The sunflowers of Happiness!

Be happy forever!

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.

the luxuriance of an aquatic plant, Pickerel weed

After typhoon has gone away, it is really hot and humid today from this morning. It is now 87  degree Fahrenheit and 73% of humidity at 10:30 a.m. in the area where I live.
According to the latest weather forecast, today's maximum temperature will rise up to 93 degree Fahrenheit, this is the first time record in this summer.
Therefore, I'd like to share an image which seems to be cool.
Be careful about heat stroke!

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 pleasure of photography, multiple exposure

Photography includes various pleasure.
One pleasure of photography is color popping which has been introduced by previous photo shared with you yesterday.
I'd like to talk about multiple exposure that is another fun of photography.
Today, most of all cameras have a multiple exposure function.
However, there are not many people who use this function practically.
The point of this interesting feature is that you have to think about the contents of the picture to be combined.  In other words, you must imagine before taking of photo what type of effect and result you want.
But,  contrary to your expectation,  you will find unexpected effect on your picture. That is fun of the multiple exposure.
I hope you try it!

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.

a hibiscus which bloomed in my front yard

I've used EOS7D after a long time. I was fed up with the size and the weight of EOS7D with macro lens.

After all, a mirrorless SLC is the best for me, because of its light weight and compact size. That's why, I'm addicted to Fujifilm X-T1 and X-E1 thoroughly.

My favorite place

This is an approach to the old Buddhist temple existing from 12th century. This place is surrounded by cedar grove and has an appearance which is mysterious and profound.

However, this place turns into a gorgeous atmosphere only in the season when the flowering of hydrangea.

This is the one of my favorite places.

I visit there from time to time and take pictures. Some of pictures have been uploaded in my photostream since I started flickr in 2009. Among those pictures, this is the best, I think.

the plant called tiger's tail, but it looks like ponytail.

This is a plant of the primula family called Lysimachia clethroides and common name in English is gooseneck loosestrife.
In Japan, this is called Oka-torano-o which means land tiger's tail if it is translated literally.
It is said that the name "Oka-torano-o" originated from the shape looking like tiger's tail. But I do not agree to this opinion, because, it does not look like the tail of the tiger at all. If anything, it looks like the tail of pony. Why don't we just call it ponytail?