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 Exposure time: 1/60s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 After a restful night's sleep, I encounter breakfast (which was much cheaper at 1000yen) and to my relief, I could tell what I was eating for the most part :) and it was good! |
 Exposure time: 1/320s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Good moring Kyoto! They ryokan people saw fit to point out to me that the temple you cannot see behind the trees in this picture is where they filmed the staircase scene from the last samurai... again... |
 Exposure time: 1/100s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 My first temple of the day... this is actually a gate. Interestingly enough, temple gates in japan are kinda like time warps or holes in the space time continum |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Cause on one side of the gate you have this... |
 Exposure time: 1/125s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 and on the other side you see this... |
 Exposure time: 1/80s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 No, you don't drink from here... you use the water to rinse your hands and your mouth if you so please to purify yourself before you enter the sacred grounds... (some of my more unwitting american aquaintances have been drinking from these) |
 Exposure time: 1/250s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 We have arrived at the temple! Time to spend money on omikuji (fortunes) that I can't read, but my general fortune is pretty good as is my romance fortune (haha I'll believe that when I see it!) If you get a bad one, tie it to something at the temple to dampen the bad luck |
 Exposure time: 1/400s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Relaxing gardens... too bad I'm on a schedule today... and it's the hottest day in Kyoto all year ;; |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Shrubbery! |
 Exposure time: 1/250s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Nature is not complete in Japan without a vending machine... |
 Exposure time: 1/100s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Quaint little town they have here... |
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 Exposure time: 1/200s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Tea gardens that you order tea and relax at... |
 Exposure time: 1/200s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Hrm... remember what I said about the stair mentality? |
 Exposure time: 1/320s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Big bell... I hear they arrest crazy gaijin that go up and try to ring it. |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Giant Budda! and my very own inscense stick... all for 300 yen... what a steal. |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 The buddha looms ominously... I'm halfway up a moutain now... all via stairs |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 I put my inscense down... Being jet lagged has it's advantages, I'm one of the few people who have made it here today. |
 Exposure time: 1/200s Aperture: 7.0 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 14.6mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Ok let's climb our way to my most frequented temple in all of Japan, Kyomisudera! (I think I've been here more times than I can count) |
 Exposure time: 1/320s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Aaahh natsukashi... the entrance |
 Exposure time: 1/500s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Center-weighted averaging Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 It's really pretty out here... 95% up the mountain :) |
 Exposure time: 1/800s Aperture: 4.3 Metering mode: Center-weighted averaging Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 And you see that in the distance? that's where I walked from :P |
 Exposure time: 1/125s Aperture: 4.8 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 17.4mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 Here's the part where people try to drink water that comes out of one of the 3 spouts... it's what Kyomisudera is famous for (Kyomisudera means Pure water temple) One of the spouts gives long life, one gives good fortune, and one gives good luck in love... But for love, you go to the temple of love and matchmaking next door :) |
 Exposure time: 1/640s Aperture: 2.6 Metering mode: Evaluative Focal length: 5.8mm Camera make: CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model: EX-Z40 I love omamori(protetive good luck charms)... there is one for everything. I think the disaster once is useful :) |