Kamakura

So this first picture is from a couple of weeks ago.  Lion played against some other team (I forget their name).  A couple of the Tokyo Gaijin came to watch and we took a photo.

A few weekends ago I went to Kamakura for the second or third time.  It's the first time I've been there with the new camera, and I took a boatload of photographs.

The first one is of a lantern.  Again.  They're everywhere so I have pictures of them all over the place.

There was a shrine where you wash money, to bring you more money of course.  All the shrines for money are about getting more - none of them require you to do something with your money, never any investment advice or banking.  Just making more money.  Quite dull really.

I'm pretty sure I took this picture before.  Then again, there were way more kites there this time than before. They were everywhere.  Didn't see any children snatched away though.

I went pretty heavy on the black and white because there's a lot of stonework and you can see more of the details in black and white.  At least, I think you can.

I definitely took pictures of this guy before - the pictures you see all around the web are pretty much the same as this one.  It's really difficult to find a new angle on something that is kept in an enclosed space.

If you search for it, this picture will come up a thousand times.

And this one a million times.

As such, I took this picture JUST to try and get something new.

It's hydrangrea time at the moment.  How do you spell that?  Well, they're everywhere anyway.

This angry guy was at the money washing shrine.  You walk around the corner of the shrine and he's just sitting there in the bushes.

This is the actual area where you wash the money.  It's in a cave with that opening in the back.

What is this flower?

One of the kites from before.

Another shrine, buried somewhere in the mountains around Kamakura.  There are a million shrines and temples around the area - they call it the Kyoto of the East.  Or of Tokyo.  Or of somewhere that isn't Kyoto basically.