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Japan Photo Of the Week: Cherry Blossoms and Geisha

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Unless you are up in the north of Japan, your cherry blossom season is about done with; however, I live in the north of Japan so mine is just beginning! In any case, cherry blossom season is my favorite season in Japan, (fall is a close second, but cherry blossom season is much shorter so it gets the nod as my favorite) so until the end of April I will be posting some cherry blossom photos I like. For example, this one:

I wanted to post this photo for two reasons, the first being that I like it. The second is to show an example of how you can use cherry blossoms in your photos without making them the main focus. That is why, even though you can barely see the cherry blossoms I decided to post this photo. If you want to learn more about geisha and maiko (actually I pretty sure the girl is this photo is a maiko and not a geisha yet, can anyone confirm this?) click the photo above or check out wikipedia. If you haven’t already checked out the cherry blossom photos at the gallery, here they are or if you wanna see a few more geisha photos there they are.

This photograph was taken by Evan Pike.



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