Kyoto in Winter

Kyoto in Winter
link to a Web photo album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/KyotoInWinter?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ-v5u7dxJaaKQ&feat=directlink

Otherwise grey and gloomy, covered with snow, Kyoto in Winter is beautiful, magical, mysterious!

Photos from this album were taken on 31st of December 2010 and on 1st of January 2011.

Second Autumn in Kyoto TWO

Second Autumn in Kyoto (second album)
link to a Web photo album :
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/SecondAutumnInKyotoTWO?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ6b4ZyT__enKg&feat=directlink

I was too busy in November and December (the best time for autumn leaves in Kyoto) to go to as many places as I wished and take pictures...It's a great pity, but I was really busy with preparing and submitting graduate applications for PhD programs at US universities...Still, I managed to steal a few hours and take some photos (not as many as I wished and I couldn't even come close to fulfilling my large list of temples to visit during autumn foliage season)...This is the second album of my Second Autumn in Kyoto...

Kyoto in Summer

With very much delay and two seasons later here is a link to an album with pictures from the 2010 Summer in Kyoto
link to the Web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/SummerInKyoto02?authkey=Gv1sRgCNzO1srkwNOe2wE&feat=directlink

Second Autumn in Kyoto

There is a season missing actually, as I still haven't uploaded the Summer in Kyoto album, but first this one as it's ready...

Second Autumn in Kyoto
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/SecondAutumnInKyoto?authkey=Gv1sRgCN-e-PLCs7TERQ&feat=directlink

Photo Album: Takano River in Autumn

Takano river is just 2 minutes frommy apartment, and is my favourite place for a walk...With my terribly busy schedule lately I'm missing the Autumn season here, this time because despite my plan to visit many places and see them in their Autumn look, I'm afraid I cannot spare much time as I'm busy sending applications for PhD programs in USA (and UK actually, though the chances are that evenif I'm accepted there they have no sufficient funding)...
Actually I have absolutely no time to post...
Here are my photos...

Takano River in Autumn
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/TakanoRiverInAutumn?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrbvZHE55LwTQ&feat=directlink

Kyoto in Spring 2

It has again been months since my last post. A season has changed actually and it is Summer now. I've been meaning to post and give a link to a second Spring in Kyoto album with photos, but I have failed to do so until now. I am meanwhile compiling and uploading a Summer in Kyoto album which hopefully I will post not after months but sooner, although frankly I haven't done much visiting of temples and taking pictures for the past 3 or so months...I had plans to visit (and re-visit) gardens and temples but I didn't make it happen...The weather has been horrid actually, first a rainy season in July, followed by stiffling heat in August...I completely failed to see the gardens with the July blooming hydrangea, wisteria and irises. I meant to, even planned it, but for many reasons failed to make it happen...So unfortunatelly part of the seasonal beauty of Kyoto in Summer has not been "documented" in pictures... 

So until I compile the album of the current season (i.e. Summer), meanwhile here is a link to a somewhat belated Spring in Kyoto continued web album...
Again the photos are taken with my mobile phone's camera (I'm doing more or less the same pictures with my film camera of course, and one day they may also see the light in a future photo exhibition perhaps...), so the image quality is not good and the limitations of the very simple camera of the phone (no zoom or anything actually...) are not giving much more than an idea...
But that's what these photos are meant as really, ideas, feelings, angles as I see them...
Hopefully they can still carry a bit of the feeling I have of Kyoto.

So here is the link:
Spring in Kyoto 2

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/d.karmapolice/SpringInKyoto2?authkey=Gv1sRgCOru1aT4iu3xlQE&feat=directlink#

As always comments and feedback are most welcome...

Kyoto in Spring

It has been almost 5 months since my last post here...
I have been really discouraged to post which is the main reason for not maintaining this blog and for personal reasons I was unable to write or share in this rather anonymous way that in effect lacks any feedback...The lack of feedback in my life lately has been too much anyway to add the additional lack of feedback here, hence my long silence...

I made a web album with some spring scenery here in Kyoto, that hopefully is a good opportunity to break the silence...

(As with the previous Kyoto in Autumn web album, the photos in this one are made with my mobile phone camera, hence quality of images is poor, but hopefully my "angle" of seeing of things can still be felt even despite image quality deficiencies...)



Here is the link:
Spring in Kyoto
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/d.karmapolice/SpringInKyoto?authkey=Gv1sRgCMbh3ezJkorBtAE#

At the end of March I moved-in into a new place, a one-room apartment, very close to Demachiyanagi station 9i.e. very conveniently close to Kyoto University where my classes are...) which I picked, apart from it being convenient, for its great location and beautiful view...
It took me the whole of January of apartment seeking and incredible nervous exhaustion to find this place and the moving itself was incredibly exhausting experience, but a full month into this new place I must say it was worth it...

Here is the link to a web album with photos of my room and the view and the nearby area...
A Room With a Viewhttp://picasaweb.google.co.uk/d.karmapolice/ARoomWithAView?authkey=Gv1sRgCOHi6avD1vnQlAE#



Hm, hopefully someone will leave a comment...some sort of feedback...

Autumn in Kyoto - photos

I selected some photos which I took for the past month (i.e. November) in Kyoto, and also in the nearby Ohara and Nara during a few one day excursions. They are mostly of Buddhist temples and temple gardens, but there are also some of Shinto shrines, or of some places or images in Kyoto that impressed me.

Here is the link to the web album with the photos I selected.

Even though the quality of those photos is really not good (they were taken with my mobile phone), it is the only way I can share with you digital images of what I'm seeing...Meanwhile I'm of course also taking photos with my camera, but since I use film, it will take a while before I develop the films and make prints and can be able to show you some "real" pictures...Meanwhile this is, in the present circumstances, what I can show you...although with no great image quality (in fact it is really not good), I hope some of the feeling and some of my way of seeing things can be felt even through these images...

the album link again, just in case...
http://picasaweb.google.com/d.karmapolice/KyotoInAutumn?authkey=Gv1sRgCP6hhu7S1eOdZA#

P.S. I'm getting really very discouraged by the lack of feedback...it is pointless to share without any reaction...

Kyoto in Autumn