Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 42mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Garden All to Themselves
Heian Shrine (平安神宮), Kyoto Japan

Today's post is the final installment of the story started in “Taran and Kate at the Heian Shrine”. The previous installment ended with our having to wait for a massive crowd to clear. After all three of them 🙂 left, we had the place to ourselves.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 62mm — ¹/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Putting Away the Sun Glasses
for a darker area of the gardens

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/500 sec, f/5, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
With a Gray Heron
I'd hoped it would fly just as they passed, but it didn't move

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
With Another Heron

It was only as I was walking around to join them that the first heron decided to fly away...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 140 — map & image data — nearby photos
See Ya'

Birds in flight are almost as difficult to photograph as children (a bird's movement is marginally less erratic). I'm focus-challenged in the best of times, but in this case it was compounded by the fact that I had the manual-focus-only Voigtländer 125mm/f2.5 mounted. Given all that, the result isn't too bad.

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 125 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 35mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
Stepping Stones

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 160 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 48mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 560 — map & image data — nearby photos
Always the Gentleman

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm — ¹/500 sec, f/8, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 140mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
On the Way Out

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135mm — ¹/800 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/2000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Fuzzy
I missed focus on this first shot

I'd seen this bench with its “Beware of Hairy Caterpillars” sign on the way to meet them, so when I saw that Taran had a thick fuzzy beard, I thought we could have some fun with it, along the lines of the two-shot sequence seen here.

I love their smiles in the shot above... I just wish I'd focused better. 🙁

After that, I bid them adieu with one last snap...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bye!

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 140 — map & image data — nearby photos