This sculpture

had a strange attraction for people. While I was sitting there, at least three kids jumped inside it, and one grown man.

And this concludes the Japan section of the pictures. Of course in the three months or so that it took me to post all of these, I've taken pictures of less exotic places. I'll put them up eventually.

Tokyo UFO

Tokyo 4

Tokyo 3

I was quite happy with how this one turned out.

Tokyo 2

I'm not sure why I like this one, but I've decided to inflict, ahem, I mean share it with you anyway.

Tokyo 1

Honen-in

As I recall, this temple was dark and it was raining. Also this old man was sitting in front of this old dark building. And spoke to me in a voice like a frog. I think he was some tour guide that hated his job. He scared the everloving Jesus out of me.

Sannenzaka 6 or some such number that I don't remember

There's been some questions

About the colors. See my camera has a couple settings one's for scenery, which I've found makes everything bluer. So the picture up top's on "normal" and the one below it is on the "scenery" setting. I'm not sure which one I prefer, and I'm curious which one you prefer.

Also, as an aside, what do you think about the manipulation, through filter or digital means, or otherwise, of images. Sometimes it strikes me as cheating, although I know many photographers and artists use it often.

Kyoto

Shoren-in 5

This is probably the picture I was happiest with out of all 150 something of em.

Shoren-in 4

Shoren=in 3

Shoren-in 2

Shoren-in

Chion-in

Sannenzaka 4

Sannenzaka 3

Sannenzaka 2

Sannenzaka 1