Poppy Fields at 8:00 AM

I got up early even on Sunday, went to Shirasawa Green Park to see poppy fields.
They were just in full bloom.

Unbelievably, no one was walking except me in that huge park at 8:00 in the morning.

 I hung around there about half an hour.
 During the time, I just met one woman taking a walk with a dog.

Hot Air Balloon Competition in Utsunomiya

When I played tennis at Shirasawa Green Park today, I happened to see many hot air balloons in the sky. They were flying so far away that I could barely see them like dots in the sky.

I remembered “Tochigi Hot Air Balloon International Championship” held in my city three years ago. That had been a wonderful experience to me.

I upload two pictures I took today and a video I made three years ago.

Lavender Field

A couple weeks ago, I went to a lavender field in Shirasawa Green Park near Kinu river.
It looked beautiful and smelled nice.

People working for Shirasawa park maintain various beautiful flowers, for example, lavender, poppy, field mustard, cosmos, cherry blossom, …

I’ve never met people in charge of gardening in the park but I know the work must be hard.
Thanks guys there for keeping beautiful flowers all the year around.
I really appreciate your efforts.

Modified Pictures

Since the 9th grade up to my graduation of college, I was a member of photography club. I used to take hundreds of pictures within a week, develop and print them by myself.

It really took long time to make satisfactory pictures. I sometimes spent a whole night to make a few nice pictures

But everything has changed regarding to the way of photography these days. In my case, I quit taking pictures using films almost five years ago.

Thanks to the software technology, changing colors, contrast and gradation have become quite easy work.

I modified two pictures I took last month spending only few minutes.

I’m satisfied with the results very much.

Don’t you think so?

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