Hydrangeas matching the blue sky and sunshine
- わたなべもも
- May 1
- 3 min read
Hanayume no Sato, which until recently was covered in a blue carpet of nemophila, now offers beautiful flower fields for each season, and hydrangeas, already beginning to add color to the early summer, are on standby.
The hydrangeas blooming on the plateau are so refreshing! You completely forget about the humidity of the rainy season. The hydrangeas here look better in the sun than in the rain. They look great in the blue sky.
Hydrangeas come in a huge variety of colors and types, but here they have 115 varieties and 3,500 plants... and as expected, they never disappoint. Photographing the soft, bitter hydrangeas is nice, but the hydrangeas decorating the entire hill, playing with the light, are like sweets. The cute little flowers look so soft and delicious that they would look good displayed in a cake shop.
Looking at the cute, lush hydrangeas makes me want to spread out a sheet and lie down under the blue sky. I'm already in the mood for a picnic. Apparently, you're free to bring your own lunch as long as you take your trash home with you. If you feel like having some sweets after your meal, try the hydrangea-colored soft serve ice cream or hydrangea soda.
There is a view here that you definitely shouldn't miss.
If you go deep into Hanayume no Sato, a world of white and green suddenly opens up before you.
Hiding a secret garden in the depths like this... what a clever twist.
Annabelle buds resemble a plate of yellow-green leaves, with small white flowers like delicate lace, arranged generously on top. If you squat down and look up, you are already in Annabelle buds. Take a deep breath and feel the refreshing sensation of taking a forest bath.
Look up with a wide-angle lens and frame the sky with flowers, or zoom in with a telephoto lens to capture the delicate lace pattern. Just changing the lens will produce a completely different photo of the same flower.
Flowers with lots of tiny gaps, like Annabelle's, create a soft, high-quality foreground blur. With this much volume in the flower, there are many other ways to photograph it. The secret garden may still be hiding many secrets.
Finally, we will introduce a very rare field of hollyhock flowers.
The tall, straight stems were covered with pastel-colored parasol-like flowers, towering taller than me, resembling both antennae and magic wands.
When 3,500 hollyhocks are gathered together, it becomes a flower field. Actually, it's more like a flower forest than a flower field.
"What kind of parasol should I get this summer?" Looking closely at the cute, fluttering parasols, many of them have quite elaborate designs, such as striped patterns or ones with a crinkled middle.
I'd love to hold such a lovely parasol and get lost in the hollyhock forest... Hana Yume no Sato is, after all, a place to see flowers and dreams.
Momo Watanabe (flower photography, lyrics, storytelling)
He made his debut as a songwriter while still working at a kindergarten, and retired the following year. He began writing children's songs and stories. He then met photographer Marubayashi Masanori and learned flower photography. He carries a camera instead of a flower basket, and instead of picking flowers, he fills the camera with them. With the theme of "Wonderland behind the lens," he is currently running "Story*Photo," which utilizes his unique sensibility in workshops and creates works based on stories. He is a lecturer at SONY Alpha Academy and head of PHOTO*MOMOTTO. He is the captain of the flower photography Momogumi. His CD and photo poetry collection "gradation" are currently on sale.
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