Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/80 sec, f/4.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos Garden-Viewing Room at the Daihouin Temple (妙心寺大法院) Kyoto, Japan Desktop-Background Versions 1280×800  ·  1680×1050  ·  1920×1200  ·  2560×1600  ·  2880×1800 Nikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/125 sec, f/1.4, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos Green Tea and […]
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On the outing the other day that produced yesterday's "A Few Pretty Pictures from Kyoto's Middle-of-Nowhere Sourenji Temple" post, I brought along a 50mm f/1.2 lens. I don't use that lens much and need to learn how to use it... my limited experience to date has been chronicled in "Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 and a 50mm f/1.2" four years ago, and "Artsy-Fartsy in Kyoto, at f/1.2" five yeas ago.

I'm about to head out this morning for some more fall-foliage photography, but I thought I'd quickly post this pair of shots at different apertures.

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As I mentioned in this morning's post, I went on a drive to the northern mountains of Kyoto yesterday. Our first stop was the middle-of-nowhere Sourenji Temple (宗蓮寺).

It was cold and the light was lush. On the way from where we parked I snapped this picture, which unfortunately has a local farmer going by in his little truck and Paul Barr caught mid step, but the richness is almost unreal...

There were a bunch of very oddly pruned trees whose bottom half looked like large bonsai trees, with tall super-thin shoots doubling the height from there...

The style does [...]

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I stopped by the Koutouin Temple the other day, in the Daitokuji complex in north-central Kyoto. It wasn't quite peak of its fall-foliage colors, but it was quite. (I stopped by two years ago at a time when it was at the peak of color and it's quite nice then as well.)

One of my personal favorite photos comes from the first time I visited this temple, of a lady in kimono on this path.

Anyway, here's a wigglegram to give you more of a sense of the view...

And for good measure, here's a vertical-background view...

Sort of odd, [...]

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I've been down with a cold since my previous post the other day, of another pair of lovely ladies in kimono. That post (like this post) came from a creative, productive outing with Paul Barr, but I'm somewhat dreading the 70 gigabytes of data awaiting me.

I did find enough energy today to prepare this wigglegram, taken at the old (circa 1880) aqueduct behind the Nanzen Temple.

Continued here...

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