PHOTO FINDS FROM 2023 #1

While I was learning how to use Affinity Photo 2 to process my recent Kyoto shots, I found a folder stuffed with pics I’d taken a year earlier and completely forgotten about. Mostly taken on a few day trips around Hiroshima, there were actually quite a few decent captures among them. Here are a selection…

An experiment in colour-swapping : a photo taken in an industrial area of the Hiroshima suburb Kaita.

The colours are real this time : another shot from industrial Japan (aka finding beauty in unlikely places)

The Hiroshima suburb of Kaita is a dump, but it can be a colourful dump full of surprising tones and angles.

This is Mitaki Temple, nestled in the hills north of Hiroshima, and a very atmospheric place.

More from Mitaki : the vermillion of the pagoda is glowing (and no, it’s natural, not faked…)

You can never have enough pagoda, so let’s zoom in on this vermillion beauty…

Blue and orange are just made for each other…

Some Buddhist deities from MItaki, still regularly tended.

Mitaki, Hiroshima.

A whole pantheon of deities at Mitaki.

For the next post, I’ll show some pictures from tourist-trip Miyajima, a small island near Hiroshima, where you can still find tranquility if you know where to look…