{"id":20538,"date":"2019-06-13T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=20538"},"modified":"2019-06-12T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:27:25","slug":"houses-and-gardens-of-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/houses-and-gardens-of-kyoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Houses and Gardens of Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KfaWcE target=_new rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A1rjV7UmFeL-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A1rjV7UmFeL-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A1rjV7UmFeL-248x250.jpg 248w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/A1rjV7UmFeL-768x773.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>@aniklasson @TuttleBooks<\/p>\n<p><I><a href=https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KfaWcE target=_new rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houses and Gardens of Kyoto<\/a><\/I> is a coffee table book with more than just gorgeous photos. The descriptions, history, and details provided next to the photos are excellent as well. While there is little to complain about, I do like to point out areas for improvement in even the finest books I review.<\/p>\n<p>First, I would have enjoyed larger photos, even if that meant reducing the total number of photos. The full page photographs are lovely, but many of the postcard or (even worse) stamp-sized photos are simply too little to be much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I liked how the photographer (Akihiko &#8220;Alan&#8221; Seki) edited the images, straightening the distortions that photography creates when architecture is captured. He didn&#8217;t overdo things. The photos look natural and not HDRed (perhaps because this was published before the HDR era). However, (and most people who aren&#8217;t photographers won&#8217;t even notice this but) there are some blown highlights that didn&#8217;t have to happen and the occasional indoor flash usage is not nearly as nice looking as the naturally lit interiors.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great book, especially if you have been to Kyoto or are going at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if there are any authors out there who need a photographer to do a similar book (especially in Japan!) hit me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@aniklasson @TuttleBooks Houses and Gardens of Kyoto is a coffee table book with more than just gorgeous photos. The descriptions, history, and details provided next to the photos are excellent as well. While there is little to complain about, I do like to point out areas for improvement in even the finest books I review. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44,86,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20544,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20538\/revisions\/20544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}