Sakura By Streetlight
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I’ll say this for the cherries — they know how to put on a show. Just down the street from my place there are a couple of beautiful old specimens which balloon out over the road and envelop the streetlamps.
They create arbours over the street (the shade in the summer is every bit as appreciated as the flowers in spring).
Fluorescent streetlight on one side, incandescent lighting from a house across the road on the other.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.04.04 (Fri) • 11:55
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Posted by pete 2003.04.04, 12:03
JH, the place you live looks divine. Japan, sadly, has never been a place where I’ve managed to visit yet. This will have to change…
Posted by Keith 2003.04.04, 15:35
Wow. What a great couple of shots. Looks so peaceful, like a little oasis in the city.
Posted by Kris 2003.04.04, 16:17
In my neighbourhood there is currently a lot of hammering going on. Old houses and apartments are torn down to make space for a whole new block. The sight is kinda sad; a big mudpool with rubble and machines on the side.
Two days ago, I spotted a cherry tree in the center of the site and it was in full bloom. I wish I had a camera.
Posted by jh 2003.04.04, 16:44
Pete —-
the place you live looks divine
Well, I’m showing selective, gussied-up glimpses. Everywhere looks pretty in the spring, though.
Keith —- The cherries seem to create their own little oases, you’re right. They really are magnificent trees. Seems like overnight we’ve gone from bare, wintery branches to these huge pillowy things filling the neighbourhood.
Kris —- You can’t keep a good sakura down! Pick up one of those cheap ‘disposable’ cameras if you can.
Posted by Jesper 2003.04.04, 22:30
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Posted by Jeff 2003.04.04, 22:56
Jeremy, we are in sync. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom along the tidal basin here in DC. As a bonus, in our suburban neighborhood, they are also fluffy pink and white down the main street close to our house.
Posted by mike g 2003.04.05, 21:09
Ahh, I can’t wait.
Jeremy, remember that last snow you were hoping for a while back. Well, we just got that last snow here in Nagano. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I woke up this morning to thick, wet flakes coming down hard. It snowed all day long. Not much has stuck, of course, but it certainly was strange after the warm weather we’ve had lately.
And a friend told me last week that the sakura were scheduled to arrive in Nagano on April 5 — today. Ha! That’ll teach her to believe the “sakura report.”
Posted by Paul 2003.04.06, 00:53
Hey Jeremy, it’s funny to see that our websites are echoing like that about yozakura. I am fascinated by cities by night in general and recently by Tokyo’s kids’ parks at night. I like the color neon light gives to pictures.
Posted by meg 2003.04.08, 07:40
A beautiful photograph.
Posted by Heather 2003.04.08, 11:49
I love the effect you’ve created by photographing the trees at night. It looks lovely there.
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