May flowers: Rhododendron

Posted by Japanalia (Yokohama, Japan) on 7 May 2008 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

"If one knows himself and knows what the world is he will merely wish for quiet and be pleased when he has nothing to grieve about, wanting nothing and caring for nobody."
(quotation from The Ten Foot Square Hut, the Japanese classic "HOJOKI")

Nikon E5700
1/189 second
F/5.4
ISO 100
78 mm (35mm equiv.)

rhododendron
may-flowers