In June 2004, I've visited to Amidaji Temple in Hofu-city, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Kohtoku-ji Temple in Sera-town, Hiroshima Prefecture. Both temples are famous for hydrangea. I expected rainy weather for gentle light and noble scenery, but unfortunately it was very fine day and sunlight gave me very high contrast subjects. So I looked for flowers in shadow to avoid too high contrast on the flowers.
I mainly picked up soft images to enhance nobleness of hydrangea with utilization of soft lens, dual exposure technique or bokeh control. Please enjoy KEN's world of photographs with those.

Those are of typical KEN's style. I'm intending to lender a scene of dream with gentle light and faint bokeh.

I think colors of hydrangea are very close to those of ancient Japanese graceful colors, used in vintage Kimono (Japanese old formal dress).  I wanted to emphasize graceful colors rather than shape of flowers in these photos.

I took these photos with relatively normal point of views unlike those above. Resultantly, group of flowers or water drops are the main cast of the photos shown here.