Plant / Animal

Plant / Animal

Lumix S5 Trial shooting with cherry blossom

This year is extraordinarily severe, that is. Pollen allergy. If you go out on a day with high amounts of pollen, it can be terrible, ...
Garden/Museum

Ikegami Plum Garden

It was mid-February, so I went to the Ikegami Plum Garden in Ota Ward to check on the blooming of the plum trees. The weather was mild...
History/Temple/Landmark

Peony garden,with a prime lens

So I visited the Botan-en (Peony garden) of Ueno Tosgu shrine to take winter peony pictures with a prime lens "smc FA31mm Limited". I ...
Suburban

After 2 years Kyoto, Gioji & Sagano

This is Gioji Temple is famous for being the setting of the "Let's go to Kyoto" Japan Rail tourism campaign in the fall of 1994 and th...
Plant / Animal

Mimosa pudica

In Japan, mimosa refers to Acacia dealbata and other plants in the family Fabaceae, but this is actually a misnomer that has been wron...
History/Temple/Landmark

Red spider lily again

Just a little out of season due to the order of publication, but here is the second installment this year of my "red spider lily walk....
Garden/Museum

Red spider lily in the rain

Even though I had gone to the trouble of location scouting in advance, this season's "red spider lily walk" started at Tama Central Pa...