Spire detail of a five-storey pagoda at Kohfukuji Temple
My best photo of last week: a moody graphic of birds hanging about a pagoda spite. I like the vibe created by the detail on the pagoda spire, the bird silhouettes in front of the brooding clouds. It’s a clean and simple image of one pagoda spire and how nature interacts with it.
I took this with my pretty old Panasonic Lumix FZ35, which has an 18x optical zoom, so it shows what cannot be accomplished as easily with a mobile phone. In fact, I probably would have missed all this detail on the spire of the pagoda itself, if I wasn’t using my camera’s zoom feature as binoculars. :P
This is what we see from far, just to give you a context:
Five storey pagoda at Kohfukuji Temple, Nara Deer Park, Kyoto, Japan
Roxy the Traveling Dog
Very nice.
weliveinaflat
Thank you :)
Jessica @ Life with Duke
How pretty, thanks for sharing!
weliveinaflat
Glad you liked it! :)
Teepee12
Thanks for sharing that :-) I do all myh traveling virtually these days and I alway wanted to see the East.
weliveinaflat
Glad you enjoyed it ;) More to come.
completelydisappear
Oh, powerful zooming indeed. By the way, I couldn’t find the MBPOTW week 16th post so I didn’t join it. I don’t know why I couldn’t find the URL thought. Anyway, glad to see the post for 17th week. :D
weliveinaflat
Could be I published it rather late that day as I struggled with blogging on my Galaxy note :P and also it didn’t follow the regular format. No worries you may join or not join whenever you like ;)
FireBonnet
OMG! That’s the same camera I have. And I’ve done the same thing! Seen detail I had no idea was there as I looked though my zoom. I love the lacy detail on that spire.
weliveinaflat
Amazing how I just assume everyone, except me, has a DSLR nowadays, haha! But that’s a good camera to have, although I do miss the old Canon model I lost (I always lose my electronics equipment when I travel!!) The old canon one had a flip out viewer that can be twisted around so one can see even if the camera is high above the head or low on the ground.