Photo Challenge

Apr 9, 2024 ∞

Day 10: 📷 train (@starrwulfe) #mbApr

The Nintendo Train through the cherry blossoms 🍄👸🚋🌸

zoom photo through a sakura tree to a train crossing a bridge. Next to the bridge is another sakura tree in full bloom. The train is wrapped with a Super Mario World design for Universal Studies Japan, with depictions of the Princess, some Shy Guys, and more characters from the franchise

Apr 9, 2024 ∞

Day 9: 📷 crispy (@rom) #mbApr

Karaage (fried chicken) with some sakurai mochi and hanami dango 🌸🍡

a plate of karaage and a plate with two pieces of sakura-mochi and a stick of three coloured hanami dango

Apr 8, 2024 ∞

Day 8: 📷 prevention (@anniegreens) #mbApr

“Memory Park” is full of cherry blossom trees and a hanami spot for families in my neighbourhood. 🌸 Lovely, no? But notice the low building just beyond the trees? On the other side of the cranes? That is the Osaka Detention Center. Prevention.

a park of sakura trees. Just beyond and above you can see a building and some cranes

Apr 7, 2024 ∞

Day 7: 📷 wellbeing (@ridwan)

It’s been ☁️ overcast ☁️ every day during this cherry blossom season 😞 but finally we got some blue sky. An old friend from Kelowna who lives in Fukuoka came up to 🚅 Osaka to visit us for the day.

Being together 👫
Under the sakura trees 🌸
We share well-being 🥰

bright cherry blossoms against a blue sky

Apr 6, 2024 ∞

Day 6: 📷 windy (@Miraz)

I went out to try and capture something for today’s @challenges theme, but it is just not that windy 😫 Staying within my self-imposed cherry blossom rule, I got a shot of a single petal in a pond rippled with a gentle wind. 🌬🌊🌸

Close up photo a of a single cherry blossom petal in a pond rippled with a gentle wind

Apr 5, 2024 ∞

Day 5: 📷 serene (@chiawase)

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Just sat and watched this scene for a while this afternoon. Many feels from real life … IYKYK

Osaka Castle through the cherry blossoms

Apr 3, 2024 ∞

Day 4: 📷 foliage (@pratik)

Although we are only at something like 60% bloom for the whole region, some varietals bloomed last week. Now the leaves 🍃 are poking through the blossoms 🌸

There is still time for 花見 hanami flower-viewing. Then comes 葉っぱ見 happami leaf-viewing 🍻

Tight shot of a cherry blossom tree showing the mix of pink blossoms and fresh green leaves. Looks like the leaves are winning

Apr 2, 2024 ∞

Day 3: card 📷 (@val)

Some sakura 🌸 themed greeting cards at a backstreet stationery shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stock any of those fancy 3D constructable ones where you get a whole tree, or the music light show ones. Still, the Japan levels are turned up to 11 on these 🎚️🇯🇵

3 greeting cards: One depicts Mt Fuji with cherry blossom trees in the foreground. Another is cherry blossoms with Himeji Castle in the background. The third is a kokeshi like doll-girl reaching up to catch falling sakura petals

Apr 2, 2024 ∞

Day 2: Flowers 📷 (@davegullett)

A photographer enjoys the blooming cherry blossoms

Long shot from a high angle through cherry blossom trees of a photographer on the ground shooting cherry blossoms above their head

Apr 1, 2024 ∞

📷 Day01 : toy (@pcora)

Cherry blossoms will be blooming over the next couple of weeks, so I am going to see if I can somehow maintain a parallel theme as this photo challenge progresses. Today I popped down to the Lego store to capture some toy cherry blossoms 🌸🧱