Kiyomizu Stones

B&W, People, Landscape

A cemetery behind Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, caught in harsh sunlight and shadow as a man walked out from between the gravestones.

Michael Gakuran · Kiyomizu Temple, 2011

A cemetery behind Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, caught in harsh sunlight and shadow as a man walked out from between the gravestones.

Sometimes beautiful moments just create themselves. I was composing this shot of a cemetery behind Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto when all of a sudden a man walked out from between the gravestones. The rays of sunlight and harsh shadows cast already made for a neat black and white image, but the a human presence really pulled the other elements together.

Shot in camera on the E-P1 using the black and white filter.