Category: Bonne journée

There are no new photos in this challenge. All the photos were taken in France, where I used to live.

In the beginning of period I lived there, I didn’t see any squirrels around my place. Some of my co-workers told me that there were plenty of squirrels just next to me even when I was at urban area. It was a challenging and strange message to me. I didn’t see any of them at all. Perhaps, I didn’t have good eyes?

A year later, I was walking in the woods, and suddenly a squirrel appeared in front of me. It was not the acorn season, so it must have been busy collecting food. After this sudden encounter, I started seeing squirrels almost every day. There were a lot of squirrels in the immediate vicinity.

Lens-Artists Challenge #306: Habitat

Then, I knew that it was the day when I became a part of that town. I got my own habitat.

Boring?
Well, the photo above is not interesting. It is a traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and a very low table. The reed blinds on the window might be interesting to some people. Some people might think that a cool breeze is blowing through them. But that was not my intention. What I wanted to capture was behind the reed blinds. The contrast of the roof tiles, the tropical plants and the shadows in the room made the room look cooler.

Lens-Artists Challenge #304: Behind

I know the next photo needs no explanation. Hydrangea is a rainy season plant, and it looks more beautiful in the shade. The temple behind the flower should have been more blurred. I actually took some blurry photos. But in the end, the blurry photos were just photos of flowers.

Finally, I would like to show my failure of paying attention the background. I wanted to take a picture of a bollard with a background of a bay and a bridge. Pan focus would be better but the focus should on a bollard. I didn’t find any concern. However, I realized my simple mistake. There was no bay water between me and the bridge on the picture.

The waters of the bay beyond the town were still and calm. Hydrangeas there had begun blooming without notice. I strolled through the back garden of an old temple. The Kannon statue with its floral carvings was beautiful, but I preferred to look at nature instead.
Colors were somehow missing. Though fresh greens and faint pinks showed its contrast, that was not a key of scenery. Its soft and gentle shape rather made a good contrast against humid wind from the sea.

Lens-Artists Challenge #301: Floral

As I walked into town, I saw silky bindweed in bloom, but no one paid it any attention. The place where the flowers bloomed was just there, with no care given to it.

Sometimes colors seems not so important aspect of floral thing.