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Watching Over a Frozen Kyoto
temple at Shogunzuka, Kyoto Japan

Last night we a short but intense snow flurry that dropped about 2" of snow in 15 minutes, leaving the mountains this morning with a nice frosting.

The building seen above is at Shogunzuka, covered in “Inside the “New” Temple Building at Shogunzuka Overlooking Kyoto” and, more widely, a bit earlier in “New Views of Kyoto from Shogunzuka’s New Observation Deck”.

A bit farther north, hikers were enjoying the clearing on Mt. Daimonji:

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500mm — ¹/2000 sec, f/6.3, ISO 900 — map & image data — nearby photos

The clearing is where the fires are lit during the Daimonji Festival each August, as covered in “Daimonji: Kyoto’s Least-Photogenic Festival”, and in its photographic rebuttal “Daimonji Fire Festival Up Close and Personal: Yaron Silberberg’s Photos from Last Year”.

It's a simple hike to the clearing, though perhaps more challenging with slippery snow.

Nikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500mm — ¹/2000 sec, f/10, ISO 2500 — map & image data — nearby photos
Frosty

I tend to like this kind of frosty-cold-with-sharp-detail image, though my favorite is probably the photo seen exactly nine years ago today in “Snowy Mountains”. At first glance it's a boring photo, but I find it to be interesting at full, sharp resolution.

Also in the same realm is “Bridge Over Icy Water”, which then itself made a reappearance as a print in “Dabbling in Some Fine-Art Printing for My Office”.