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Was driving around this morning location scouting and saw these amazing flowering apricot trees. In the dead Rite Aid across from Atlanta Toyota on Pleasant Hill! These trees have seen better days, but still so pretty.\u00a0 It’s crazy how there’s not a single leaf on those branches and are just pure blossoms.<\/p>\n

From my recon, the okame cherry trees still have buds and I found literally one single pink flower in bloom, so they are on their way.\u00a0 I don’t know what the unseasonably warm weather this Feb will do to their duration, but hopefully I can use them later this month for shoots.\u00a0 Oddly enough though, some of the yoshino cherry trees are getting to almost peak right now.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using the old and unwanted Nikon D40 lately, and guys seriously, it’s a great early gen CCD DSLR with probably some of the best color out there.\u00a0 It’s obviously slow for event photography, but it’s faster than almost all point and shoot film cameras that’s for sure.\u00a0 Many of the pictures are tuned in camera with no editing.\u00a0 That was back when the world didn’t cash in on film simulations. And oh the special ability of this camera is that it works at 1\/500 sec with the popup flash. That means you can really darken the background and sky in casual film like photos where you want the direct flash to be the main star in addition to your subject.\u00a0 Folks have already snatched up digicams, soon they’ll come for old DSLRs.<\/p>\n

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I wish Gwinnett had planted a lot of these old fruit trees in random parks and woods back in the day.\u00a0 But now they’re just random pretty things that only get about a week or two to shine while the rest of the commuting world could care less about as they drive on by.<\/p>\n

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Was driving around this morning location scouting and saw these amazing flowering apricot trees. In the dead Rite Aid across from Atlanta Toyota on Pleasant Hill! These trees have seen better days, but still so pretty.\u00a0 It’s crazy how there’s not a single leaf on those branches and are just pure blossoms. From my recon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97862,"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":[173,37,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-97868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-color","9":"tag-nikon","10":"tag-spring","12":"post-with-thumbnail","13":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Flowering-Urban-Apricot-Tree-2025-02-06-001-Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-psw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46820,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photo-hangout-norcross-cherry-trees-2022-02-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":97868,"position":0},"title":"Photo Hangout: Norcross Cherry Trees – 2022-02-21","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"February 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Claudia, Byung, and Jazz for coming out to take pictures with the flowering okame cherry trees in downtown Norcross.\u00a0 The petals don't last long so I'm definitely glad when I can get a shoot in during peak colors. 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