This post describes how I made the funky-color Kyoto fall leaves image from the other day.

I'd wanted to check out the vine growing through a bamboo fence again, in afternoon light (as opposed to the morning shade I'd seen it in before), so I went back on Wednesday afternoon. It was a productive visit, with a few shots of the fence that will certainly find their way here in the future. However, the subject of today's post is what I saw when I looked up.

Kyoto's impressive autumn colors are in full force now, but there are [...]

This perhaps looks like a painting or a photo with a painting effect applied, but it's actually a combination of three photos I took yesterday, with no other special effects added. I'll describe how I made it in a later post; it's my hope for now that you'll simply be able to enjoy it.

The part shown above is just a small portion of the whole image, so that I could show some detail lost during the reduction required to fit a picture onto my blog. Even at that, it's from a version that was reduced to 25% of the [...]

Another product of my trip to Enkouji the other day (also see this post and this).

Like most of these kinds of pictures, this one really needs to be blown up to enjoy it in its full glory, so be sure to click on the image for a larger view.

While on a short bike ride with Anthony today, we came upon this bamboo fence with a colorful vine sticking through. I thought it was pretty.

"Deppresso," one of Coca-Cola Japan's Georgia line of coffees, is named to evoke feelings of "Deep Espresso."