This year, the air cooled a little at the end of March, which delayed the blooming of the cherry trees in Tokyo. However, the temperature rose dramatically around the time the blossoms were about to fall, and the prnot ogress of the blooming season has been very irregular. It is as if the gas pedal was suddenly turned after the brake had been stepped on, and the plants must be having a hard time.
Also Hanamizuki(dogowood) season has been started early and fell eary this year. So I could not take special time to take pictures.
However, they are planted as a street tree in many places in Tokyo. So I had some chances to take photyos while I was out running errands as long as I have my camera with me. One day, I was able to snap a few pictures of this year’s Hanamizuki with my Fujifilm XF10, which I carried in my bag while shopping.
As far as I have observed, I rarely see the “light red” ones that Sigh Isseo sang about, and they are usually white flowers. The blossoms are white and neat, but the whole tree is in full bloom, and they brighten up the streets and parks that have become a bit lonely after the cherry blossoms have fallen. It is nice to look at them from afar and say, “Oh, they are blooming” and feel your heart beat with excitement.
What appears to be white petals are actually leaves called bracts; each of the grains in the middle of the four white bracts is a true flower.
If you look at it with those eyes, you can indeed see the little flowers blooming.
Now, I found a Yaezakura, double-flowered cherry tree that was blooming beautifully at the same time as these dogwoods, so I’ll just upload one last picture. The point of interest is the Yae-Sakura blooming in a building district with an aircraft crossing overhead.
The XF10 can shoot in RAW, so I shot in RAW and finished with a lot of help from PhotoLab7. Taking snapshots of flowers with a condenser digital camera is a different kind of fun and difficult than with a single-lens reflex camera.
