Japan and Düsseldorf
Somehow, it happened that the city I moved 3 years ago has a significant presence of Asian and especially Japanese culture. We have a special Japan day every year when the city center gets full of people from many places to celebrate Japanese culture, eat Asian food, and wear anime-style costumes.
One day, we decided to visit a center of Japanese culture because it has a beautiful traditional garden. And what can be better for the green colors of this garden than the famous Fuji C200 film?
Right in the middle of what seemed to be the usual neighborhood, there was this beautiful place with plants everywhere and a calm silent atmosphere. It also reminded me of a Lego tranquil garden set. But expanded and alive.
This center has many events happening inside, including tea ceremonies, and even a kindergarten. In such a nice place you start thinking and being curious about the culture that puts many thoughts and meanings in this art.
The film
I took my camera with this film to more places during this and the next day. Before getting the film, I wasn’t actually thinking that this film would be so much different from Kodak Gold, I already shot in Thailand, Dubai, and Copenhagen. But seems I was wrong. Don’t know if it is for good or not. This film is more complicated to get. But I liked it much more. It is not that warm and brings more natural yet more than enough saturated colors. I already have a faster version of this film, but reading news and rumors about Fujifilm discontinuing film stocks… Probably should get a couple more of those while they are still around.
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