{"id":2074,"date":"2012-08-16T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-08-16\/2074"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:35:18","slug":"daimonji-kyotos-least-photogenic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-08-16\/2074","title":{"rendered":"Daimonji: Kyoto’s Least-Photogenic Festival"},"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
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 10000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\u5927<\/span>\nit's crowded (and hot) up there\n<\/div>\n\n

Today was the Daimonji\nFestival<\/a> in Kyoto, where big mountainside bonfires are lit in the\nevening. Normally I'm visiting my folks during the summer, so this was the\nfirst time in years for me to see it, and the first time since I became<\/span>\nparticularly interested in photography.<\/p>\n\n

It's not particularly photogenic, unless, I suppose,<\/span> you could get up closer to the fires.\n(For a look<\/span> at where the fires are lit, see “Daimonji\u2019s Hidoko Fire Pits<\/a>”)<\/p>\n\n

The snapshot above was done handheld with little forethought; with a bit<\/span>\nmore effort I'm sure I could<\/span> have gotten something more worthy, but frankly,\nif given the chance again I would<\/span> leave the camera at home and concentrate\non what appears to be the more festive aspect of the festival: enjoying a\ndrink<\/span> and good company under the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n

Update:<\/b> it seems I'm wrong about the lack of photogenic possabilities: see\nthe followup at “Daimonji Fire Festival Up Close and Personal: Yaron Silberberg\u2019s Photos from Last Year<\/a>”.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the Daimonji Festival in Kyoto, where big mountainside bonfires are lit in the evening. Normally I'm visiting my folks during the summer, so this was the first time in years for me to see it, and the first time since I became particularly interested in photography.<\/p>

It's not particularly photogenic, unless, I suppose, you could get up closer to the fires. (For a look at where the fires are lit, see \"Daimonji\u2019s Hidoko Fire Pits\")<\/p>

The snapshot above was done handheld with little forethought; with a bit more effort I'm sure I could have gotten something more worthy, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}