Archive for the 'Fall Colors' CategoryFoliage, mostly from around Kyoto Almost identical to the lead photo of the previous post ("The Building at the Main Garden of the Kongorinji Temple"), but with a human touch. View full post » Last week's "Slightly Queasy Wigglegram" showed a small corner of a building at the Kongorinji Temple (金剛輪寺) in Shiga Japan, from a visit last month toward the start of this year's fall-foliage season. This post looks a bit more at the building, which is not the temple's main building, but does front the main garden. (The main garden was seen four years ago in "The Kongourinji Temple: Main Garden, and Beyond".) It can be partitioned into various rooms, but many of the partitions were slid away revealing an open view all the way through to the garden on the [...] View full post » This post is about the art and technology of my 3D wigglegrams, but first a bit of context about the location seen above. This wigglegram was taken during my first visit to Kyoto's Shugakuin Imperial Villa (修学院離宮) two years ago, a photographically-fruitful outing first posted about here, and most recently revisited a month ago here. During the tour of the grounds, at one point you descend stone steps set in the side of a mountain.... There's a waterfall and a small stream... it's all quite picturesque. As I described on that first post about the outing, the tour moves along [...] View full post » In "Approaching the Shodensanso Villa" last week, we ended looking at the main entrance to the 86-year-old grand villa just outside of Kyoto. Here's a view from the entrance looking out. We received a half-hour talk in this room about the history of the place and the guy who built it (Tsunetaro Takaya). The whole time I just couldn't stop marveling at the ceiling, whose 4-foot-by-4-foot panels were each a solid board... After the lecture we were ushered to another room for, what turned out to be Tea Ceremony. For a bit I had the room mostly to myself... At [...] View full post » Two weeks ago toward the end of a full day of fall-foliage photography that I scratched the surface of in "The Whole Gamut of My Blog In One Spectacular Visit to the Yoshiminedera Temple", after a great lunch we made a short visit to Hanadera ("The Flower Temple", officially called the Shojiji Temple). Didn't see too many flowers, being the middle of November and all, but the fall colors were starting to get going. Here's a wigglegram to give a better sense of the area in front of the main building.... On the veranda of the main building is the [...] View full post » |