A Peek at Not-Yet-Peak Autumn Colors in Japan, To Pique Your Interest

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 60mm — 1/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Middle of Nowhere

Patrick, Damien, and Valerie

in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

One reason that I don't blog so much these days is that when I do go out with the camera, the places I visit are so
overwhelmingly beautiful that I get choice paralysis in deciding what to work on, and what to write about. I start to work on one
set of photos, only to get drawn into a hundred side channels for things I want to share, and in the end I share nothing because
nothing finds its way all the way to a blog post.

So with the intent to fight agsinst that, I set out this morning to quickly scan the 714 photos I took during a recent outing
to some temples in Shiga Prefecture (an hour's drive from Kyoto), and quickly choose a few photos and blog them. What I had hoped
would take 30 minutes has, to this point, taken two hours.

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/50 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 —
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Comparing Camera Settings

at the Eigenji Temple (永源寺）

Part of the slowness comes from my desire to tie in today's photos with ones from the past. This helps make my blog a diary for my own consumption later in life, I guess, when my memory starts to.... what was I talking about?