{"id":2390,"date":"2014-02-19T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390"},"modified":"2014-02-19T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:31:57","slug":"huge-main-gate-of-kyotos-chionin-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390","title":{"rendered":"Huge Main Gate of Kyoto&#8217;s Chion&#8217;in Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"033079\" href='\/i\/JF4_033079.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_033079_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Prayer in Passing Main gate of the Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662), Kyoto Japan May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033079\"\ntitle=\"Prayer in Passing Main gate of the Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662), Kyoto Japan May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 29mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_033079.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_033079.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Prayer in Passing<\/span>\n<br\/>Main gate of the Chion'in Temple <span class='nobr'>(\u77e5\u6069\u9662),<\/span> Kyoto Japan\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>May 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_033079.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-05-30'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Prayer in Passing Main gate of the Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662), Kyoto Japan May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I'd started to write up a blog post about the\n<a href='\/blog\/2014-03-07\/2396'>once-in-every-hundred-years roof repair<\/a> currently going on at the <a\nhref='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chion-in'>Chion'in Temple<\/a> down the\nstreet from me, and intended to note in that article that the temple is\nperhaps best known for its big main gate, when <span class='nobr'>I\nrealized<\/span> that the big main gate has never appeared on my blog. <span\nclass='nobr'>I'm not sure<\/span> how that's happened, but I'll rectify that\nnow with photos that <span class='nobr'>I happen<\/span> to have lying\naround in my Lightroom catalog.<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\nspan.camnote { font-size:90%; color: aqua }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"033057\" href='\/i\/JF4_033057.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_033057_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"517\"\nalt=\"Checking Email May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033057\"\ntitle=\"Checking Email May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 50mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_033057.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_033057.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Checking Email<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>May 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_033057.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-05-30'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Checking Email May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The gate doesn't look all that big in the photos above, but believe me, it <i>is<\/i> all that big:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic wide' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"040515\" href='\/i\/JF4_040515.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_040515_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Sense of Scale Oct 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i040515\"\ntitle=\"Sense of Scale Oct 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 1800 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_040515.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_040515.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Sense of Scale<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>Oct 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_040515.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-10-18'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Sense of Scale Oct 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic tight' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/DSC00011_sm.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Earliest Shot I Could Find Jan 2006 &amp;middot; still frame from a Sony DCR-PC101 video camera 3-year-old Anthony with former-neighbor-in-California Brian Preetz -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2006 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"ism\"\nitemprop=\"image\"\ntitle=\"Earliest Shot I Could Find Jan 2006 &amp;middot; still frame from a Sony DCR-PC101 video camera 3-year-old Anthony with former-neighbor-in-California Brian Preetz -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2006 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">DCR-PC101 @ 3mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5.6 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FDSC00011_sm.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/DSC00011_sm.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Earliest Shot <span class='nobr'>I Could<\/span> Find<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'> Jan 2006 &middot; still frame from <span class='nobr'>a Sony<\/span> DCR-PC101 video camera<\/span>\n<br\/>3-year-old Anthony with former-neighbor-in-California Brian Preetz\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/DSC00011_sm.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2006-01-09'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Earliest Shot I Could Find Jan 2006 &amp;middot; still frame from a Sony DCR-PC101 video camera 3-year-old Anthony with former-neighbor-in-California Brian Preetz -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Copyright 2006 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The shot above came just a few days after my point-n-shoot had broken\nand been sent for repair, and I'd decided to <a\nhref='\/blog\/2006-01-04\/125'>move up to my first dSLR<\/a>\nbut had not yet received it. <span class='nobr'>So I was<\/span> shooting stills with <span class='nobr'>a circa<\/span>-2002\nvideo camera. Ugh.<\/p>\n\n<p>I ended up receiving the dSLR I'd ordered (<span class='nobr'>a Nikon<\/span> D200) <a href='\/blog\/2006-01-10\/130'>the next day<\/a>.\nMy <a href='\/blog\/2006-01-20\/135'>initial results<\/a> with it were better than with the video camera, of course, but it took\n<span class='nobr'>a while<\/span> before <span class='nobr'>I grew<\/span> into it. Anyway, here's <span class='nobr'>a shot<\/span> of Chion'in's gate with that Nikon D200 after I'd had <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of years' experience under my belt:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"049178\" href='\/i\/JEF_049178.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_049178_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Shot with a Tripod March 2008 &amp;middot; Nikon D200 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i049178\"\ntitle=\"Shot with a Tripod March 2008 &amp;middot; Nikon D200 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 at an effective 33mm &mdash; 20 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_049178.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_049178.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Shot with <span class='nobr'>a Tripod<\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>March 2008 &middot; Nikon D200<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JEF_049178.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2008-03-20'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Shot with a Tripod March 2008 &amp;middot; Nikon D200 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The gate can be quite pretty at night, but one needs <span class='nobr'>a tripod<\/span> to shoot it properly, and I'm generally too lazy. <span class='nobr'>I did head<\/span> out with <span class='nobr'>a tripod<\/span> six years ago for\n<span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><a class='pt' href='\/blog\/2008-03-21\/771'>Kyoto Higashiyama \u201cHanatoro\u201d Lightup Event<\/a><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> and on the way apparently took\nthe shot above.<\/p>\n\n<p>Several years ago the road leading up to the temple was redone with nice lighting, and for this <span class='nobr'>a tripod<\/span> is <span class='nobr'>a must,<\/span> but again, <span class='nobr'>I'm too lazy<\/span>,\nbut since I'm not too bad at\n<a href='\/blog\/2009-01-15\/1114'>holding steady for <span class='nobr'>a longish<\/span> exposure<\/a>, <span class='nobr'>I sometimes<\/span> give it <span class='nobr'>a shot<\/span> if I'm walking by at night and happen to have\nthe camera. Here's one such handheld attempt:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"033042\" href='\/i\/JF4_033042.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_033042_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"455\"\nalt=\", f\/2.8, ISO 6400 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data &amp;mdash; nearby photos Road to Chion'in May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033042\"\ntitle=\", f\/2.8, ISO 6400 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data &amp;mdash; nearby photos Road to Chion'in May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 35mm &mdash; <span class='wow'><sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>8 sec handheld<\/span>, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_033042.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_033042.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Road to Chion'in<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>May 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_033042.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-05-30'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\", f\/2.8, ISO 6400 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data &amp;mdash; nearby photos Road to Chion'in May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I'd also tried to photograph the nicely-lit path the day <span class='nobr'>I got<\/span> that D4, and the following photo appeared on\nmy blog in <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span><a class='pt' href='\/blog\/2012-07-27\/2057#000087'>Took My New Nikon D4 Out For <span class='nobr'>A Spin<\/span> At Night (Before Reading The Manual)<\/a><span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"000087\" href='\/blog\/2012-07-27\/2057'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_000087_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Path To The Chion'in Temple July 2012 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 long exposure while propping the camera on a short light post -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i000087\"\ntitle=\"Path To The Chion'in Temple long exposure while propping the camera on a short light post  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>4 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 12800 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_000087.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_000087.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Path To The Chion'in Temple<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>July 2012 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<br\/>long exposure while propping the camera on <span class='nobr'>a short<\/span> light post\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Path To The Chion'in Temple July 2012 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 long exposure while propping the camera on a short light post -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The gate wasn't lit up at the time, so it's almost imperceptible in the background shadows, but technically this does count as\nan appearance on my blog so <span class='nobr'>I guess<\/span> today's post is not really its first appearance.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"042900\" href='\/i\/JF4_042900.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_042900_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"More Scale Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i042900\"\ntitle=\"More Scale Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 360 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_042900.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_042900.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>More Scale<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>Nov 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_042900.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-11-12'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"More Scale Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic tight' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"042024\" href='\/i\/JF4_042024.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_042024_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Ambiance-Destructing Commercialism Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390 -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i042024\"\ntitle=\"Ambiance-Destructing Commercialism Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 36mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>80 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3600 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_042024.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_042024.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Ambiance-Destructing Commercialism<\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>Nov 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_042024.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-11-02'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Ambiance-Destructing Commercialism Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390 -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>One evening last fall I came across the beautiful scene in front of the\ngate marred by <span class='nobr'>a marketing<\/span> display by <a\nhref='http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/'>Tesla Motors<\/a>. This was particularly\ndisappointing because <span class='nobr'>I own<\/span> stock in the company, but <span class='nobr'>I suppose<\/span> the temple\nhas to make money somehow to pay for the <a href='\/blog\/2014-03-07\/2396'>every-100-years roof repair<\/a>. (<span class='nobr'>I\ndon't<\/span> know who owns the land here, separated from the temple by <span class='nobr'>a public<\/span>\nstreet, but <span class='nobr'>I assume<\/span> it's the temple.) <span class='nobr'>A few<\/span> days later the scene was\nrepeated with BMW, so <span class='nobr'>I guess<\/span> there's some comfort in knowing it wasn't\njust Tesla.<\/p>\n\n<p>And while on the subject of Tesla Motors, they weren't sold yet in Japan at the time so it was my first time\nto actually see one, and the in-dash navigation system was positively pornographic in excess:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"042025\" href='\/i\/JF4_042025.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_042025_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Nav Screen Bigger Than a Child at 24, it's bigger than my screens at home Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390 -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\nid=\"i042025\"\ntitle=\"Nav Screen Bigger Than a Child at 24, it's bigger than my screens at home Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 66mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1100 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_042025.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_042025.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Nav Screen Bigger Than <span class='nobr'>a Child<\/span><\/span>\n<br\/>at 24\", it's bigger than my screens at home\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>Nov 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_042025.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-11-02'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Nav Screen Bigger Than a Child at 24, it's bigger than my screens at home Nov 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-02-19\/2390 -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http:\/\/regex.info\/ when used online)\"\/><\/div>\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"033073\" href='\/i\/JF4_033073.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_033073_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"445\"\nalt=\"May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033073\"\ntitle=\"May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 50mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>50 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_033073.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_033073.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='camnote'>May 2013 &middot; Nikon D4<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_033073.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2013-05-30'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"May 2013 &amp;middot; Nikon D4 -- Chion'in Temple (\u77e5\u6069\u9662) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Anyway, now that I've gotten Chion'in's gate out of the way, <span\nclass='nobr'>I can go<\/span> ahead and write the blog post about the main\nbuilding's roof repair.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2014-03-07\/2396'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'd started to write up a blog post about the once-in-every-hundred-years roof repair currently going on at the Chion'in Temple down the street from me, and intended to note in that article that the temple is perhaps best known for its big main gate, when I realized that the big main gate has never appeared on my blog. I'm not sure how that's happened, but I'll rectify that now with photos that I happen to have lying around in my Lightroom catalog.<\/p> <p>The gate doesn't look all that big in the photos above, but believe me, it is all that [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}