文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Temples and Shrines' CategoryPosts about various temples and shrines The image above is a tiny version (click to enlarge somewhat) of a "painting" I made from a photo I took at Ryouanji (龍安寺 -- the Ryouan Temple in Kyoto Japan) a couple of years ago. One of the toys I picked up on my trip to The States is a Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet, which came with a copy of Corel's Painter Essentials 3 that I used to paint-ize the photo. Corel's product is a mixed bag. It's just fantastic when it works, but it had a tendency to crash on me every five or 10 minutes, just [...] 
View full post » Just because I'm in America doesn't mean that photos from Kyoto's stop, because I've got gazoodles of them waiting in the wings. I'd earlier thought I'd be able to use this trip to catch up on my Kyoto photos, not realizing the family photo opportunities that awaited us here (playing with a toy backhoe, a visit to a farm, a round of kid golf, or even my son wearing a sweater I wore when I was five years old). Today I dip into my archives to last month's visit to Kyoto's Giouji Temple (祇王寺), to follow up on the post [...] 
View full post » Peter requested some fern pictures. I happen to have a few poorly-photographed fern pictures in my library, so here they are.... The next three fuzzy shots were taken in the dark shade under deep forest cover, handheld, while on a short hike in the hills with Anthony last May. I've got a monopod on order now, which hopefully should make this kind of situation easier to photograph, but in any case, here are the shots I did get: The next picture is sad. I took it when we stopped in the mountains in the middle of nowhere to eat our [...] 
View full post » Here are a few more shots from Kyoto's Giouji Temple (祇王寺), to add to the other posts in the set (linked via the "related posts" box below). I love how the "do not enter" gate uses a piece of bamboo set into notched pillars of granite. A classy touch. 
View full post » As I mentioned in my previous post, I made a rain-drenched visit to the Hougon'in Temple (宝厳院) in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto yesterday. Like the nearby Giouji Temple (祇王寺) that I recently discovered, there's lots of moss and architecture elements made with only natural materials. In that last category, Hougon'in seems to have the edge, because it has such a wide variety of things (fences, gates, barriers, path markers, ...) and all seem to be made from bamboo and twine... no nails, wire, screws, or the like. On the other hand, it's also much more "busy" a site, with [...] 
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