Dreams of Miyako (都の夢想), 1

Posted by GJC (Kyoto (京都), Japan) on 9 September 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

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Comments (15)

jamesy from christchurch, New Zealand

beautiful I love the sunlight on the trees in the foreground

9 Sep 2008 7:23am

Mirko Herzner from Mühlheim am Main, Germany

You are back with your beautiful greens :-) Stunning! What's this building?

9 Sep 2008 10:13am

@Mirko Herzner: Thanks for your visit and the comment. The building is part of the Tenryuji Temple (天龍寺) complex in Kyoto's Arashiyama district. The temple is a UNESCO World Heritage site and you can read more about it here.

gbe from kansas city, United States

blue and green, beautiful

9 Sep 2008 11:14am

payam from tehran, Iran

WOW , so beautiful GJC , that lonely house hiding behind the trees , the light up there on the trees, the sky line , everything is beautiful really .

9 Sep 2008 11:27am

Monique from Koh Samui, Thailand

A really great composition ... the blue temple stands out beautiful against the hill in the background and the
colors are so vivid!

9 Sep 2008 1:05pm

hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong

Inspiring! Your composition and processing are so beautiful... what a wonderful capture!

9 Sep 2008 1:23pm

Fliss from Melbourne Beach, United States

One day I hope I can make it to Japan... this looks so serene...

9 Sep 2008 1:43pm

Laurie from New Jersey, United States

I love how the building is so nestled in among the green of the trees and beautiful landscape.

9 Sep 2008 3:52pm

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States

wonderfully composed w/ beautiful light! -- and it looks like Mirko agrees w/ me --- you do greens better than anyone else! so vivid! :)

9 Sep 2008 5:15pm

@dj.tigersprout: Thanks for visiting. In fact, my camera (not me) does green really well. Before I bought the Nikon d300 I rarely tried greens because my older camera (a wonderful Lumix) didn't do greens well, but did wonderful blues and purples. Anyway, now because of how well my Nikon does green I find myself trying them more than before. Anyway, I can't take any credit. It's just a good camera.

Howard F. from South Pasadena, Calif., United States

This is like a scene in a video game- a hidden castle waiting for your visit. Beautiful and crisp shot.

9 Sep 2008 6:26pm

Disoriented from Grinnell, IA, United States

Wow! Another beautiful shot! Are all these shots in the same area or different spots?

9 Sep 2008 10:03pm

@Disoriented: Thanks for your comment and for coming by the blog so often. My shots are mostly taken in the area near where I live, called Iwakura (岩倉). It is in the upper northern part of Kyoto. Yet of course I do get out and wander about other parts of the city, and this shot is from the far west.

signature103 from Hiroshima, Japan

Like old Chinese ink paintings. The humble house among nature.

Your question about the design - it is the standard photoblog (only one) for Wordpress. I actually hadn't (or can't) tweaked any of the design elements. So congratulate Wordpress, not me, for that. I prefer Wordpress's design to Aminus3 but I love the community nature of Am3. Wordpress is still a platform for text blogging not photoblogging.

9 Sep 2008 11:40pm