I'm mixing things up today by dipping into the large backlog of stuff I want to post, to my trip last December to the Jingoji Temple in north-west Kyoto.

今日の写真は去年の秋の神護寺(じんごじ、京都市)の裏にある散歩道。

This location is actually only about a mile away from the Kuuya-taki Waterfall that I've been posting about recently, but it's a very mountainous mile and the two locations feel worlds apart. To drive between them, for example, would take a considerable time because it entails a long loop into the city and back.

I'd made a few introductory posts from that trip, including "On The Path To (and From) [...]

Some more shots from the outing that started with "Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple" and covered in a bunch of posts until the most recent, "Taking It Easy With Some Flowers".

Here's a shot of me, shooting the same mushrooms seen in "Nicolas's White Little Mushrooms"...

The other side of the fence roof had some nails sticking out such that you could tell where the board used to be before it rotted away...

Let's try that again, but with a thinner depth of field...

Now you can really see them.

The rest of [...]

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 [...]