{"id":1715,"date":"2011-03-04T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T02:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-03-04\/1715"},"modified":"2011-03-04T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T02:57:52","slug":"surprising-early-cherry-blossom-preview-hits-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-03-04\/1715","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Early Cherry-Blossom Preview Hits Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 58 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/11, ISO 2800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nMonth-Early Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview<\/span>\n( sort of )\n<\/div>\n\n

We woke up this morning to find the pleasant surprise of a fresh<\/span> coating of\nsnow on the trees. It looked<\/span> remarkably like the cherry was in bloom, which\nseemed particularly apropos because last night I was<\/span> thinking that today I\nshould<\/span> write up a “Cherry Blossom Preview” post (as I've done occasionally\nin years past... searching my blog\ntable of contents<\/a>, I find<\/span> this<\/a>, this<\/a>, and this<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Compare the view above with real cherry blossoms from the same vantage\npoint, either in this post<\/a> or at points during\nthis cherry-blossom\ntimelapse<\/a> also from my balcony (in which you can scrub your mouse from side to side over the last image to see the\ntimelapse effect). Or, similar views\nhere<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

Back to today, there wasn't much snow, but enough to make the branches look pretty...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 450 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nDeep in the Shade<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 400 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nOut in the Open<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

And when the sun came out behind some, it was a different<\/span> kind of pretty (that I didn't<\/span> quite capture in the photo)...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 500 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/16, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nBacklit<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

This guy surprised me when he popped into view with a sudden<\/span>\ncontrol-tower flyby. Nothing's really in focus (I didn't<\/span> have time in the\nsplit second before he passed to switch to a continuous<\/span>-focus setting), but\neven so I like<\/span> something about the result...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 290 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nBuzzing the Tower<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

There are a lot of gray herons around, so it's hard to tell who's who. I wonder<\/span> whether this bird was the heron in some of my previous posts\n(here<\/a>,\nhere<\/a>,\nhere<\/a>,\nhere<\/a>)....<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We woke up this morning to find the pleasant surprise of a fresh coating of snow on the trees. It looked remarkably like the cherry was in bloom, which seemed particularly apropos because last night I was thinking that today I should write up a \"Cherry Blossom Preview\" post (as I've done occasionally in years past... searching my blog table of contents, I find this, this, and this).<\/p>

Compare the view above with real cherry blossoms from the same vantage point, either in this post or at points during this cherry-blossom timelapse also from my balcony (in which you can [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}