Here's a desktop-background version with framing I like better:

That was the last photo I took on Saturday. Sort of in keeping with the timeline nature of my recent "was a busy November!" post, I'll show my first photo from the day, taken from a bridge after a hurried stop and fighting to cross traffic to get to the appropriate side of the bridge in time:

This was 2½ hours earlier (and 1.6km south) from the intense rainbow that I posted the other day.

Continued here...

Here are a few more shots of that intense rainbow in Kyoto the other day. Following Damien Douxchamps' lead, I moved to the other side of the street to get the rainbow crossing over Arashiyama's famous Togetsukyo bridge (渡月橋).

The angle from that side of the bridge also omits the storm clouds seen in the previous post, just off to the left, that are providing the rain swept in on the wind to create the rainbows, so the clear-sky look seems a bit interesting (if perhaps improbable).

For reference, here's another view from where I initially shot the rainbow, showing [...]

November was a busy month for photo outings for me here in Kyoto. I took 8,954 photos during the month, though perhaps 1,500 of those were in the pursuit of wigglegrams. Still, that leaves about 7,500 to wade through, a task I will probably never complete.

Here's one photo from each place I went with the camera during the month, in chronological order. The "nearby photos" link under each photo brings you to other photos taken in the same area, perhaps on the same outing as the photo in question, or from other outings throughout the seasons...

I'm going to [...]

It was, at times, a cold miserable day in Kyoto today, but there's something to be said for being in the right place at the right time.

The rain the rainbows were created in was being swept in low from the mountains to the left. (Fittingly, this area of Kyoto's name, Arashiyama, means "Tempest Mountain".) Anyway, lacking altitude, they're not one of those tall half circles like this or this. It was quite a squished curve, but what lacked for in height it made up in intensity.

The bird in this one is a nice touch, and a bit more [...]

Ce post de blog est pour les parents de Damien Douxchamps, parce que Damien ne leur envoie pas assez de photos de lui-même.

This blog post is for Damien Douxchamps' parents in Belgium, because Damien, who has lived in Japan for the last eight years, doesn't send enough pictures of himself.

For the most part, Japanese reflexively flash a peace sign when a camera is pointed at them, something that drives most non-Japanese insane, so in the shot above, Damien is mimicking this to spoil my shot. Interestingly, though, he's doing it for exactly the same underlying reason that I [...]