{"id":2308,"date":"2013-09-04T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-09-04\/2308"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:11:00","slug":"a-visit-to-the-jikkouin-temple-in-rural-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-09-04\/2308","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Jikkouin Temple in Rural Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWater Basin and Garden<\/span>\nat the Jikkouin Temple (\u5b9f\u5149\u9662), Kyoto Japan\n
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Following up from yesterday's\n“Tea and Sweets in Front of a Temple<\/span> Garden<\/a>”, where I'm trying to make a dent<\/span> in\nmy photo backlog from last autumn, today we take a look<\/span> at the setting for yesterday's post, the Jikkouin Temple (\u5b9f\u5149\u9662).<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The same water basin, but from a different<\/span> angle with the garden-viewing room in the background, represents this visit on last year's\n“A Long<\/span> But Photogenic November in Kyoto<\/a>” post.<\/p>\n\n

I'd visited with friends Damien and Paul while on a trip<\/span> to Ohara, a somewhat<\/span> remote mountain-village area of Kyoto. We'd just come<\/span> from the most-excellent Housen-in Temple (\u5b9d\u6cc9\u9662)<\/span> first introduced in\nthis post<\/a> (with colorful followups to its interior and garden\nhere<\/a>,\nhere<\/a>, and\nhere<\/a>). Considering the visual overload of that first stop, I guess<\/span> I can<\/span> understand having needed\na 10<\/span>-month breather to get to this second stop of the day.<\/p>\n\n

The weather was dynamic, alternating between a\nlight<\/span> rain and brilliant sunshine. Here's a\nsection<\/span> of the garden that you look at while having the\naforementioned tea and sweets, as a light<\/span> rain\nstarts...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>5 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nDrizzly<\/span>\n
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But five minutes later the sun is out in full force...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nGarden-Viewing Tea Room<\/span>\nwhere the photos in yesterday's post took place\n
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And before we move on from the tea and sweets, one more related shot, this time giving a stark<\/span> black & white treatment a try.<\/span>..<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/10, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTidying Up<\/span>\n
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I don't know whether it's any good, but it's different from my normal approach, so there we are.<\/p>\n\n

And speaking of something different, elsewhere in the garden-viewing\nroom is a xylophone<\/span> made from what appears to be rough-hewn stones....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 4500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nPlinking a Tune<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

I'm sure it was quite a feat to get the tones just right.<\/p>\n\n

Moving out now to the temple's back garden, it was blindingly bright with the now-blazing sun reflecting off every\nsurface left glistening by the rain. Just the same as in the other day's\n“The Effect of a Polarization<\/span> Filter on Wet Rocks<\/a>”.. a polarizer<\/span> filter\nmade a huge<\/span> difference as jiggling your mouse over this photos illustrates:<\/p>\n\n\n