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 […]
Temples in Japan are strewn with effigies of Buddha, often lined in a orderly queue wearing a matching red hat and bib. I have featured this in a blog post once before (ok, maybe twice). Perhaps a third Buddha is a bit excessive. I just find the vivid reds in combination with distressed and weather […]
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