This is a continuation of the article about my visit to the front yard of the Diet (North Garden), where I heard that the dogwoods were at their best.
The theme of the day was how to combine the dogwood with the clock tower in the north garden.
The problem is that the flowers have an unfriendly dead tree in the background (not that it is really dead, I suppose), but I can’t help it.
I thought it might be easier to deal with the background if I used a telephoto lens’ bokeh, so I switched to the HD DA55-300mm and took a few shots.
I had a hard time getting the vibrant flowers to compose well, and also had a hard time determining how much bokeh to make in the background, both in vain.
I took a few more pictures, using the telephoto to move closer to the flowers and back away from them, reflecting on the fact that the clock tower didn’t fit well.
A place where dogwood blossoms can be photographed in such volume may be rare.
Not only were the number of trees clustered together, but all the trees had grown so tall through history that some of them were so magnificent that I wanted to call them “giant trees”. This is indeed the garden of the National Diet.
Sorry for the boring array of photos of similar flowers. I was quite absorbed in taking pictures of dogwoods.
Finally, as a commemorative tourist photo (lol), here is a shot of the National Diet Building from the front.
The north garden I photographed this time is on the right side of the park, but I was told that the south garden extends to the left side as well, so I will visit there again sometime.
Thank you very much for taking the time to see it through to the end.
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