I've been to the garden behind Nishimura Stone Lanterns (西村石灯籠) many times -- that link is just one of many posts; see the nearby photos link under any of these photos brings you to many more -- but yesterday was the first time in the snow. I posted a few moss/snow shots on my earlier post today.

There wasn't much snow, but enough to add just a touch of new character. I went with Zak Braverman and Nicolas Joannin...

For a few minutes the sun came out at the same time the snow got a little harder, and so I [...]

I'm adamant about keeping my blog content what  I  want to share; I hope others will happen to like it, of course, but I don't "pander for pageviews",* despite having been called an attention whore by a random Internet anonymous coward the other day. 🙂  So, I don't often pay much attention to my blog's pageview statistics, and I often go months without even seeing them, but I've looked at them this past week, and the results are interesting.

The photos on today's post, by the way, have nothing to do with the text; I just wanted to include some [...]

Continuing to dip into my 2010-and-before archives because my main computer is in the shop, today's posts are various views from the Shogunzuka overlook (将軍家) in eastern Kyoto, a 30-minute hike (or a 5-minute drive) from my place.

I used Lightroom's Map module to bring up all the images that are geoencoded to that spot (so that excludes early images before I started to geoencode), and picked some. These were taken from 2007 to 2010, with a Nikon D200 or a Nikon D700. Taking advantage of the modern render engine in Lightroom 4, I picked images that I could give [...]

Since my main computer (a laptop holding my photos for the last two years) is still in the shop, I'm taking random walks through the 90,000 photos in my desktop-computer's Lightroom catalog, dating through the end of 2010. I'm taking the opportunity to delete a lot of cruft, but occasionally run across shots I want to share because they're pretty or interesting or respond well to "weird" processing...

Photos on this post date from 2007 (with a Nikon D200) to 2010 (with a Nikon D700). But, at least, they benefit from 2013-level processing in the name of Lightroom 4 and, [...]

My laptop, where I do all my photo work for the last couple of years, is in the shop, so I'm having to dip back into the old Lightroom catalog on my old desktop machine, where I have photos from the 90s through the end of 2010. I hadn't looked at them in ages, and wow, the quality of my pics from back then is pretty bad, so there's slim pickings for blog posts until I get my laptop back.

But these two pics aren't so bad, relatively speaking. They're "October Cherry" blossoms from an early-autumn (Nov 9th) trip to [...]