YABURAN

The flower which I saw on a walking yesterday morning. That is called Liriope muscari. The common name of this plant in English exists several names like big blue lilyturf, monkey grass, border grass or lilyturf. In Japanese, it is called "Yaburan" that means "bush-orchid".

A sign of spring

A sign of spring

Plum blossoms began to bloom. Spring seems to be one step closer.

Taiwan Cherry in bloom

I saw the beautiful Taiwan Cherry that was in bloom just in front of gate of a Buddhist temple. It was now best time to see. This scenery is one of the pride of our city.　That's why we recommend there as a sightseeing spot.　There is also a shop for souvenirs in the precincts of this temple.

Larch in autumn colour

Fallen leaves

I've stopped walking for a while and I've seen so beautiful fallen leaves.

an overblown wintersweet

The wintersweet has already been past their peak when I  visited the wintersweet garden. However, flowers were still giving off a sweet fragrance. 

a plant called skunkvine

The name of this plant isn't lovely, but flowers are quite pretty.

A sparrow on a rope

A sparrow seems to walk on a tightrope, but no danger at all....
It has flown away soon after the shutter released.

Flowering of a midwinter camellia

This is the first picture to be shared with you in the year of 2015. I would like to say Happy New Year to everyone who visits here to see the picture.

 

the flower which name is unknown

I saw white flowers on a riverbank when I took a stroll.
It was very small flower and those were bloomed in crowded onto a twig as shown in the image above.
Diameter of each flower seemed to be less than 1 inch.
It is supposed to be one of species in Asteraceae family, but I have no confidence that it is.

the end of summer

An overblown sunflower is a sign that the summer is coming to the end.

The beautiful shape of nature, Japanese Beech

If you try to touch with your ear to the bark of Japanese beech in a quiet grove, you might hear the flow of faint water flowing in the trunk of a tree. If you have a chance to visit a forest of japanese beech, try to do that!

The picture was taken at the forest of Bijin-Bayashi (美人林） in Tohkamachi city, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. on Aug. 6th.

Hemerocallis fulva or daylily, 忘憂草

It is said that flowering period of this plant is one day almost. If so, fortunately, I was able to catch the best timing of flowering.
The name of Daylily comes from flower that lasts a day only.
忘憂草（Wàng yōu cǎo) is Chinese name of this plant, and it is romantic name.
By the way, I remember one song 忘憂草 composed by Ms Keiko Utoku, who is japanese singer and songwriter, and sung by 周華健(Wakin Chau)

lotus from ancient times

Some seeds of lotus of 1400-3000 years ago were excavated from the digging place for public facilities construction site of Gyoda city in Saitama prefecture.
Further, those seeds were found to have germinated naturally in a puddle of the construction site after rain. Therefore, the city government of Gyoda decided to promote the park as a natural habitat of ancient lotus. And the park was opened about 14 years ago. Nowaday, there are four or five lotus ponds and we can enjoy to look the lotus flower of 120,000 roots in 42 different types of lotus from the end of June to the beginning of August.

Silent prayer

I pray for the repose of the soul of all passengers and crew of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17.

return to normal photography

I've told about the functions of color popping and multiple exposure previously. Those features give us various fun of photography.

If you could use those functions occasionally, we will feel freshness on those pictures, and same time, it helps you to diversify to your photography. However, I think the photography without eccentricity is the basics to the last.

So, this is an image with basic and normal photography. But, a instructor pointed out that a petal in the lower left is unnecessary. So, It is to say that normal shooting is to also be careful.

A magic in the cloud

This colour popped image have run into a reality in the cloud actually.
Of course, latest version of Digital SLC has a function of colour popping like Fujifilm X-T1 and Panasonic DMC-GX7.
However, I used a free shared software in the cloud to process the image above.
There are many magical things in the cloud that scattered in the world of cyberspace.
Probably, I think everyone knows about the cloud computing nowadays.
In the cloud computing, we are able to enjoy various kind of shared services including database information, data storage space, applications software and computing resources.
Even if there is no such function in your PC and camera, you do not have a mind to feel regret. Let's try an Internet search, you will be able to find a variety of services in the cloud immediately.
But be careful! You have to install latest version of an antivirus software in your PC before doing.

By the way, following is the original image.

Dancing hibiscus, petals look like fluttered hem of dresses

The petals in this picture look like fluttered hem of ballerinas' dresses which turn round and round in a Vienna waltz.

Please try to look at this picture while listening to Vienna waltz.

I'm happy if you could have an illusion that the red dresses in this picture go around and round and round!

slightly out of focus

When I took a stroll on a bank of river, a gorgeous swallowtail crossed in my front and perched on a thistle.

I was impatient to take photos of the swallowtail which was moving continuously and hurriedly.

But, I couldn't set quickly aperture and focus, because I was using an old manual lens at that time. As a result, the swallowtail became out of focus. And it was flying away soon after I've taken only this picture.