{"id":78118,"date":"2024-03-07T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=78118"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:06:29","slug":"okame-cherry-tree-portraits-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/okame-cherry-tree-portraits-hangout\/","title":{"rendered":"Okame Cherry Tree Portraits + Hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Model: Chau | Gear: Sony + Canon Lens \/ Canon + Nikon Lens (yes both setups manual focus on purpose)<\/p>\n

These okame cherry trees are the first to bloom in Georgia.\u00a0 Sometimes as early as the first week in February, when it’s still pretty cold.\u00a0 There used to be a more purple one on the main street in the neighborhood, but sadly they cut it down.\u00a0 (In fact they cut down a bunch of yoshino cherry trees ages ago and it still makes me mad)\u00a0 The okames are always a good marker of the coming spring, and that I should bug someone to hangout and take photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Model: Chau | Gear: Sony + Canon Lens \/ Canon + Nikon Lens (yes both setups manual focus on purpose) These okame cherry trees are the first to bloom in Georgia.\u00a0 Sometimes as early as the first week in February, when it’s still pretty cold.\u00a0 There used to be a more purple one on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123,295,173,37,170,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-78118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-bokeh","9":"tag-canon","10":"tag-color","11":"tag-nikon","12":"tag-portraits","13":"tag-sony","15":"post-with-thumbnail","16":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Spring-in-Georgia-Canon-Sony-Nikon-FF-001_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-kjY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101559,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/nikon-200mm-f-2g-vr-spring-blossoms-and-portraits\/","url_meta":{"origin":78118,"position":0},"title":"Nikon 200mm f\/2G VR – Spring Blossoms and Portraits","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"April 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"What an outrageous combo the D700 and 200mm f\/2 is! 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