Early Blooming Kawakuzakura Photo Shoot in Yoyogi Park

February 2020

I went with my lovely photographer friend Lisa (instagram: @hanamiphotography) to photo shoot and frolic with the early-blooming kawazuzakura! 

Here's my YouTube video from this day:

We met up at Harajuku station and walked to Yoyogi Park from there. 

We planned to shoot me, but then we both got distracted by the beauty and started shooting the flowers instead XD 

 Then we saw some mejiro! They're little green birds, and I'm always surprised to see green birds in the wild, because they aren't in WV as far as I know. When I see a green bird, I think of a parrot or something tropical that I'd only seen before in captivity. We had to try for a while to capture these little guys, as they were hopping and flitting all about!

 Then we talked a lot, about life, Japan, flowers, photography. She was so sweet and easy to talk to right after meeting! We clicked right away, and she even let me try out her camera!

After shooting, we decided to grab a quick bite at a healthy cafe like an oasis in Omotesando. We managed to leave with cameras full of beauty, bellies full of good healthy food, and hearts full of friendship. <3 

Here are the photos she took of me, and here is her instagram where you can find all her beautiful photography! Contact her if you want to have beautiful flower photos while you're in Tokyo! 

https://www.instagram.com/hanamiphotography/

It was great meeting someone as obsessed with flowers as I am! I didn't even know about there being kawazuzakura in Yoyogi, so I'm really glad I got the chance to see them. I have already seen plum blossoms, and kawazuzakura this year. I am so excited for the full-force cherry blossom bloom and then next adventure with Lisa! <3

Blog: Nagoya Bluebonnet Wildflower Garden and Yoyogi Park Photo Shoots

I had a photo shoot at the Nagoya Bluebonnet Wildflower Garden in Nagoya Port with Hiro Motegi last summer (I'll add links to his stuff below)! I already have a post with pictures of flowers and more details about the garden so now, here's a few pictures from the shoot! I was trying to channel my inner forest faerie and Alice in Wonderland.

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Usually when I attempt this expression, I look stupid, but he caught it very well! I look like a sleepy fairy =]

The angle makes the flowers look like giant mushrooms!

I'll also post the ones from Yoyogi park in Tokyo last winter taken by Ando Karakawa.  It snowed the day before, but it was really warm this day, so it wasn't cold outside even though there was snow!

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