Pink Puffy Flower Puffs
Bunch of Pink Puffy Flower, er, Puffy Things Lobby of the Hotel Okura, Kyoto Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 52 mm — 1/45 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — map & image datanearby photos
Bunch of Pink Puffy Flower, er, Puffy Things
Lobby of the Hotel Okura, Kyoto Japan

On the way home from the park the other day, Anthony and I stopped by the Hotel Okura to pick up a birthday cake for Fumie's mom. Kyoto's Hotel Okura has a first-floor restaurant with excellent (although extremely expensive) food and cake that's part of our Christmas-Eve Tradition.

Not wanting to leave my camera outside in my bicycle basket, I had it with me, and couldn't help but take a picture of the lovely puffy flowers in the lobby. They're all fairly long hand-held exposures, but seem to have turned out okay.

Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1/40 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — map & image datanearby photos
Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1/40 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — map & image datanearby photos
Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 @ 23 mm — 1/30 sec, f/2.8, ISO 640 — map & image datanearby photos

All 2 comments so far, oldest first...

Those are alliums, or flowering onions. Nice images!

— comment by Cate on May 25th, 2008 at 3:40am JST (15 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink

Wow awesome flower!! I don’t think I have ever seen them before. Thanks for the pictures 🙂

— comment by monchy on May 26th, 2008 at 4:56am JST (15 years, 10 months ago) comment permalink
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