Kyoto in Cherry season
Earlier this year I was in Japan on a work trip. We managed to take a day to run down to Kyoto and it was peak cherry season. I have learned that it is actually quite difficult to do justice to cherry blossoms. They almost need to be a supporting act. You need to have some other element in the photo to help anchor and augment the blossoms. There was an awesome photo in a recent Time magazine. It was a portrait of a woman surrounded by cherry blossoms, but taken from a distance with a telephoto lens.
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Piers van der Merwe
Born in Zimbabwe, educated in Cape Town (UCT), now living in Knoxville, USA. I travel a lot for work, to a wide variety of venues that affords me the opportunity for taking interesting and varied photos. Hobbies, other than photography, include cycling and reading.
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