Back in May, I went to Ibaraki for the first time. Specifically I wanted to take pictures of nemophila in Hitachi Seaside park. I went the week after Golden Week, but I guess I arrived just a little bit after peak bloom as some of the flowers were starting to go and the grass was growing taller.
The first two days in particular, the weather wasn’t cooperating. The first day reinforced I don’t know how to deal with cloudy or overcast skies. I was really hoping for more sun to shoot the flowers.
The second day was rainy, so I decided to go to the aquarium Aqua World in Oarai. I saw a few species that I thought only existed in Dave the Diver like the “fried egg jellyfish.”
Afterwards, I thought I’d try to shoot long exposures of the Kamiiso no Torii gate in the ocean. I was hoping smoothing out the waves in a storm might be interesting, but I was fighting a lot of wind and rain going sideways. Going back a couple days later in the sun was a much better idea, but I should have tried getting a different angle from the down on the beach itself. Or with a taller tripod to get some space between the gate and the horizon.
Overall it went ok. I just wish the weather was more cooperative.
