Today, we went to Takasaki, the largest city in Gunma Prefecture. Here is a set of unprocessed, out-of-camera photos from our first stop, Shōrinzan Darumaji. It is here at this temple, several hundred years ago, that the first Daruma dolls were made.
Bottom of the stairs
Outside the Main Hall
Daruma dolls
Daruma dolls, Daruma votive plaques and sunlight lens artifacts
Working from home today, and stepped by Jōraku-in (常楽院), a local temple, during my lunchtime walk. A nice place to wind down for a few minutes, and re-charge for the afternoon meetings and tasks 😌
I had this friend who liked to take photos of windows, doors, etc and call them ‘portals’. We used to send each other these kind of photos and invite each other to imagine the worlds through these portals. While I’ve lost touch with that friend, I often think of her when I take these photos.
‘Finished’ editing my Thailand 🇹🇭 photos! Well, finished the first batch. Will return to them again after I get home. Really pleased with the images I was able to get and excited to start sharing them!
Here’s the Giant Reclining Buddha at Wat Phra That Doi Kham.
When I’m out taking photos, I love finding things I can line up and create with. So when I saw that there was a full moon still up in the early mornings at the Old City in Chiangmai, I went looking for things to create. It was interesting cause I’d see things from the street and think I could find the right angle. Not always true. So, finding this shot was it’s own reward.
I love finding these details on my photo walks. I may crop in a bit to get rid of the blown out sky but for now, here’s the first edit. Really enjoying the new features Lightroom Classic has in its latest releases that let me edit specific colors. Before I’d be using the color mixer and couldn’t be as precise as I’d like to be. Now I can be, if I choose to. I probably won’t on all my photos but I do want to get a feeling for these new tools and see where they fit in my workflow.
... quite the opposite, quoting Dr. #TempleGrandin, another autism expert, in my understanding*
What it really comes down to, is this: we should focus much more on bottom-up learning than the classic top-down learning that typifies education. In practice, this indeed comes down to what #Temple promotes so hard these days: ‘exposure‘. Expose children to many and above all different experiences."
Last day in Chiangmai. While I’m gonna miss these sites, I’ll be fine with my walks not ending with me being a dripping mess. Looking forward to Cambodia!
A few more India photos from our last trip. This is the Ganesha Mandir just off of Connaught Place. I love the colours of the temple and how they contrast with the concrete.
The intriguing village of Temple, the main base of the Knights Templar in Scotland until the order was dissolved following the arrest of many of its members by King Philip IV of France on Friday 13 October 1307, 716 years ago today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/temple/temple/index.html
Einer der wohl schoensten Tempel, den ich jemals besuchen durfte. Ok, eigentlich ist es ein Schrein & zwar der des "ewigen Fruehlings" im Taroko National Park, Ost-Taiwan.
Moin #Mastodon und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Dienstag. Macht was draus 🙏.