Serendipitous Surprise: Running Into My Own Photography in Kyoto Station

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1 sec, f/4, ISO 100 —image data
Japanese Candle
A Photo I Took in 2012

I got a surprise today while walking in the underground arcade north out of Kyoto Station, when I noticed on the wall some photographsthat I took eight years ago.

iPhone 7+ — 1/40 sec, f/1.8, ISO 20 —map & image data — nearby photos
Today in Kyoto Station
Newspaper Article from 2013 on Display
The Article
by Alice Gordenker

I did the photography for Alice's article as a fun project, as described in two blog posts at the time,“Japanese Candles”and“Japanese Candles, Followup”.

The article is still on the Japan Times web site, here,and originally looked like this:

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/4 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 —image data

The two candle photos bookmarking this post are the originals for those used in the article.

I was in the area to renew my driver's license, which went quite smoothly, so that's taken care of for the next five years.

Done and Dusted for Another Five Years(yes, I photoshopped all important data to be different from reality)

I used to blog six days a week — this will be my 2,635th post — but I've been taking a break for a while, so I hope I canremember how to make this post. If you're reading this, I remembered.