We spent the day at Okunoshima Island (大久野島), a small island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea with an unsavory history, now better known as "Rabbit Island" because of its large population of wild rabbits. The rabbits have domesticated humans, having them provide food in return for the rabbits looking cute. Anthony has been a couple of times with Fumie's folks, but today was the first time we took him.

We had to leave before sunset, but it was still a pleasant view.

After arriving back on the mainland, the ferry turned around for the next trip...

(It's not really heading [...]

As I mentioned the other day in "Kyoto Fall-Color Preview With Impact: Impressionism in Lightroom", I stumbled across an artsy photo treatment in Lightroom that gives an interesting life to most any photo it's applied to. The more I played with it, the more I felt its gimmicky intensity is like the Auto Tune for images (Auto Tune is an audio-processing technique that can make most any singer sound in tune). I avoided it in the followup("Kyoto's Eikando Temple Continues to Amaze"), but it's hard to leave it completely alone, so here are a few more...

Here's one that's darker [...]

After "discovering" yesterday that I'd not even looked at thousands of photos from last year's fall-foliage season, I thought I'd go through a bit more today to pick some from the first batch, an outing to the Eikando Temple (永観堂) in eastern Kyoto. Unlike yesterday's highly "artsy" shots, these are pretty straightforward.

I posted an almost identical pagoda photo a couple of years ago, though it was later in the season then, and the light wasn't as good. Many of the shots on today's post are similar to previous years', as any of the under-image "nearby photos" links will attest....

I can't believe it's been a week since I last posted... time has just evaporated as I've been working on a new Lightroom project. Taking a break from that, and realizing that Kyoto is just a few weeks from the start of its most glorious fall-foliage season, I thought I'd dip into my archives from last year for some "Fall Foliage Preview" shots for this year. I was dumbfounded to find several thousand photos from a bunch of outings that I'd not even looked at yet. Always just too busy.

Anyway, I was futzing with a throw-away photo in Lightroom, [...]

Here are a few final photos from the Ikebana show that I talked about the other day. As I wrote then, the works are just lined up on folding tables right in front of unappealing backdrops, so it's not a great situation for photography....

... under mixed lighting...

... in a crowd...

Nevertheless, here are some shots showing a variety of ikebana works and details. Not all are my cup of tea, but I like many of them....