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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.

Begin March 3rd
  The first photo is an amazing plum blossom. The 2nd two shots are different colored Hamamelis spp. flowers.
Mar03_JindaijiPlumGarden09RC.jpg
Mar03_JindaijiPlumGarden09RC
JindaiGardenMar_16RC.jpg
JindaiGardenMar_16RC
Mar03_JindaijiHamamelis02RC.jpg
Mar03_JindaijiHamamelis02RC

  The first shot in this row is another plum blossom and - amazingly - the next 2 shots are very early Cherry Blossoms.
Mar03_JindaijiPlumGarden10RC.jpg
Mar03_JindaijiPlumGarden10RC
JindaiGardenMar_33RC.jpg
JindaiGardenMar_33RC
Mar03_JindaijiEarlyCherry02RC.jpg
Mar03_JindaijiEarlyCherry02RC

  The only shot in this row is a water lily in the inside garden at Jindai Botanical Garden.
JindaiGardenMar_37RC.jpg
JindaiGardenMar_37RC
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.
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum02HazeReductionRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum02
HazeReductionRC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum06a_BESTRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum06a
_BESTRC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum08RC.jpg
Mar04_Hinatawada
Plum08RC

  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.
YoshinoBaigo07aRC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo07aRC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum11aRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum11aRC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum13aRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum13aRC

  You cannot say that these are all the same.
YoshinoBaigo10RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo10RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum22RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum22RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum25_BESTRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum25_BESTRC

  The first shot is me and the 2nd shot is Kazuya.
YoshinoBaigo22RC.jpg
Yoshino
Baigo22RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum_Kazuya33RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum_
Kazuya33RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum32RC.jpg
Mar04_Hinatawada
Plum32RC

  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.
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum34RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum34RC
YoshinoBaigo30RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo30RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum36RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum36RC

  Three additional shots.
YoshinoBaigo31RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo31RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum42a_BESTRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum42a_BESTRC
YoshinoBaigo36RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo36RC

  In the first 2 shots you can see a bridge across a small creek in the middle distance.
YoshinoBaigo40RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo40RC
YoshinoBaigo42RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo42RC
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum51RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaPlum51RC

  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.
YoshinoBaigo55RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo55RC
YoshinoBaigo54RC.jpg
YoshinoBaigo54RC
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple01FixedRC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple01FixedRC

  The first shot is the same temple as in Row 11. The 2nd shot is a different Temple.
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple04RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple04RC
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple06RC.jpg
Mar04_HinatawadaTemple06RC
End March 4th, End Page 1
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