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This is a Yukimi lantern in the Japanese Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It is designed to collect falling snow on the roof which creates beautiful patterns.
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We will be taking a photo a day in 2009. The themes for the photographs and the guidlines are listed below. There is also a list of the photographers participating. You may visit their sites as well. Hope you will stop back often and share in my photographic journey. Enjoy!! Your comments are greatly appreciated.
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Always wondered what those lanterns were for. I thought they were for religious purposes not decorative works of art. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteNice picture for this theme, where concrete or cement are such hard surfaces, your photo shows a softness and peacefulness.
ReplyDeleteWe have one of those at our gardens too, I never knew it's purpose! Nice image!
ReplyDeleteWe have a Japanese garden in town...I wonder if we have one of these? Nice photo!
ReplyDeletePretty lantern, not the typical concrete or cement image. The colors are very nice.
ReplyDeleteLove the graceful lines and sculptural feeling of this beautiful lantern, expecially with the water as the background. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteLovley shape of this!
ReplyDeleteI agree with tterlyn your photo shows a softness and peacefulness :)
I love these lanterns in the gardens. Beautiful shot.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful thing. I would love to see it with snow on the top.
ReplyDeleteSeeing how the Japanese word for snow is yuki,it all makes sense to me now! : ) Beautiful hand-carved detail on this lantern.
ReplyDeleteI have thought about this theme and could not come up with anything, but you have captured it perfectly. Thanks for the description.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely and serene shot, nice to learn some of the language of Japanese lanterns. Yet another reason to enjoy this challenge.
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