{"id":1952,"date":"2012-03-07T20:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-07\/1952"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T11:40:45","slug":"setsubun-festival-at-the-heian-shrine-intense-burn-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-07\/1952","title":{"rendered":"Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/16, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThe Burn Continues<\/span>\nHeian Shrin, Kyoto Japan\n<\/div>\n\n

Taking a break from the craziness that ensued for me yesterday when Lightroom 4<\/span> was released<\/a>, I thought<\/span> I'd pick up from last month's “Setsubun Festival at the\nHeian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins<\/a>”.<\/p>\n\n

Once the blaze was going in earnest, they started throwing bundles of\nwooden slats into the fire, each slat with someone's wish for good health\nor the like written on it...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHalfway Done<\/span>\nwith one of the pallets\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAnother 50<\/span><\/span>\nadded to the burn\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 220 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRinse and Repeat<\/span>\n( meaning “do again”, a reference<\/span> to common instructions on shampoo bottles )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 280 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 280 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 220 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFire Poker<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The heat for the fire-poker guy must have been almost unbearable. It was very<\/span> very hot, even for me upwind 20 meters (two highway-bus lengths) away. But he could<\/span> never retreat.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nPurple and Pink<\/span>\nobserve from a distance\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStill a Bit<\/span> Angry<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 1250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStill Chanting<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStill Cooking<\/span>\nin the warmth of the still-setting sun\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nDrum Accompaniment<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nShort Attention Spans<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1600 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 220 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWinding Down<\/span>\nbut still ferocious at the base\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>5000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nPainting With Convection Currents<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

As I wrote about in “Intense Burn: A Few<\/span> More\nLooks at the Bubbling Cauldron of Boiling Air<\/a>”, the intense heat of the\nflames made for amazing patterns in the air, enhanced by the ultra\nthin-depth of field of the lens.<\/p>\n\n

Here's a crop of the upper-right corner of the shot above... it looks like a painting<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>5000 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThat's Some Intense Heat<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

It makes me think that perhaps I don't<\/span> need Coral Painter Essentials to create prints like this<\/a> to hang on my office wall... I just need<\/span> an intense bonfire.<\/p>\n\n

And for something completely different, on the way home I saw<\/span> a pair<\/span> of fuzzy black boots appear seemingly minutes before the wearer came into view.\nOnce the wearer caught up to them, I snapped<\/span> a photo<\/span> so I could<\/span> share the latest Kyoto fashions with the world...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>2500 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 2800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStrike Up The “Charlie's Angels” Theme<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from the craziness that ensued for me yesterday when Lightroom 4 was released, I thought I'd pick up from last month's \"Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins\".<\/p>

Once the blaze was going in earnest, they started throwing bundles of wooden slats into the fire, each slat with someone's wish for good health or the like written on it...<\/p>

The heat for the fire-poker guy must have been almost unbearable. It was very very hot, even for me upwind 20 meters (two highway-bus lengths) away. But he could never retreat.<\/p>

As I wrote about in [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,26,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}