Kyoto by night 2 (夜の京都: 2)

After 10 years in Japan I am about to leave and head back to Australia. So here is my last pic posted from Japan. I will keep posting from Aus, so check back in in a few weeks! I took this the other night while wandering around Kyoto.
明日から日本を出て、オーストラリアへ帰る。１０年間も日本に住んでた。これは日本からの最後の写真になる。今度はオーストラリアからこのブロッグを続けるのでまた見てね。

Kyoto Peeping (覗きー京都)

Kyoto by night (京都の夜景)

Night Fun #4 (夜撮影#4)

Night Fun #3 (夜撮影#3)

Open air cinema along the Ota River.
太田川での外の上映。

Night Fun #2 (夜撮影#2)

Night Fun (夜の撮影)

I went out to try a few new ideas on Sunday night. I'll post some of them over the next few days. Here's the first one.
日曜日の夜、やってみたかった撮り方があったから撮りに行った。

Long Exposure (長時間露出)

Well I had been wanting to try and get some good night shots for a while, so when I was back in Perth last year I decided to head up to Kings Park overlooking the city and have a fiddle with some long exposure shots. I hadn't really tried before so it took a bit of experimenting, but it really wasn't that hard to get a decent shot with a tripod. This shot seems to be one of the more popular photos on my website (http://www.giphsub.smugmug.com/) I quite like the result and definitely want to try and do some more long exposure photography.
去年パースに帰った時に、この写真を撮った。長時間露出の写真を撮ろうと思っていたので、キングズパークに行き撮ってみた。この写真が撮れた。実はそんなに難しくはない、三脚さえあれば。僕のウェブサイトで(http://www.giphsub.smugmug.com/ )この写真は結構人気があるみたい。

Castles

One of the cool things about being in a country like Japan, having grown up in Australia, is that they have castles everywhere which are centuries old. My favourite castle has to be Himeji Castle. I have spent hours wandering around the grounds and inside the buildings. This pic, however, is Hiroshima Castle. It was actually obliterated in the atomic bombing, but they rebuilt it. It's only a small castle, but it is quite pretty when lit up at night