Nikon FM2 / Fuji Reala 100 [Expired 05/2005]
We had a jolly nice time on this day. We walked from our little flat on the edge of Higashiyama to the Kamo River and then onto Yasaka Shrine, Chion-In, Shoren-In Monzeki Temple, Kodai-Ji, Zenkojido Temple and Kiyumizu-Dera.
We walked back through some backstreets in a little district near Yazaka Shrine where I was taking pitchas on a camera that turned out to be broken..
Nikon FM2 / Kodak Portra 400
Hasselblad 500 C/M / Kodak Portra 400
Here’s an entire roll I took at Himeji Castle. A couple at the train station and the last picture was taken at Zenkōjidō Temple. Post here.
In the second pitcha you’ll notice a young lady whom I decided I wanted to be in the frame. I noticed her as she was wending her merry way down from the castle. I decided I would wait for her to come into the frame. Oh, I waited and I waited.
In order to get the attention of the lady in question I found it was necessary to gesticulate wildly and some would even say franticly towards her general whereabouts. An endeavour in which I believe I was truly successful. She looked squarely in my direction and at once gave me a look of the most ferocious intensity, a look that I captured forever on some kodak film at that very moment. Was it worth it? Not really.
You’ll just have to imagine the cherry blossoms.
Zenkōjidō Temple
Hasselblad / Kodak Portra 400
It was quite difficult to get any nice pitchas of the temples we visited on this day as it was a Sunday so lots of local people were out and about. The cherry blossom bloom was imminent too and the selfie stick-wielding tourist hoards had descended.