A Cherry Blossom Shower for you. This is the best part of the blossoms, when they rain down like snow, and I was sure to get several shots of it this year. Go look at some of the others.
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It’s tough to find a more beautiful sight in Japan than the Cherry Blossoms raining down towards the end of their life every Spring. Called Sakura Fubuki (桜吹雪 — cherry blossom blizzard) this is one event that just about everyone looks forward to seeing.
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Shorty after the sakura come and go, it’s time for the wisteria (藤/fuji) to shine. I don’t know that much about these flowers, but they seem to come in white and purple, though purple is by far the more common, and also some are short and very full, while others are long and thin.
These guys are quick, darting around like hummingbirds. I’ve never seen any sitting still for more than a moment or two. I caught this one just as he was about to take off to the next branch. Continue Reading →
Lots and lots and lots of fallen petals. As you have seen from some of my other sakura photos, they don’t just settle for one or two cherry trees here in Japan, but scores of them — or more. As a result of this, when the blossoms start to fall a week or two after blooming, everything and everywhere is covered with pink and white petals.
From Iga River, from around the same place I took this one if memory serves, but facing in the opposite direction and on a different day. We only had a handful of days before the sakura all showered down, and I was there for each one.
This was around 5pm so the light was sinking. Given the way the trees cover the river, this created shadows everywhere, which made this really hard to take even using HDR. I’m not entirely happy with the result, but it does do a good job showing how awesome this river looked.
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Can it still be considered hanami (blossom viewing party) if you are by yourself? Either way, this guy seemed to be enjoying them. They were really showering down like crazy on the day I took this. Just look at the ground. Continue Reading →
This may not be the best photo in the world, but I really wanted to capture the falling sakura petals. In Japanese, it’s called Sakura Fubuki （桜吹雪）, which means Cherry Blossom Blizzard and it is incredibly beautiful to watch, especially when you are in an area with hundreds of trees — the entire sky turns white and it really does look like a blizzard.
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Another photo from Iga River, the river I discovered a week ago that is covered by sakura (cherry blossoms) for about 8kms (5 miles). Go see part 1. This time I took the photo from a little below the blossoms so you can see the tunnel effect they created.
There is a small local business off to the side that sells 10 yen manju, these are sweets filed with red bean paste. Good snacks. It was super busy there with huge lines — I bet they made good money this week. After buying a few of them, everyone would come out to eat them under the blossoms.
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