Yakumo's World
Mountain Temple (山のお寺)
Posted by GJC (Kyoto (京都), Japan) on 25 April 2009 in Landscape & Rural.
Thanks for the comments on yesterday's image. I was pleased everyone could see the communion between the built and natural environment that I was aiming at photographing.
Though there are many lovely old buildings in the Iwakura section of Kyoto, they are nevertheless torn down at a frightening pace. One of my very favorites -- a noble old home -- was recently destroyed and another lost its walled garden so that a slight curve in the road could be straightened. It really broke my heart.
But, like yesterday's, here is a place that tries to live in the environment rather than dominate, ignore or obliterate it. When a natural setting is as beautiful as this, it seems worth a little compromise.
Nikon D300
1/50 second
F/8.0
ISO 160
123 mm (35mm equiv.)