that provided as part of the boat ride?
I had to look up “pupus” and am still not sure what you mean, but if you mean the food and drink, we brought it along. Normally there are boats that will swing by selling drinks and snacks, but with the rain they had all closed up shop, so we just dropped into a convenience store for supplies. —Jeffrey
Lovely photos as always.
Thanks, Jeffrey
“Pu pu” is Hawaiian word for food. A search showed the definition in sense of appetizers. The usage that I have noticed is thus:
– light pupus: light finger food (why even bother; something to put in mouth with coffee/tea/water). “Light” is mentioned not to expect much;
– pupus: decent amount of appetizers (does not replace lunch/dinner but one may delay that for later);
– heavy pupus: pig out … I mean enough food. “Heavy” is specifically mentioned to plan accordingly.
““Pu pu” is Hawaiian word for food.”
Funny. In English, it’s what food turns into! 🙂
I so much love the kimono desktop background. There is a person standing at the end of the path, I guess was not easy to have it empty. There was another similar case in a past blog where you took a picture of a garden in a temple and somebody spot a person in the vegetation 🙂