Serenity

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A photograph of Kinkaku-ji (the Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto, Japan, taken across a calm pond. The golden three-story temple is partially framed by Japanese pine trees in the foreground, with dense forested hills behind it under a pale, overcast sky. Rocks line the near shore of the pond.

50mm, 1/250, F 1/8.0, ISO 200

Kinkaku-ji on an overcast day — no dramatic light, no perfect reflection, just the pavilion standing quietly among the pines the way it has for centuries. The grey sky actually works here, (at least, I feel so), softening everything into the kind of stillness that’s hard to find and harder to hold onto. Serenity doesn’t always look golden. Sometimes it looks exactly like this.