Free axes of ume tree

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• Photographer
  Yuko Nakane, Japan

Branches of ume tree are too free, and entertaining.
They have various form (straight lines, or curve, thick, slender… in all directions).
Even though the wind didn't blow, these form looked like blown by the wind.
It was fun for me to look at their free form.

I think that everything is changeable.
This thought is perhaps "mujo views" that I cultivate in Japanese culture.
Therefore I feel happy about there are no absolute rules in this world.

So when I saw these free branches, I was pleased that it looked like gravity didn't apply
to the ume tree.
"In spite of being under my eyes, the ume tree lives in the world which have another time
axis and spatial axis."
It was my entertainment to feel such wonder atmosphere.

By taking photos to extract free lines of branches, I expressed the ume trees be in their
own world.

Awards 『Nature's Best Photography Japan 2013』　fine work