After yesterday's first taste of autumn while being stuck with nothing better than a point-n-shoot, I thought I'd head back to the same area today with some better equipment. I brought my Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR zoom, a Nikon TC-17EII 1.7× teleconverter (my first outing with it), and my monopod. And Anthony.

What I neglected to bring was enough time, light, or skill.

I got there just before the last direct rays of light disappeared, and without the dynamic clouds of yesterday, there were no visual fireworks in the sky, so the whole point of being there sort [...]

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Anthony and I went out today to try the remote control car he got from Grandma and Grandpa for his birthday last week, our schedule or the weather conspiring to prevent us until today.

We headed to the rear of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (in the same area as the "Hanami and Lunch" picture on this post) and gave it a try. I happened to have my point-n-shoot with me, so snapped a couple of pictures...

I'd not charged the battery in the week after opening it, so about the time he was getting used it, silly me, [...]

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Finishing up my Kyoto fall-color preview featuring pictures from last year that didn't make the cut a the time, here are four final images to get one into the autumn mood. (Previous installments: Part I, Part II.)

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Continuing with the Fall Color Preview from last week, here are a few more from Kyoto last year.

The next few pics are from Enkouji Temple, where I took many of the pictures that appeared in last year's Fall Foliage Desktops post.

The next shot is of one of the fusuma (sliding doors) inside the temple.

The next shot is representative of a common scene around town, with many colors mixed together.

The problem is getting a nice shot without wires, poles, signs, and other visual litter. Here's a wider shot of the same scene, showing that the [...]

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Looking at my server logs lately, it's clear that people are looking forward to fall, as I can see the popularity of posts like the following bubble higher:

The Color of Kyoto — Desktop Background Kyoto Fall Foliage Desktops Photoshop's "Darken" Blend Mode (and more fall-foliage desktops)

Those three are particularly popular at the moment, mostly via people coming from the search engines' text and image search. As fall gets closer, more and more posts from my Japan, Fall Colors category will become more popular.

Fall hits Kyoto a month or more later than it seems to hit elsewhere in [...]

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