In my opinion, one the greatest activities you can explore in Seattle are garden spaces like the Seattle Japanese Garden. This garden was opened to the public in 1960 and while it’s small (only 3.5 acres), it’s a beautifully curated space to wander.
As seasons change, especially from summer to fall, this garden comes to life with a focused experience of traditional Japanese elements like Japanese Lace Leaf Maple Trees to more local Pacific Northwest plant life.
This is a space that I know I should visit regularly simply to enjoy the quiet moments, the views, the trees, or the Koi hanging out in the pond. But as we know life gets busy, so when I do visit, I like to spend at least two or three hours slowly exploring the space and of course capturing elements that I find beautiful.
I recently took my Fujifilm GFX RF on a trip to the space. One of the cool things about this camera is the lens, which is fairly wide-angle; allowing me show the broad open spaces. I also love to get a little bit closer and capture details of the leaves in the trees and elements I find interesting.
As I was leaving for the day, this huge Japanese Lace Leaf Maple tree had the most beautiful light on it. I immediately began to take some photos of it and quickly realised I could easily spend an hour just photographing this one tree.
From warm glow on the leaves from behind, to how the light highlights the shape of the trunk and branches in the shadows.
If you know me, I am someone who tries not take tons and tons of photos when I go out on one of these little photowalks, but on this day I took 171 images, which is a lot.
As I got home and started looking through the images, I narrowed down my favourites to 41 (somehow). But in this post, I’m only sharing a few and these are my absolute favourites from the day.
