Harbor View Park

Withering Orange Rose

Shot taken in the rose garden behind a Spanish-style house at Yamate Bluff No. 111,  which was built in 1929 for an American businessman, Mr. Raffin, who worked in the foreign exchange business. 

ISO 400 at ƒ/5.6 for 1/250 sec.

#YamateBluff111 #rose #flower #rosegarden #Yokohama

#山手111番館 #バラ #花 #ローズガーデン #横浜

Light Purple Rose

"Even a beautiful rose approaching decline has a different beauty that many overlook and scoff at. The bounteous joy, awe, and fragrance she gave during her prime may have diminished, but her value to me lasts until her very last petal slowly drifts away like a feather in the wind.”

ISO 400 at ƒ/5.6 for 1/160 sec.

#YamateBluff111 #rose #flower #rosegarden #Yokohama

#山手111番館 #バラ #花 #ローズガーデン #横浜

Yokohama Bay Bridge as seen from Harbor View Park

The Yokohama Bay Bridge is one of my favorite structures in the Bay of Yokohama. Back in the 80s, driving to Tokyo on the Shuto Expressway, an elevated highway that runs along the shoreline of Tokyo Bay starting in Yokohama, was just a long, bumper-bumper, jam-packed highway that inched along with a toll to boot. Even so, it was still faster to reach Tokyo than taking the city streets down below. When the bridge opened in 1989, my mates and I would "race" each other over the bridge and take one of the expressway loops in the heart of Tokyo where we’d loop back to Yokohama and cross the bridge again. Below the bridge is the Daikoku Futo rest area where we’d take a break and then start over again throughout the night until the sun rose or the cops showed up on the scene. We were the original Tokyo Drifter minus the Yakuza ties. We had a close-knit community of Japanese blue-collar car hobbyists with a mix of young U.S. sailors and who were especially skilled at salvaging older cars from the 70s like the Nissan Skyline, Sylvia, Gloria, and Fairlady Z; or the  Toyota Celica, Supra, Cresta, and Mark II. I am so grateful I survived my stupid, naive, and younger years without getting killed or killing anyone else. We did lose one friend who was only 19 years old, but that was a case of him driving while sleepy and had nothing to do with drifting on the expressway or winding mountain roads. 

ISO 400 at ƒ/14 for 1/320 sec.

#YokohamaBayBridge #YokohamaBay #PortofYokohama #HarborViewPark #Yokohama

#横浜ベイブリッジ #横浜湾 #横浜港 #港の見える丘公園 #横浜

Dark Pink Rose

The Harbor View Park, located up on a bluff overlooking the Port of Yokohama, was originally a British military garrison with up to 1,700 soldiers and marines starting back in 1862. The Shogunate granted the land to the Brits and they quickly set up their own home-away-from-home. Now in the 21st century, a portion of the grounds have been turned into a beautiful rose garden open to the public year-round.

ISO 800 at ƒ/7.1 for 1/400 sec.

#rose #garden #park #HarborViewPark #Yokohama

#バラ #ロースガーデン #公園 #港の見える丘公園 #横浜

Bumblebee and Lavender

Shot of a bumblebee gathering nectar from flowering lavender in the Harbor View Park up on the bluff in Yokohama. I wish I could have gotten a better shot of this worker, but she was moving too fast for me to keep up. Fortunately, Yokohama city has planted a lot of lavender in many green spaces throughout the city. Lavender seems to be quite popular for aesthetic reasons, but it also plays an important role in preserving some of the ecosystem bumblebees need since they prefer violet-colored flowers for their primary source of food.

ISO 800 at ƒ/7.1 for 1/320 sec.

#bee #bumblebee #flower #pollinator #closeup #lavender #violet #purple #insect

#ハチ #マルハナバチ #花 #花粉媒介者 #大写し #クローズアップ #ラベンダー #スミレ色 #紫 #昆虫

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