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Botanical gardens and animal parks (2024-06-22)
Two years ago a comparison between Japanese and Scandinavian parks was made. These comparisons were made between Kyoto Botanical Garden and Lund Botanical Garden, and between Tennoji Zoo and Scania Animal Park. A day was spent with photos at each animal park. In the botanical gardens one finds themselves so surrounded by vegetation that multiple trips were made.
Results are that the botanical gardens feel the same for someone who doesn't know anything about plants. It seems that the flowers you see in the Japanese garden also appear in the Scandinavian one. The difference lies in that you have to pay an entrance fee for the Kyoto Botanical Garden. Inside the artist sits under trees and paints the landscape. In Lund the entrance is free and the garden is filled with students who like to use the area for picnics.
On the other hand, the animal parks are a world apart. At Tennoji Zoo they have a wide variety of animal species and the entrance was cheap, however, the enclosures are small and the animals look worried as they try to run in their enclosure. In Scania Animal Park they have collected a bunch of European animals, and those animals look happy, however, entrance fee is high and the park feels like it was made for children.
With that, here are four albums from two years ago. There will be more photos from Lund Botanical garden (since it's free it's a subject to frequent visits). Until then, please take your time and enjoy these photos.
Expanded info etc. (2023-11-08)
An information sheet has been added to each post and 6 new photo albums have been published. Three of the albums were taken in spring in the South Ward of Kyoto and follows the Katsura River and the Kamo River as some showcase of Kisshoin. The next three albums were from the following summer in Sweden with one at night. The night album is taken from the night shift worker's perspective for a full year. Furthermore, the photo album category "location" has been divided into 4 new categories. On the top of that "the photowall" which is a mixture of photos have made a reentry on the website.
Unfortunately the amount of photos to review has been immense and portrait photography has been postponed. For now photos of plants and photos of animals have been prepared for revision. Besides photography, a lot of time has gone into software development. Those who know, know about this lengthy project. Since the continuation of the software is sporadic there is no telling of when an alpha version will be available.
Please take your time and enjoy.
15 October
A prologue to the recent autumn album has been added.
After this some albums taken in 2022 in both Japan and Sweden will be added,
and some more information on albums will be available.
Meanwhile, please take your time and enjoy these photographs.
28 September
Photos from Umekoji park in 2019 have been uploaded.
On this day there was a market on the square and children played in the park.
25 August
Two photo albums from 2022 have been added.
The first album is themed around the autumn season and consists of photos in Lund, Sweden.
The second album was taken at the famous Fushimi Inari Taisha.
Both of the albums contain large format photographs.
Furthermore, the latter album also contains focus stacks.
31 July
Summer trips albums from last year (2022) have been posted into the website.
Four new posts have been uploaded and one has been revised.
2023 site update (July)
The website has been updated.
The background has been changed for a dark one to give a better photo viewing experience.
Furthermore, the site has been adapted to fit better on the long narrow screens of smartphones.
For the near future...
New photos will be posted.
There are plans on portrait photography from the start of autumn.
On top of that some of the photos accumulated over the past 8 years will hopefully be uploaded to the site.
Please take your time and enjoy these photographs.