Temples and shrines- from different regions and different relisions.
Castles are different in Japan- ornate and beautiful rather than gothic and grungy. The one in Hiroshima is a faithful replica of its original, unfortunately destroyed. To make the shot more engaging I used some trees as a frame, bare winter branches lending themselves to black and white rather than colour. See part two here.
Looking back at the photo’s I took for yesterdays post, I noticed I had missed one. The featured temple boasts a maze of stone lanterns, spectacularly lit once a year for the Buddhist festival of Obon. I zoomed in tight on a small section to create the illusion of size, a pattern stretching through the […]
I previously featured a beautiful Buddhist temple near my hometown, lit up for the festival of obon with a twinkling canvas of stone lanterns Day 14- Welcoming the Dead. I thought it would be good to go back in the day time and photograph it in a new light. The sweeping angles and patterns, all […]
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