Archive for the 'Fall Colors' CategoryFoliage, mostly from around Kyoto I'm exhausted after a long day of photography in north-east Kyoto, temple hopping with Damien Douxchamps visiting from Tsukuba (near Tokyo). Today's post is just a few quick pictures I picked out from two of the places. I used the polarizer filter today quite a bit (with moss and the leaves), and tried the shot above with a polarizer, without a polarizer, and at half power, and found that it looked best without. Without the white sheen of the reflections in the lower half of the photo (something the polarizer was quite effective at removing), the tray with the tea [...] View full post » 妙法院(京都市東山区)の景色。この記事の写真は処理過剰ばっかりですが、今日はそんな気分です。 (今週は特別拝観が有ります。お寺の中は中々美しいですが、残念ながら中では撮影禁止)。 I paid my first visit to the Myouhouin Temple (妙法院) in eastern Kyoto yesterday. The buildings are closed to the public except for early November, so I took the opportunity to visit on the first day of this year's open house. The good news is that the buildings and inner gardens and many artifacts on display were magnificently beautiful, but the bad news is that photography was not allowed at all. Still, well worth the ¥800 if you can get there before the open house ends on the 18th. The first building you enter on the open-house [...] View full post » Yesterday was a really blustery day, with cold, biting wind.... really the first true taste of autumn here in Kyoto. Made me want to peek at some of the many photos I haven't even look at yet from last year's fall-foliage season. Here are a few random photos from four separate outings with Paul Barr during the last week of November (last year). From the same outing: "Some Rustic Temple/Shrine Visits in Western Kyoto" and a bunch of shots on "A Few Colorful Kyoto Desktop Backgrounds from November". Yoshiminedera (善峯寺) is an autumn favorite. Shots from this particular outing appeared [...] View full post » Continuing from the other day's "First Look at the Ultra Modern (as in "Modern Art") Benesse House Museum Art”, a few shots from yesterday... Not sure whether this is the susuki that I like (seen often on my blog, as of late here, here, here, here, and here), but it's certainly pretty. To be continued... View full post » The fall colors won't get going in earnest in Kyoto for another month and a half, but I came across this leaf yesterday that seems to have begun things with gusto. 京都の秋はまだまだですが、この葉っぱは元気で速い。 View full post » |