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Travel

The Golden Pavilion or Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺, as it’s known to the locals, was a major highlight of last weeks trip to Kyoto.

Once again i tried my hand at a few HDR images, both with different levels of aggressiveness applied, here’s one reasonably subtle.

Golden Pavilion

The 3 images i used to combine into one using photomatix were.

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Geisha Girls

April 7, 2009 · 15 comments

Spotted while walking up to Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto were these 2 Geisha, the one on the left doesn’t look too happy with me …  but you get that on the big jobs.

Geisha Girls

Unfortunately there were masses of people around and this was the one and only picture i was able to get.

Be sure to check out it out a bigger size or two on flickr.

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Miyajima HDR Images

April 6, 2009 · 19 comments

Last week i had the folks in town, i took the week off work and we went to Hiroshima and Kyoto … a great time was had by all.

Despite it being a bit cold at times i was able to get out and about heaps and take a lot of photos.

Here’s my first attempt at some HDR images which i think turned out pretty well.

5 Story Pegoda

This 5 story Pegoda was an impressive site, looking over Miyajima Island.

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