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.

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!

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?

Tiny but beautiful bloom

The photo has been originally uploaded by Yuichi Momma's photostream in flickr.


If I'm not mistaken, this is called Fude-Lindou (筆竜胆） in Japanese. Binomial name is Gentiana zollingeri Fawcett. It is an annual plant and one of species in Genus of Gentiana. The plant is distributed widely in Japan, Korean Peninsula, North-eastern part of China and Sakhalin in Russia. Hight of this plant is 10 to 15 cm at most, and diameter of flower is 1.5 to 2.0 cm. Flowering time is beginning of April to middle of April at the local area where I live.　 I found this flower by chance when I took a stroll in the park in my neighbourhood.

about Nirin-sou

The photo originally uploaded by Yuichi Momma's photostream in flickr

I'd like to tell you about Nirin-sou (or called wind-flower in English) in the botanical approach today.

This flower is called "Nirin-sou" in Japanese that is one of species in genus of Anemone. The scientific name is anemone flaccida.
As for the characteristic of this plant, two flowers bloom at the same time from one stem.　In other words, the most of this plant grows two flower stalks ( or scapes) from one stem as you can see in the image.

image on left : the place where Nirin-sou grows in colony.

image on right : up-closed image of Nirin-sou. Diameter of this flower is 2 cm at most, and it has five pieces of white sepals which look like petals. This plant has no petal that is another characteristic of this plant.

The flowering time will be end of March to beginning of April in the local area where I live.

Flowering of fairies

The image above has been originally shared by flickr photostream.

The picture was taken in a colony of Katakuri which means dogtooth violet. Several thousand flowers of dogtooth violet bloomed on a slope of hill. Flowering time of the dogtooth violet is nearly same time as cherry blossoms in the local area where I live. So we can enjoy both cherry blossom viewing and dogtooth violet at same time. Each flower of dogtooth violet seems like a small fairy.

sparkling bloom, Cornelian Cherries

sparkling bloom, Cornelian Cherries, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

This flower is called Sansyu-yu (山茱萸) in Japanese, and it is one of species of dogwood . The plant is a flowering tree, usually 5 feet to 20 feet tall as shown in below. Sansyu-yu is also one of flowers that blooms in early spring as same as Japanese plum blossoms.

in the shine of bright sunlight in early spring

in the shine of bright sunlight in early spring, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

It will soon be the Vernal Equinox Day.
Light of the sun has also increased warmth.
Mood to the spring increases in my mind.

buds

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buds, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

It was an impressive scene that the fluff of buds were shining with sunlight.
I felt from such scene like spring is just around the corner.

Crocuses bloomed

Crocuses bloomed, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

After the snow had melted, crocuses began to bloom all at once in my garden.