When I went back to Kamakura this year, there were very few people visiting this shrine, which made the whole area feel more intimate and secluded, and I wanted to capture this special mood on the camera. Photography is all about understanding the light, and the composition. The latter has much to do with perspective and the angle from which one takes a photo. Sometimes small adjustments can dramatically change the story one wants to tell. My aim was to create a photograph that would eliminate anything that was modern, including the tourists. When I was retouching this photo in Photoshop, I even removed the lightning conductor wires that ran along the sides of the roofs. I wanted to create an image that would make the passing of time irrelevant,
There is something ethereal and magical about the architecture of the wooden Japanese temples, especially the Zen temples, which are far less decorative than the Shinto shrines, although when I first saw the Kencho-ji (建長寺) temple in Kamakura, it had the same impact on me as the Nikko Tosho-gu (日光東照宮) temple complex. I knew I will be coming back there a few times. When I went back to Kamakura this year, there were very few people visiting this shrine, which made the whole area feel more intimate and secluded, and I wanted to capture this special mood on the camera. Photography is all about understanding the light, and the composition. The latter has much to do with perspective and the angle from which one takes a photo. Sometimes small adjustments can dramatically change the story one wants to tell. My aim was to create a photograph that would eliminate anything that was modern, including the tourists. When I was retouching this photo in Photoshop, I even removed the lightning conductor wires that ran along the sides of the roofs. I wanted to create an image that would make the passing of time irrelevant, Buy a print of this photo at my store on Fine Art America.
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