Out of
all the photos I have taken on
my eight outings at the Japanese Garden, I have to say that I think the photos from October 2016 are perhaps the best. I felt like I was in a photographic flow, totally unlike the time I was
desperately seeking inspiration, or the other time I had
a very disappointing evening outing.
As I strolled through the Garden that mid-October morning, I would come across the newly-risen sun illuminating, like a spotlight, a particular tree, a certain leaf, while the surroundings were still shrouded in shadows. In other places, the sunlight would cast interesting shadows on a wall or on the ground. Such sights were a delight to
my photographer’s eye.
From the overlook at the eastern edge of the Garden there was a stunning view, through the woven bamboo
Moonlight Arch by
Shigeo Kawashima, over
downtown Portland to the 11,249-foot
Mount Hood, Oregon’s highest peak, about 50 miles away.
Out of the 155 pictures I took during the two hours I wandered the Garden paths, you can find the best 47 in this album. The nearly 250 pictures (so far) from all of my monthly albums have been gathered together into the conglomerate
Portland Japanese Garden (All Years) super-album.
