My camera is exhausted, and now that I think about it, so am I.

Today I took 3,568 photos (70 gigabytes worth) because trying to make Wigglegrams at pretty temples in Kyoto. It was both addicting and exhausting.

Now the stress moves to my laptop and Lightroom, which will certainly groan under so many new pixels....

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This post continues the story started in "A Somewhat Lackluster Day of Photography at Kyoto’s Shouzan Resort", last touched upon yesterday with a bunch of wigglegrams from the garden.

The only other time I came (as seen two years ago in "Photo Shoot Among the Fall Colors at Shouzan"), I hadn't realized that it was just a small part of a larger resort complex. This time I did, so did a bit of exploring.

The path from the main part of the "resort" (which dates from 1948) is through a heavily wooded and freely-accessible park, beautiful in its own right [...]

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This post contains more "Wigglegrams" made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day.

Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse.

The first three presented below are simple two-frame wigglegrams, so there's no feeling of "movement"... just "3D". They are much less compelling than the many-frame wigglegrams we'll see later.

Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) -- sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect 写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。 Engulfed [...]
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So, this is the next evolution of my attempt at what Wikipedia calls "wiggle stereoscopy", but I hereby dub "Wigglegram".

(Update: I now have a wigglegram category on my blog to collect related posts.)

My first rough attempt was posted the other day as a two-frame animate GIF. This time I've brought the animation control to the user: just sweep your mouse from side to side over the image to animate, as slowly or quickly as you like. I did something like this years ago for my "Cherry Blossom Timelapse: Fleeting Floral Fireworks" post.

The scene is from the garden [...]

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My Friday was almost an exact repeat of my Thursday: a slow morning, a nice lunch, an afternoon of photography with Paul Barr among Kyoto's lovely fall foliage, a few hours of family time, then drinks and snacks and some Lightroom photo processing at the surprisingly-tasty hole-in-the-wall A's Bar near Shijo Kawaramachi.

The only real difference was the location of the photography, this time at the gardens of the Shouzan Resort, which visited two years ago.

First looking at the day's photos with Paul at the bar, we jumped around and picked sort of randomly ones that seemed to be [...]

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