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 [...]

The other day I posted my first attempt at a waterfall shot, in "A Snapshot From Today's Hike: Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto". I'd made an unplaned visit with Nicolas Joannin after the visit to the Gioji Temple that I've been posting about lately.

We discovered the waterfall in the same way that I discover a lot of thing, by following a small mountain road that I'd seen on a map and wondered why it was there. After a while of narrow deep-mountain winding sometimes-rough roads not unlike these I wrote about last year, we came to a small turnoff [...]

Today was another busy day leaving little room for a blog post (on the plus side, I cleaned my room, but on the other hand, so to speak, Anthony fractured a finger while playing ball at school), so like yesterday, I'm taking it easy, this time with a few simple images from the Shouseien Temple (渉成園), which we first saw the other day in "First Peek at the Shouseien Temple in Downtown Kyoto".

I'm normally good about getting an "establishing shot" that shows the context for some detail or other that I want to share, but I seem to have [...]

I've been busy with my Lightroom plugin stuff all weekend, so just a simple post today on some pretty flowers found among the moss during a recent visit to the Gioji Temple (祇王寺) in Kyoto.

We'll start with what I assume is some hydrangea (ajisai - アジサイ) just beginning to bloom...

It frankly doesn't look much in the small thumbnail, but clicking through to the larger version has the tiny buds in the center come alive like stars in a nebulae (or something like that).

I tried a side-view approach to get the petals edge on, and I shouldn't have [...]