Picking up the story of last month's visit to the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in western Kyoto, where the story started with "Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall" and, after intermediate posts about bugs and bark, was most recently addressed in "Finally Reaching the Kuuya-taki Waterfall".

At one point in the approach to the waterfall you pass under the stone shrine gate seen earlier, and from there off to one side are the ruins of an old stone staircase being reclaimed by the mountain. We decided to see where it went.

The staircase is very steep, and barely there. The first [...]

Some more shots from the outing that started with "Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple" and covered in a bunch of posts until the most recent, "Taking It Easy With Some Flowers".

Here's a shot of me, shooting the same mushrooms seen in "Nicolas's White Little Mushrooms"...

The other side of the fence roof had some nails sticking out such that you could tell where the board used to be before it rotted away...

Let's try that again, but with a thinner depth of field...

Now you can really see them.

The rest of [...]

In my previous post, which continued on from "Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall", we got as far as the shrine gate seen above, not knowing that just beyond it was a wonderful waterfall.

Not knowing there was a wonderful waterfall meant that we weren't prepared for a wonderful waterfall, so the shots on this post are lacking, but okay considering the circumstances.

There were some large rocks far enough away that the mist wasn't too bad, so I tried to set the camera up on them for a longer shot, while Nicolas apparently made good use of the [...]

This post picks up from where "Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall" left off the other day. After venturing through a cluster of buildings, I had stopped on a little bridge to take some shots of the water, and Nicolas snapped the photo above.

In the picture above you can see a large tree growing out of the rocks to the left of me. Between that tree and the rocks to the foreground, the stream came pouring through in a little waterfall at eye level that I tried to capture. (The stream then continued under the bridge I was [...]

As I mentioned yesterday in "Discovery On The Way to The Waterfall", Kyoto biologist Nicolas Joannin sort of likes bugs, so I find myself snapping pictures of the little devils when I'm out with him.

The image above is a crop from this shot:

Warning: this post has pictures of bugs. Don't scroll if you're squeamish. (I'm quite squeamish about bugs, so nothing too wild on this post.)

We were at the Gioji Temple (as I've been posting about, starting with "Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple"), and when we weren't [...]