Fushimi Inari shrine at night with diagonal light, Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Gates of Prosperity

Fushimi Inari was near the top of our list, along with everyone else’s, and that’s the problem with a lot of Japan: the best places are popular in exact proportion to how good they are. I normally get around that by turning up absurdly early. Here I’d read that the thing to do was go at night.

At street level it was still busy — the gates start behind the shrine buildings and then snake up the hillside — but the crowd thinned as we climbed. The higher we went the more of it we had to ourselves, until I could finally shoot a long run of gates with no gape-jawed tourists in the frame. Just me, gape-jawed behind the camera.

Nikon D850 · Nikkor 16-35mm · 32mm · f/4 · 30 sec · ISO 64

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