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| チューリップ連写1 |
日曜日なので、穏やかな内容を書いています。
BTS(以下バンタン）の日本公演は無事に済んだそうですね。
久しぶりのイルアミ（日本アーミーさんのこと）とバンタンの再会と披露宴が穏やかに済んで良かったです。
（私はファンです。）
春の白い午後にスーパーの入り口にあった、チューリップの苗を3つ購入して植えていたのが開きました。
チューリップは本来、前の年の9月頃にネット通販で球根のアタックがありますので、興味がある方はぜひ夏が終わり始めたらご検討下さい。
チューリップはオランダの名花ですが、原種はもっと暑い地域のサバンナに似た勇壮な大地に生えていたそうです。
可憐なのに何処か力強いのは其の所以かもしれませんね。
開き切ったチューリップって街路で見かけると、少し悲しくなるのですが、このように歌姫カルメンを思わせる上品さに満ちています。
此れは嬉しい発見でした。
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| チューリップ連写2 |
先日メルカリで大きめの花瓶を買いました。
先ほど部屋のドアの前に届いたそうです。LINEのヤマトで確認しました。
ヤマト運輸や佐川急便のオフィシャルでアカウント登録をすると（無料）、荷物が届く前に日にちや時間が指定できますし、割りと直前になっても一度指定した日時が変更出来るので便利ですよ。（佐川急便は変更は2回迄でした。）
普段私はとてもお世話になっています。
花瓶って小さ過ぎると思いませんか？
花を生けたいと思った時イメージするのは、美術館のエントランス・スペースにあるような、沢山の量を高さのある大きな花瓶に設えている（しつらえている）風景です。
若しくは一輪から数輪の花を、野の花のように可憐に楚々と生けるものですよね。
私もけっこう花瓶を買う方で、気が付くと小さな花瓶で雰囲気のあるものを沢山買っていました。
素敵な名前を持つ庭の薔薇やジャスミン、そして季節毎に巡り合う鉢花を、さあ生けようという時に花瓶が小さくて良く枝や茎を切っていたんですね。
でも先日、ユーフォルビア・ブラックバードの花を切って生けようとしたら、寸胴（ずんどう）と呼ばれるステンレスの大鍋しか高さが合わなくて、今取り急ぎ其処に生けています。
メルカリで購入した大きくて背の高い花瓶に生け替えるのが、楽しみです。
きっと本日の午後、此処に写真を載せると思います。
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| チューリップ連写3 |
私がこちらに載せている写真は、ご覧のように色補正という工程をフォトショップというソフトウエアで行っています。
今日のチューリップ連写は微かな色補正だけですが、3年程前から今までの色補正とは全く違う色補正・明るさ補正を行わなければならなくなっていました。
同じ天候、同じ季節でも過去数十年の補正値とは別の、訓練で習得した技術、YMC・BGR +濃度の基準値とは別の補正値が必要になっていました。
色というのは波長（波調）という波形を持った目に見えない線を出していて、それが太陽や電灯の明かりを曲げて私達の目に象と色を届け、目の神経と機能がそれをさらに補正し（自覚無しに知らないでやっているんですよ。びっくりですよね！）、脳がそれをさらに複雑に補正して、色として判別しているんです。
難しいですね！ 私の今日のお昼はハムと胡瓜とプロセス・チーズと辛子バターのサンドイッチです気にしなくて良いですよ。
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| チューリップ全景 |
アフター・コロナぐらいから、過去数十年の気象条件に何らかの条件加わったようで、3年程前から一年間一年中グリーン（BGR値のG）をやたらと補正しなければならなくなっています。
何か気象条件が大きく、海域単位で変わったのかもしれないと予測を立てている所です。
写真に撮らければ認識できないものは、今軽くご説明した写真のレンズ機能を通して焼き付けた画像の中でしか見えない色の他に、美しさの種類があります。
よく写真に撮ってみて分かることがあるのですが、スマートフォンのレンズには人の顔が鏡で見ている顔とは似ても似つかないように映る特性があり、こちらは若い方やデジタル・ネイティブの自撮りが上手い方にはお馴染みですよね。
写真は嘘だと言われていますが、撮ったままこそが本来の自然な姿というのは大嘘です。
レンズの特性、フィルム・デジタルデータの特性を知り、レンズを覗いた時にご自身が見た姿・形こそ、撮ったもの・人の本来の姿です。
目が自然に補正しているのはあくまでも距離やフレーム画角の修正であり、出来る限り沢山の情報を取り込もうとしているからで、曲がった像を見ているのではありません。
見た状態に限りなく近付ける為に、デジタル・データでは専用ソフトを使って色や明るさの補正を行います。
私が出しているのは、作品というジャンルの写真なので、色を偏らせたり、商業写真・広告写真のルールを破った写真構図を取ったりしています。
なので色補正をしていても、私の好みや気分が反映されているのでした。
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| 蓮華草 |
こちらは蓮華草（れんげそう）です。
ウィキペディアで調べると、私達日本人の多くが蓮華（れんげ）と呼ぶ花は蓮華草と言うんだそうです。
蓮華だと睡蓮をも含むのだそうです。
本来の発音は「げんげ」とウィキにはありますが、「れんげ」という発音も江戸時代からあるそうです。
まだ調べていないのですが、濁音「”」が付くと、日本語は謙虚さの発音になり、身内やご自身が其処まででもありませんよ、と本当は誇りに思っているのに、他の方にはそう謙遜する音の表現ではないか、と思っています。
「れんげ」の音の響きは、連なる華という字の「げ」のことで、お膝元であったどちらかの土地の方が謙遜して「げんげ」と呼んでいたのではないでしょうか？
蓮華の香り、は、蓮華草であっても、水豊かな緩やかで広い澄んだ流れを連想しますね。
水には香りが無いようで在りますが、 同じ水と呼ばれる大小様々なコミュニティに流れる、淑やかで毅然とした香りはきっと蓮華草のように伝わり育まれ続けるのでしょうね。
それでは、雨の線が細く集い、優しく染まった1輪の野の花を想いながら、素敵な午後をお過ごし下さい。
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| ジャスミンの灯台 |
20260419 文章を直しました。
20260420 09:21 文章を直しました。
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| Tulip Photo Series 1 |
Since it’s Sunday, I’m writing something lighthearted.
I hear BTS’s (hereinafter referred to as “BTS”) Japan concert went off without a hitch.
I’m glad the long-awaited reunion between the Japanese ARMY and BTS, as well as their celebration, went smoothly.
(I’m a fan.)
The three tulip seedlings I bought at the entrance of a supermarket on a white spring afternoon and planted have finally bloomed.
Tulip bulbs are usually available for purchase online around September of the previous year, so if you’re interested, please consider getting some once summer starts to wind down.
Tulips are famous as the flower of the Netherlands, but apparently, the original species grew in rugged, savanna-like landscapes in much hotter regions.
That might explain why they’re delicate yet somehow powerful.
Seeing fully bloomed tulips on the street usually makes me a little sad, but these are filled with an elegance reminiscent of the opera diva Carmen.
This was a delightful discovery.
I hear BTS’s (hereinafter referred to as “BTS”) Japan concert went off without a hitch.
I’m glad the long-awaited reunion between the Japanese ARMY and BTS, as well as their celebration, went smoothly.
(I’m a fan.)
The three tulip seedlings I bought at the entrance of a supermarket on a white spring afternoon and planted have finally bloomed.
Tulip bulbs are usually available for purchase online around September of the previous year, so if you’re interested, please consider getting some once summer starts to wind down.
Tulips are famous as the flower of the Netherlands, but apparently, the original species grew in rugged, savanna-like landscapes in much hotter regions.
That might explain why they’re delicate yet somehow powerful.
Seeing fully bloomed tulips on the street usually makes me a little sad, but these are filled with an elegance reminiscent of the opera diva Carmen.
This was a delightful discovery.
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| Tulip Photo Series 2 |
I bought a large vase on Mercari the other day.
I heard it was just delivered to the door of my room. I checked via Yamato’s LINE app.
If you register for a free account on the official websites of Yamato Transport or Sagawa Express, you can specify the delivery date and time before your package arrives. It’s really convenient because you can even change your scheduled delivery time right up until the last minute. (With Sagawa Express, you can make changes up to two times.)
I rely on these services a lot.
Don’t you think vases are often too small?
When I think about arranging flowers, I picture a scene like the one in the entrance hall of an art museum, where a large, tall vase is filled with a profusion of blooms.
Or perhaps arranging just one or a few flowers, arranged delicately and modestly like wildflowers.
I’m actually quite the vase collector, and before I knew it, I’d bought a whole bunch of small, atmospheric ones.
Whenever I’d try to arrange the garden roses and jasmine with their lovely names, or the potted flowers I encounter each season, the vases were so small that I’d often have to trim the branches and stems.
But the other day, when I tried to cut and arrange some Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’ flowers, the only container with the right height was a large stainless steel pot—the kind called a “zundou”—so I’ve temporarily arranged them there for now.
I’m looking forward to transferring them to the tall, large vase I bought on Mercari.
I’m sure I’ll post a photo here this afternoon.
I heard it was just delivered to the door of my room. I checked via Yamato’s LINE app.
If you register for a free account on the official websites of Yamato Transport or Sagawa Express, you can specify the delivery date and time before your package arrives. It’s really convenient because you can even change your scheduled delivery time right up until the last minute. (With Sagawa Express, you can make changes up to two times.)
I rely on these services a lot.
Don’t you think vases are often too small?
When I think about arranging flowers, I picture a scene like the one in the entrance hall of an art museum, where a large, tall vase is filled with a profusion of blooms.
Or perhaps arranging just one or a few flowers, arranged delicately and modestly like wildflowers.
I’m actually quite the vase collector, and before I knew it, I’d bought a whole bunch of small, atmospheric ones.
Whenever I’d try to arrange the garden roses and jasmine with their lovely names, or the potted flowers I encounter each season, the vases were so small that I’d often have to trim the branches and stems.
But the other day, when I tried to cut and arrange some Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’ flowers, the only container with the right height was a large stainless steel pot—the kind called a “zundou”—so I’ve temporarily arranged them there for now.
I’m looking forward to transferring them to the tall, large vase I bought on Mercari.
I’m sure I’ll post a photo here this afternoon.
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| Tulip Photo Series 3 |
As you can see, I use Photoshop to perform color correction on the photos I post here.
While today’s series of tulip photos only required minor color correction, for the past three years or so, I’ve had to apply color and brightness corrections that are completely different from what I used to do.
Even under the same weather conditions and in the same season, I found myself needing correction values different from those used over the past few decades—values based on techniques I’ve mastered through training, distinct from the standard YMC, BGR, and saturation values.
Color consists of invisible lines with waveforms called wavelengths. These bend the light from the sun or electric lamps to deliver images and colors to our eyes, and our eye nerves and functions correct them further (We do this unconsciously, without even realizing it.
While today’s series of tulip photos only required minor color correction, for the past three years or so, I’ve had to apply color and brightness corrections that are completely different from what I used to do.
Even under the same weather conditions and in the same season, I found myself needing correction values different from those used over the past few decades—values based on techniques I’ve mastered through training, distinct from the standard YMC, BGR, and saturation values.
Color consists of invisible lines with waveforms called wavelengths. These bend the light from the sun or electric lamps to deliver images and colors to our eyes, and our eye nerves and functions correct them further (We do this unconsciously, without even realizing it.
Surprising, isn’t it?), and the brain applies even more complex corrections to distinguish them as colors.
It’s complicated! My lunch today is a sandwich with ham, cucumber, processed cheese, and mustard butter. Don’t worry about it.
It’s complicated! My lunch today is a sandwich with ham, cucumber, processed cheese, and mustard butter. Don’t worry about it.
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| Panoramic view of the tulips |
Since around the time of the post-COVID era, it seems that some new factor has been added to the weather conditions of the past few decades; for about three years now, I’ve had to constantly adjust the green (the “G” in the BGR values) throughout the entire year.
I’m currently working on a theory that some major change in weather conditions may have occurred on a regional oceanic scale.
There is a type of beauty in photographs that cannot be recognized unless captured on film—beyond the colors visible only in the images imprinted through the lens functions I briefly explained earlier.
There’s something you often realize when you take a photo: smartphone lenses have a tendency to make people’s faces look completely different from how they appear in a mirror—a phenomenon familiar to young people and digital natives who are skilled at taking selfies.
People say that photographs lie, but the claim that the unedited image is the true, natural form is a complete falsehood.
By understanding the characteristics of the lens and the nature of film or digital data, the form and shape you see when looking through the lens is the true, natural form of the subject or person.
What the eye naturally corrects is merely adjustments for distance and the frame’s angle of view—it does this to capture as much information as possible—not because it is seeing a distorted image.
To get as close as possible to what the eye sees, we use specialized software to adjust color and brightness in digital data.
Since the photos I produce fall under the category of “art,” I intentionally skew colors and use compositions that break the rules of commercial or advertising photography.
So even when I’m adjusting colors, my personal preferences and mood are still reflected in the final image.
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| Lotus Grass |
This is the Japanese water lily (Renge-so).
According to Wikipedia, the flower that many of us Japanese people call “Renge” is actually called “Renge-so.”
Apparently, the term “Renge” also includes water lilies.
Wikipedia states that the original pronunciation is “genge,” but the pronunciation “renge” has apparently existed since the Edo period.
I haven’t looked into it yet, but I suspect that when a voiced consonant (“” ) is added, the Japanese pronunciation takes on a humble tone—a way of saying to family or oneself, “I’m not really that great,” even though one is actually proud of it, but chooses to be modest in front of others.
The sound of “renge” comes from the “ge” in the character for “linked flowers” (連なる花). Perhaps people in one of the regions near the source of the lotus humbly referred to it as “genge”?
The scent of the lotus—even when referring to the lotus plant itself—brings to mind a gentle, wide, clear stream flowing through water-rich lands.
Though water itself seems to have no scent, the gentle yet resolute fragrance that flows through communities of all sizes—all called “water”—will surely continue to be passed down and nurtured, just like the lotus plant.
According to Wikipedia, the flower that many of us Japanese people call “Renge” is actually called “Renge-so.”
Apparently, the term “Renge” also includes water lilies.
Wikipedia states that the original pronunciation is “genge,” but the pronunciation “renge” has apparently existed since the Edo period.
I haven’t looked into it yet, but I suspect that when a voiced consonant (“” ) is added, the Japanese pronunciation takes on a humble tone—a way of saying to family or oneself, “I’m not really that great,” even though one is actually proud of it, but chooses to be modest in front of others.
The sound of “renge” comes from the “ge” in the character for “linked flowers” (連なる花). Perhaps people in one of the regions near the source of the lotus humbly referred to it as “genge”?
The scent of the lotus—even when referring to the lotus plant itself—brings to mind a gentle, wide, clear stream flowing through water-rich lands.
Though water itself seems to have no scent, the gentle yet resolute fragrance that flows through communities of all sizes—all called “water”—will surely continue to be passed down and nurtured, just like the lotus plant.
With that, I hope you have a wonderful afternoon, thinking of a single wildflower gently colored by the fine threads of rain.
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| Jasmine's LightHouse |
20260419 Revised the text.
20260420 09:21 Revised the text.
