This is the famous Fushimi Inari-taisha (sometimes known as just Fushimi Inari) shrine in Kyoto, Japan. Each gate at this shrine is the result of a donation by a company or individual, hoping for more good fortune with their money. There are tens of thousands of torii gates on the site of this sprawling complex.
This series of denser and shorter gates line the lower portions of the complex, which on the day we visited, were quite crowded. I was extremely lucky to catch this part of the complex without people, though I’ve seen other pictures of this place on 500px from this same area.
I’ve never struggled with a color profile conversion quite as much as this one, and I may well be returning to it to try to figure out how to best represent some of the saturated edges in the future. I also took photos all the way up to the top of Mount Inari, which in some ways led to more interesting interactions between shadows, light, and the never-ending gates. I will have more photos to post from here in the future.
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Sig Nordal 