Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged architecture, asia, gate, Hiroshima, Japan, Miyajima, oriental, pagoda, shinto, temple, traditional, Zen on August 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mission to Miyajima : 1st April 2012
I went out to Miyajima, a World Heritage Site just a stone’s throw from Hiroshima city, back in April, with the idea of imagining I was visiting it for the first time and trying to see it with a fresh pair of eyes. Here are some of the results…
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged architecture, Buddhism, Hiroshima, Japan, Miyajima, orange, oriental, pagoda, tower on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Orange Pagoda” : Miyajima, Japan, 22nd January 2011
These five-storied structures can be found all over Japan, but this one on the holy island of Miyajima, just a short ferry ride from Hiroshima, is one of the brightest and most cheerful-looking.
This striking shade also goes particularly nicely with a pale blue winter sky.
You can see a larger version of this photo here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged fireworks, Hiroshima, Miyajima, night sky, photo, photography on August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Well, taking photos of fireworks is not very original, but I’d never really tried it before tonight, and it’s always good to learn something new, to try a completely different style of photography.
Things didn’t go strictly according to plan, however: the Miyajima fireworks festival attracts crowds of 300,000, so I thought it would be good if I set up near a friend’s house a little way away from the main event to avoid the masses.
I hadn’t quite reckoned on just how far away I was, though, so I found myself zooming all the way in on a not very sharp lens, then having to crop later too, so overall quality is not the best.
Still, it was fun to do…
Here’s another shot:
Both of these pictures look way better when viewed at a larger size here and here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged bridge, copper, Japan, Miyajima, photo, photography on June 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Late afternoon always makes for the best colours, and so it was on this day last December when I visited the island of Miyajima, near Hiroshima.
Behind the Itsukushima shrine I found this old wooden bridge as I was preparing to leave, and marvelled at the amber shades offsetting the pale blue winter sky.
Incidentally, Japan has wonderfully dry winters, with many blue sky days, making for fine photographic conditions. This contrasts with the appalling rainy season and summer we are now in, with high humidity and temperatures, almost every day swaddled in low grey cloud diffusing the light and reducing all colour to a uniform drabness. Time to escape to Europe!
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged Buddhism, Buddhist, D7000, Hiroshima, Japan, Japanese, Miyajima, Nikon, pagoda, photo, photography, temple, Zen on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A typically sunny December day in Japan, and a trip out to Miyajima, a popular island near Hiroshima, to shoot the vestiges of the country’s past with the Nikon D7000.
Here we see the base of a five-storey pagoda in the foreground, its gaudy orange paint-work contrasting nicely with the more restrained temple building in the background.
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged 18-200, architecture, Bologna, D7000, desaturation, image, Italy, Miyajima, monochrome, Nikon, orange, photo, photography, tower, travel, vertigo on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another experiment in selective colour desaturation. Here, the magnificent warm tones of Bologna’s architecture are enhanced be reducing the surroundings to monochrome.
I took this shot from a 100m tall leaning medieval tower, poking the NIkon D7000 beyond the insubstantial railings and battling incredible vertigo. Sometimes we must suffer for our art…
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged 18-200, architecture, D7000, Hiroshima, image, Japan, Miyajima, Nikon, photo, photography, shinto, shrine, travel, veranda, woodwork on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A detail from one of wooden walkways at Itsukushima Shrine on the Japanese island of Miyajima, near Hiroshima. Orange is a traditional colour for these Shinto structures. This was taken last winter, shortly after the acquisition of my Nikon D7000 and 18-200mm zoom.
A larger version of this picture can viewed here at my dedicated website and store, Andy Lightfoot Photography.
