Shibuya Pond｜The Sound of Wind-Swayed Leaves

Year 2025July 2025JulyShinobazu PondTokyo Metropolitan areaVarious Scenerywind chime
A refreshing scene captured at Shinobazu Pond, with the entire wind chime display photographed from a low angle to show its full expanse.
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This photograph was taken at Shinobazu Pond, framing the wind chime display broadly from a low angle. The transparent wind chimes swaying in the breeze and the expansive natural scenery beyond evoke the coolness of summer. If you carry a camera in Ueno during summer, Shinobazu Pond will quietly yet surely beckon you.In the morning hours, lotus flowers bloom as if floating on the pond's surface, radiating a serene stillness as if time itself has paused. Their pale pink petals quietly shimmer in the morning light.Rise just a little earlier to capture the soft light filtering through half-open lotus buds, and you'll likely encounter a frame that touches the very breath of nature. In one corner of the pond, a wind chime display seems to visualize the summer breeze itself; each swaying movement traces the season's contours with a gentle, cool sound.The vermilion-lacquered Benten Hall, a sea of flowers, and the lingering echo of the crystal-clear wind chimes—when these overlap, it becomes another photograph like a poem. You may choose to crop the stillness dwelling within the flowers with a telephoto lens, or capture the sky, pond, and prayer hall within the frame with a wide-angle lens. Here lies a summer morning where sound, light, color, and heart quietly intertwine.