{"id":1235,"date":"2024-10-15T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:55:23","slug":"ibaraki-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ibaraki-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibaraki 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1235 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ibaraki-2024\/_dsc0896\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC0896-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC0896-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DSC0896-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Week_(Japan)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Week_(Japan)\">Golden Week<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The first two days in particular, the weather wasn&#8217;t cooperating. The first day reinforced I don&#8217;t know how to deal with cloudy or overcast skies. I was really hoping for more sun to shoot the flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &#8220;fried egg jellyfish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards, I thought I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall it went ok. 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