I stopped by the Koutouin Temple the other day, in the Daitokuji complex in north-central Kyoto. It wasn't quite peak of its fall-foliage colors, but it was quite. (I stopped by two years ago at a time when it was at the peak of color and it's quite nice then as well.)

One of my personal favorite photos comes from the first time I visited this temple, of a lady in kimono on this path.

Anyway, here's a wigglegram to give you more of a sense of the view...

And for good measure, here's a vertical-background view...

Sort of odd, [...]

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I've been down with a cold since my previous post the other day, of another pair of lovely ladies in kimono. That post (like this post) came from a creative, productive outing with Paul Barr, but I'm somewhat dreading the 70 gigabytes of data awaiting me.

I did find enough energy today to prepare this wigglegram, taken at the old (circa 1880) aqueduct behind the Nanzen Temple.

Continued here...

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I shot more than 3,500 frames today -- 70 gigabytes of raw data -- for about 470 potential wigglegrams. Above is one.

These two ladies from Osaka had wonderful kimono and wonderful smiles. I didn't want to impose on them much, so set up the shot and took it within seconds; despite the rush, I'm happy enough with the result.

大阪から来はったお姉ちゃんたち、ポーズしてくれた有り難う。

I actually had 17 frames in the sequence, but the marginal improvement in appearance is not worth double the bandwidth, so I'm using every other frame.

My shooting technique has a long way to go, but what I really [...]

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This post continues the story started in "A Somewhat Lackluster Day of Photography at Kyoto’s Shouzan Resort", last touched upon yesterday with a bunch of wigglegrams from the garden.

The only other time I came (as seen two years ago in "Photo Shoot Among the Fall Colors at Shouzan"), I hadn't realized that it was just a small part of a larger resort complex. This time I did, so did a bit of exploring.

The path from the main part of the "resort" (which dates from 1948) is through a heavily wooded and freely-accessible park, beautiful in its own right [...]

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This post contains more "Wigglegrams" made from photos I took on the same outing to Kyoto's Shouzan Resort (しょうざん) as the Wigglegram I posted the other day.

Having been made the same time as the previous one, these are not a refinement on the concept, but simply other attempts, some better, some worse.

The first three presented below are simple two-frame wigglegrams, so there's no feeling of "movement"... just "3D". They are much less compelling than the many-frame wigglegrams we'll see later.

Animatable Wigglegram (2 frames) -- sweep the mouse from side to side to view 3D effect 写真の上をマウスであちこちに動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。 Engulfed [...]
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