I had an amazing afternoon at an ikebana (flower-arranging) show held at the Shoren'in Temple. 600 photos to sift through.... above is one that caught my eye.

Continued here...

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The fall colors won't get going in earnest in Kyoto for another month and a half, but I came across this leaf yesterday that seems to have begun things with gusto.

京都の秋はまだまだですが、この葉っぱは元気で速い。

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The other day while my wife was preparing for her ballet recital, I wandered around the shrine complex across the street from the venue. That's where I snapped the "Cute Little Melodrama in Five Photos" sequence that I posted the other day.

The direct sun made for harsh lighting that I just didn't have the skill to deal with well, so from a technical point of view these photos are crap, all lacking a certain richness. I'll have to head back on a lightly-cloudy day. Still, it's a pretty area, so even crappy photos are not too bad to look [...]

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A year ago I took a nice scooter drive into the mountains of northern Nara Prefecture, a trip that produced the following posts:

Perfect Flower in the Mountains of Nara Highlight of Yesterday’s Mountain Ride: Friendly Farmer Lady Stages of the Rice Harvest More From the Rice Harvest After the Rice Harvest

This post is a collection of random other photos from that trip.

Next we have three photos that are as different upon inspection as they appear to be the same at first glance....

A different view of a fisherman at this lake also appeared on this post of [...]

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As I wait for my laptop to come back from the shop, I realized that this gives me an opportunity to actually revisit the 93,462 photos in the Lightroom catalog on my desktop computer, which I haven't looked at since moving my photo-processing workflow my laptop a year and a half ago.

Then, as now, I was always behind on what I wanted to post, so there must be thousands of things waiting to be shared that will never see the light of day. Lacking the energy for a real search, I decided to go with the first thing that [...]

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