Shoren-in Temple in Ektar

October 25, 2015 — Leave a comment

I brought some Ektar film with my on my trip and decided to do some shooting. This is nice temple with a great garden. Not to large but you can enjoy the garden from inside the temple and sit and relax. After you can take walk through the gardens and also around behind the gardens. Green all around from the moss and evergreens and maples.

Taken with Voigtlander Bessa R4M with 21mm Color Skopar lens Kodak Ektar

Ryojin no Ike pond which portrays the back of a dragon bathing in the pond…

Shin-den is the largest of the buildings with this front area large and full of rich moss…

Lovely and we made it to catch some of the azaleas bloom…

thanks for looking today…

Kaisando Hall at Tofuku-ji Temple

September 30, 2015 — Leave a comment

Kyoto has a wonderful temple complex with some amazing gardens, some old and some modern. Tofuku-ji Temple is a great stop. People come in groves to Fushimi-inari taisha with it’s 1,000 orange tori gates going up Fushimi mountain. You should stop right before or after that visit to Tofuku-ji which is only one stop away from the tori gates. This has a few buildings and great gardens as mentioned and this is Kaisando Hall where one side of the walk way has a stream and more wet garden before it slopes up to the forest. This side has a great area of gravel that is raked in a checkered pattern. It is quite great to look at and I needed a 21mm lens to take this picture and probably done better if I had the 15mm lens. We sat here for a while enjoying the serene seen.

Taken with Voigtlander Bessa R4M with 21mm f4 lens on Ilford FP5

Shoren-in in Monochrome

August 26, 2015 — Leave a comment

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

Azaleas of Spring

May 20, 2015

The best thing to look forward to after cherry blossoms is the Azaleas blooming and they stay around for quite aqhile. All the colors bloom at slight different times and gives the blooming a longer run. They were great this year, espceilay at Bryan Park in Richmond. They use to have a spectacular azalea garden but it has declined.

Taken with my Fujica AX-3 on Velvia 50 using my micro lens at f3.5

These light purple ones are right behind my house…

These were at a clients house and were large bushes with the morning sun just coming up…

Thanks for looking…

Cherry Blossoms Velvia

May 9, 2015

Blossoms were great this year, here are a few blossoms that I took my my Fujica AX-3 on Velvia 50 fujifilm. I wish there was more pink here in Richmond but most of them were white or slight pink. There is quite enough places to see blossoms in Richmond. These were taken at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Lakeside. The gardens had installed Cherry trees all around the pond which is new this year. They are not all that amazing but in a few years when they grow and become larger they will be great.

Some blossoms had fallen on the pond in the Japanese garden…

Thanks for looking.

S Clinton Lewis

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