I came across these photos in my archive, from our trip to Horseshoe Bend in 2015, and thought I'd post them.

For the most part the view in this area tended to look like this:

So, these two girls isolated in front of the view made for a nice shot...

I thought the scene was sufficiently photogenic that I chatted with them a bit, and later sent copies.

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The fall-foliage season is mostly over in Kyoto. During this season I re-discovered and explored some wonderful areas within walking distance from my house.

It started when a friend suggested that I visit a temple nearby, sending a map link, so I headed off towards it.

The map link brought me to one of the entrances to a big graveyard behind the Konkaikomyou-ji Temple, an area with a lot of visual richness. I went in to explore.

Despite the English word "gravestone", there are no bodies buried here, just little fragments of bone in a cavity under the stone, as [...]

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I popped out early this morning to visit the Eisho-in temple (栄摂院、京都市), first seen on my blog a week ago in "A Few Views of Kyoto’s Spectacular Eisho-in Temple". It really does pack a visual punch for such a small place, and I had it completely to myself the whole time I was there.

Continued here...

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I had a lovely walk today, with Paul and Akiko, who's in town taking a break from crazy international travels as a professional photographer. I put up a few photos at Strava until I can do a proper blog post.

One bummer from the day is that my camera came unscrewed from its strap, as I apparently didn't tighten it well enough. I first noticed the problem when I saw my Nikon D4 bouncing one way, and the bulk of a $1,000 Cosina Voigtländer Macro APO-Lanthar 125mm F2.5 SL bouncing another way. Oops.

The impact was taken by three screws [...]

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A thought process:

I like cookies. I love free cookies. Gee, it would sure be nice if cookies were always free, don't you think? The government should compel, by force of law, bakeries to give cookies away for free!!

At what point do you think the thought process crossed the line? If you like cookies, I bet you agree with #2 and #3, so why not agree with #4? Why not compel bakeries to give cookies away?

By their very definition, laws and regulations compel people to act a certain way, whether they like it or not. It removes their [...]

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