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The Golden Temple

There is a temple in the Old Town portion of Kyoto that is wrapped in Gold Leaf, and set on a small pond. It’s a lovely grounds, there is an entrance and a path that winds through, and you get to walk around and get a few different perspectives of the temple, then on through a nature park. The whole thing takes about an hour at normal pace.

This was our second trip to the temple, and it was definitely more crowded this time around. Afterwards, we walked down the hill on the main road, and stopped for a wonerful bowl of ramen, as you do.

Sony A7R IV | Sony FE 70-200 mm F2.8 GM II | 70.0 mm | f/2.8 | 1/640th | ISO160

Wat Arun Ratchavararam

I don’t remember exactly, but I’ve been to Bangkok around half a dozen times. We’ve done weekend trips, a few days of business combined with a few days of touring, we’ve stopped in Bangkok on our way to other places in Thailand, and our most recent stay was over the Christmas holiday 2019. This was the first time that we have travelled and actually hired a photo tour / photo guide – a company called Moments When. Interestingly, the business seemed much more geared toward people that wanted to have a photographer follow them around and take their picture in front of some of the most interesting (read : most instragrammable) places around Bangkok. We booked in for one evening walk, mostly through Chinatown that also highlighted some of the different foods of Bangkok, and the next day we booked in a “highlights” tour of some of the better known temples and sites around Bangkok. Both of our photo guides were actually pretty excited that we were photographers ourselves. At any rate, they were both great guides, and gave us some good photo tips along the way – I highly recommend them both.

On the second day tour, we ended our day at a rooftop bar / restaurant that was right on the river and this beatiful temple was directly on the other side. We had a few drinks, waited for the sun to go down, and I snapped this photo.

Sony A7R II | Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM | 73mm | f/2.8 | 1/20th | ISO320