After a 3-hour ascent along a contemplative pilgrimage trail on Mount Kōya, I finally arrived at Kongōbu-ji, the head temple of one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan.
I paused to witness the monks performing their daily meditations, and listened to a sermon. A monk briefly paused in the gap of the door and was framed perfectly against the light with the aesthetically pleasing geometric composition of the carpet and lattice frame of the shoji filling the rest of the image. I kept the chairs in the image because I felt that it added visual balance to the image, and juxtaposed the monks standing outside vs the observer (me) sitting inside.
Captured on a Canon 5DMk3 with my trusty 50mm f1.8 lens.