Paul Barr in Kyoto Day 1: the Tenjuan Temple (Fall Colors and a Wigglegram)

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Pondside Stone Lantern

at the Tenjuan Temple (天授庵), Kyoto Japan
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Paul Barr, in town this week, and I made a visit yesterday to the Tenjuan
Temple (天授庵) within the Nanzen Temple complex. It was my second visit inside, my first visit here having been three years ago. Earlier this year, though, I did feature the main gate of this shrine covered in snow.

Anyway, the fall colors this year in Kyoto seem a bit subdued, but it
wasn't crowded yesterday and overall was really pleasant. We ended up sitting and enjoying more than
taking photos.

友達ポールさんは来日して、一緒に天授庵行って、もみじを撮影しました。今年は色は薄い方ですが、雰囲気はなかなか良かった。よく落ち着いて、リラックス出来ました。

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Garden Entrance

天授庵、庭園の入り口








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Paul Snapping a Snapshot for Someone

the moment we entered this lady asked Paul to take a picture for her

知らない人に撮影をお願いされました









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Rock Garden

with fairly subdued colors

天授庵の岩石庭園
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Selfie








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Rich Moss








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Too HDRish

ハイダイナミックレンジをし過ぎ

With the dark shadows under the overhang, and bright sunlight in the
background, the scene wasn't an appropriate one to try to get everything
in, but I did a
three-burst exposure-bracket sequence. Even though it was handheld,
Lightroom's HDR-merge could handle it perfectly. However, the result was
little changed from the middle source image, but with the added latitude
I could then perform “single-frame HDR” to get a result that
includes detail in both dark and bright areas, but the result just feels
fake.

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Entrance to the Back Garden

裏の庭園の出入り口

I can't believe it's been three years since I made “Elegance in Kyoto’s Tenjyuan Garden” at this spot, one of my first wigglegrams.
It feels like it was just last year.

I made a similar wigglegram yesterday, being lucky enough to come across two ladies willing to pose:

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Animatable Wigglegram (14 frames) — slowly sweep mouse from side to side to view 3D effect
写真の上をマウスで左右にゆっくり動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。

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It's been a while since I took a wigglegram, and it shows in how unsmooth my movement was, but my auto-align software
was able to recover some sense of smoothness.

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Me

making the wigglegram

私です。ポールさんが撮って下さった写真

photo by Paul Barr











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Subtle and Relaxed

seems to be the theme this year

ほのかな雰囲気、今年
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Carp

魚さん








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Window

窓








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Path








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Tenjuan's Pond

天授庵の小池








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Bamboo and Moss

竹と苔
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Bamboo and Moss and Pinecones

竹と苔と松ぼっくり
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Stepping Stones

踏み石

Even though I was right there in real life, the photo above gives me no sense for the size of the stones,
so when going through my photos, this next image sort of surprised me...

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With People

for scale











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Thick Trunk

heavy with the weight of moss









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Simple
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Tiny Stone Bridge

短い石の橋








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Reflection

反射








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Tickling a Carp's Nose

鯉さんの鼻をくすぐる








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Birdhouse?

巣箱かな？
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The crowds were not oppressive, so it was thoroughly enjoyable to be lazy, take our time,
stop often to chat, etc. “Pleasant” was the theme of the day.

And speaking of “pleasant”, we capped off the day with chicken and suds at Uroko
(which I had been to just the other day with Carlin)...

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Cheers!

乾杯！、「鱗」で