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Flowers After the Rain and the Sun Floating on Lake Biwa

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I went out to take pictures of flowers and other things over the three days of last week, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday^^

Lennon (OM-1) + Hugma (AI Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8S)

The wound of losing Nadeshiko hasn't healed yet, but I'm currently using Lennon for portraits and macro photography. It's able to take pictures without any issues at all, and the troublesome part is that, other than the mental aspect, I don't really have any trouble even without Nadeshiko lol


First, Wednesday. After the rain stopped, I headed to the Kitayama Botanical Garden in search of a theme for early spring: witch hazel.

Oh, it's blooming, it's blooming♪


I wonder what this is. A mysterious structure.

Each flower has four long, thin, tentacle-like petals, and about four of them are gathered together to form it.


This witch hazel is called Chinese witch hazel, and it's characterized by the fact that the previous year's leaves remain even during the blooming season.

That clears the second theme. I'll take pictures of it again if I find it blooming, though.


Next up, the fairy of early spring: Coptis quinquefolia.

I love the yellow spoons; they are so cute. It's healing^^ I've made it a point to go take pictures of this flower every year since I learned of its existence.


The last one for this day was the Adonis amurensis.

Adonis amurensis is a flower that blooms on sunny days, so this is about as good as it gets for today. This is also one of the theme flowers. I'll go somewhere else to take pictures of ones that are more open. It was a short time from the afternoon on, but I enjoyed it^^


And then Saturday. I came to Lake Biwa to take pictures of the sunrise, but it's kind of cloudy^^;

The color of the sky feels a bit uncertain. Today might be a bust. Well, if that's the case, I'll just take pictures of the lakeside scenery. This is probably a pier for personal watercraft. There's a boat hauled up on land over there, so let's go check it out. While I was switching gears and taking various shots, I suddenly looked out across the lake...


The sun was out.

Whoa, the morning sun is coming out from between the mountains on the opposite shore and the thick clouds! ^^; I was caught off guard.
I hurried back to the car to get my telephoto lens, and the photo used as the header is what I took as I turned back around. I was a little too late, haha. I didn't even have time to change the settings, so it ended up looking a bit noisy ^^; After this, I went home once to take care of some errands and then went out again, but since this has gotten long, I'll split it into two parts.


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