{"id":2508,"date":"2015-01-02T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-01-02\/2508"},"modified":"2015-01-02T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:37:08","slug":"more-from-that-big-new-years-day-snow-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-01-02\/2508","title":{"rendered":"More From That Big New-Year’s-Day Snow in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>4 sec, f<\/span>\/10, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSnowy Heian Shrine<\/span>\nKyoto Japan\n\u5e73\u5b89\u795e\u5bae\u3001\u4eac\u90fd\u5e02\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

As I mentioned Yesterday, New Year's Day brought Kyoto's biggest snow in 60ish\nyears<\/a>. I went out<\/span> for a bit<\/span> in the evening to snap some pics and\nplay with Anthony.<\/p>\n\n

It was really coming down...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Compare that shot to the lead shot on this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

The snow just stuck to whatever it first touched, and accumulated in improbable amounts on the most insubstantial\nof surfaces....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

The moment I walked outside I knew that the expressway (whose nearest entrance is more than 6km away) was closed,\nbecause when it closes, traffic ends up bogged down on my street...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>30 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nExpressway Refugees<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 31mm — 0.6 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNot Much Traffic Here<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 31mm — 0.6 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBut Lots of Snow Play<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 31mm — 0.6 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBus Stop<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 0.5 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSeating Available<\/span>\nKyoto Prefectural Library, Okazaki\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 32mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>8 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nClearing the Slide<\/span>\nas a matter of public service, of course \ud83d\ude09\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 45mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>6 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFestival<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Earlier in the day, when there wasn't a flake<\/span> of snow, I took lots<\/span> of\npictures with the intent to write about the new-year's crowds. This whole\nare was packed with folks making their first shrine visit of the new year. At the time<\/span>, the road was closed to vehicles and was lined with food vendors. Now the vendors<\/span> have battened down the hatches until tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 0.8 sec, f<\/span>\/13, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEntrance Gate<\/span>\nHeian Shrine\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 40mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>15 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nLame Impersonation<\/span>\nof this shot<\/a> when he was four\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>4 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSplats in Waiting<\/span>\non a side building\nThe slumping snow on the roof made me think of\n“<\/span>When You Tempt Fate, Sometimes You Lose<\/a>”<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>20 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMain Building<\/span>\nHeian Shrine\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Then it was time for more snow play with Anthony...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>6 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 2500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMoving Target<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

By the time I put the camera aside to play, my hands were so frozen that I couldn't<\/span> feel\nthem other than by proxy through the pain. At the shrine<\/span> it had gotten to where I couldn't<\/span>\ntell whether I had<\/span> pressed the shutter button or anything... I had lost<\/span> any sense of touch in\nmy right hand, so I was<\/span> taking shots with my left. I hadn't<\/span> been that cold since I was<\/span> a kid.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

When I started to play with Anthony, my right hand hurt so much I just<\/span> couldn't do it, so\nI shoved<\/span> it under my armpit for five minutes to warm it, with that exquisitely painful<\/i>\npain one gets when an over-cold finger or toe is warming. Wow, it really really hurt.<\/p>\n\n

But oddly, after that I was fine for the rest of the night. We threw<\/span> snowballs and such for well over an hour and they didn't feel so much as\nchilly again. Odd.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 35mm — 0.5 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 28mm — 4 sec, f<\/span>\/18, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 36mm — 10 sec, f<\/span>\/11, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCanal<\/span>\nlooking a bit like cherry blossoms, the snow here reminds me of this<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 45mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>13 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nImpromptu Elevator Selfie<\/span>\nwith both camera and self slightly snow encrusted\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I'd mentioned at the end of yesterday's post<\/a> that\nthe forecast was for more snow overnight and that I might<\/span> try to get up to photograph in the morning.\nNeither happened. I was so<\/span> tired (from the snowball play, I suppose<\/span>) that I slept<\/span> until 10:30am! It turns<\/span> out no new snow fell anyway.<\/p>\n\n

This evening (it's 11:30pm as I write<\/span> this) the snow is coming down hard again, and it looks to be more\nthan yesterday. Probably I'll head out tonight even for a bit<\/span> after posting this, lest I have<\/span> to wait\nanother 58 years for a similar<\/span> chance...<\/p>\n\n

Update<\/b>: it turns out I had to wait only one day for a bigger snow<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned Yesterday, New Year's Day brought Kyoto's biggest snow in 60ish years. I went out for a bit in the evening to snap some pics and play with Anthony.<\/p>

It was really coming down...<\/p>

Compare that shot to the lead shot on this post.<\/p>

The snow just stuck to whatever it first touched, and accumulated in improbable amounts on the most insubstantial of surfaces....<\/p>

The moment I walked outside I knew that the expressway (whose nearest entrance is more than 6km away) was closed, because when it closes, traffic ends up bogged down on my street...<\/p>

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