Bloom.

Three seasons compressed into three frames.

The famous 600-year-old wisteria at Ashikaga Flower Park, lit at night: the trellis turns the hanging racemes into a huge violet ceiling — the camera stays honest; it can never fully record the feeling of being covered overhead, but it can record the structure.

Looking up into the maples at Eikan-dō at f/2.8, a few leaves sharp and the rest a red field. With a fast enough shutter, wind stacks two or three translucent colour layers as the leaves move.

Last: a bulbul on a sakura branch in Ueno, 85mm, two metres away — three frames and it flew.