Shoren-in Temple is in eastern Kyoto and a nice garden and temple to boot. The temple allows you to view it from inside but also to take a path that travels the garden. Moss, azaleas and pond. It is a great gardens and place to visit and if you make it in the morning when the open it’s quite and enjoyable. So tranquil.
Taken with Fuji X-pro
Walking around the streets in Japan in the city or just in the suburbs you will notice lanterns at shrines or in the front of restaurants. They are almost all different and look great at night as the light up the night provoking you to come eat or drink there.
Taken on my X-pro1 with 23mm at 1.4 lens
I run a street photography group where we go out every once in awhile we go somewhere to shoot what we see. Carytown is a part of Richmond where there is shops and restaurants. Friday night it can get lively and that is when we went an hour before the sun set. Was a great time and I had a film and digital camera with me. I took a lot but some didn’t come out as it was also a time out with the girl. I had black and white film and so I shot in black in white with my digital to stay consistent.
Next four pictures were shot on a Konica Hexar with Fuji Acros 100 at 30mm.
Nice couple we met that owned a Pizza place else where in the city, I need to stop by there…
These guys posed after they had some Mellow Mushroom which is a pizza joint on Cary Street…0
The rest of the images were taken with Fuji X-Pro1 with the 35mm lens, please no sitting…
The World of Mirth is a wonderful toy gag store in Carytown. They have interesting things and fun this in there and you can try on about 25 different weird/funny hats…
These guys were making some Gyro’s and noticed us taken some pictures into there restaurant
Across the street is The Daily which is been pretty popular every time I go by when it’s opened!
Thanks for looking today.
So the weather that we had on our trip was really great. It rained once and that was when we were in Tokyo. Kamo River that cuts through Kyoto is a great sight on a nice night. Along Pontocho which has a lot of restaurants that are really nice and be quite expensive have there backs up to the Kamo river. they build these decks out of the river a little ways and adds a great atmosphere. We cooked our food in a large oil boil (veggies and meat) on one of these decks. It was splendid.
Taken with a fuji XPro1 35mm 1.4 Lens
Walking one evening while we were in Kyoto we manage to see a wonderful sunset which I didn’t get but the pink across the sky was visible for a good while. Walking in the Higashiyama hill area is a delight at this time in the early summer. There were no more crowds but the small stores were closing up. The old streets take you back and the setting sun cast shadows and lanterns turn on. Truly a great time for a walk.
Taken with Fuji XPro1 on 18-55mm lens
S Clinton Lewis 