Tag: photography
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The umbrellas of Kyoto.
A cold rainy umbrella day in Kyoto. A stay inside and eat chocolate muffins day. A double shot espresso day. But first, some pics.
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The bamboo mosh pit.
It’s Monday. A public holiday in Japan. The objective was to explore the bamboo forrest at Arashiyama before the anticipated crowds arrived. Narrator: unfortunately the crowds had a similar objective. And so it was. If you were to collect the people from every mosh pit at every concert in the world and bring them all…
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Koushouji Temple.
Randomly stumbled into the beautiful little village of Uji this morning, and then even more randomly walked up a path that led to Koshouji temple. It turns out that this is a pretty significant Zen temple, being the first Soto Zen monastery founded by Dogen Zenji in 1233. Not too touristy. A working temple. My…
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Kyoto at night.
Arrived at our Kyoto digs late in the afternoon. Out to walk the crowded (so many westerners!)streets. First objective: relocating a favourite vegan cafe. The writer Pico Iyer said this of Kyoto: “I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her…
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Enchantment.
Enchantment is small wonder magnified through meaning, fascination caught in the web of fable and memory. It relies on small doses of awe, almost homeopathic: those quiet traces of fascination that are found only when we look for them. It is the sense that we are joined together in one continuous thread of existence with…
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