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posted: March 30th, 2007 |
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This page covers March 3rd and 4th only. On March 3rd Kazuya and I went to Jindai Botanical Garden and on March 4th we went out to Hinatawada and took pictures of plum blossoms. At Hinatawada there is a famous plum garden. This is the 3rd year consecutively that we have gone there, but the first time we've caught it with some good flowers. FINALLY! Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin March 3rd |
The first photo is an amazing plum blossom. The 2nd two shots are different colored Hamamelis spp. flowers.
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The first shot in this row is another plum blossom and - amazingly - the next 2 shots are very early Cherry Blossoms.
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The only shot in this row is a water lily in the inside garden at Jindai Botanical Garden.
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| End March 3rd, Begin March 4th |
The rest of this page is at Hinatawada. These 3 shots are looking across the valley rather early in the morning. All of them are kind of hazy, even though we have attempted to fix them.
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Three more shots - you may say "they're all the same", but no, they are not - the zoom factor is different, the angle is slightly different and the sun angle is different.
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You cannot say that these are all the same.
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The first shot is me and the 2nd shot is Kazuya.
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The first shot is a close-up of a bud which is just opening, the 2nd shot is a foreground flower in focus and the background out of focus. The 3rd shot is a long shot, and as you may notice, the haze is now disappearing.
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Three additional shots.
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In the first 2 shots you can see a bridge across a small creek in the middle distance.
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A Temple near the plum garden, looking through the plum blossoms at the roof. You may notice that the 3rd shot is labeled "....Fixed.." - I removed the electrical wires with PhotoShop.
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The first shot is the same temple as in Row 11. The 2nd shot is a different Temple.
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| End March 4th, End Page 1 |
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