Autumn Whispers at Koishikawa Botanical Garden with the Nikon D610
As I feel autumn deepening day by day, I visited the Koishikawa Botanical Garden this time to capture the early signs of autumn. In the garden, the autumn leaves had just begun to show a subtle hint of color. The ginkgo and London plane trees are also starting to turn yellow, and I imagine the autumn hues will deepen more and more with each passing day. As a facility of the University of Tokyo, this botanical garden is the birthplace of modern botany in Japan and continues to serve as an active site for botanical research. Spending about three hours allows you to leisurely enjoy and photograph the main gate, the autumn foliage avenue, the Japanese garden, and the greenhouses. While the red maples still have some way to go, giant trees such as the London plane and tulip trees, along with the historical ginkgo tree where plant spermatozoa were discovered, were turning a beautiful yellow. Inside the greenhouse, plants like the West Indian jasmine (Ixora) were also blooming with lovel...