Friday 2 November 2012

Autumn 2012 Kimono de Jack NL at the Japanese Garden near The Hague.

Sunday October 21st the Kimono de Jack NL aka KDJ Holland visited the Japanese garden at the Clingendael park near The Hague.
The Japanese garden is only open to the public twice a year for a few short weeks and with autumn colouring the leaves , what better occasion for our members to wear their beloved kimonos ?

(as always , click on the pictures to see a larger version that opens in a separate window )


Despite the light rain and cloudy weather , many KDJ NL members showed up for the occasion : From left to right : Jody, Mei-Ing, Dalisha, Youandi, Ben , Stephanie and Yumiko.


While everyone was waiting for more members to arrive , I took the opportunity to take a few photos. On the left Dalisha , on the right Carolien.


Dalisha's musubi.


Dalisha's bird feather hair ornament.


Youandi , wearing a bright furisode.

A closer view of Youandi's musubi.


As soon as most members arrived , we made our way from the entrance to the garden
On the left, Linda. On the right, Yumiko.


The rain had made the paths through the park rather muddy : the higher your geta, the better for you !


 The bright autumn colours of the garden were just begging to be photographed :
Here is Youandi taking pictures from the bridge.


Of course the bridge is also a nice spot to pose on : Linda


and Jody.


Jody and Youandi posing together. I got them to open up the umbrella for me, because I liked the way the yellow matches the leaves behind it.


Arriving at the central tea house,



where everybody settles down for a pick-nick.


Maaike and Ben from Belgium.


Jody, Yumiko, Linda, Dalisha , Youandi and Carolien. In the background Stephanie and Mei-Ing.


Linda.

Carolien taking a picture of me through the round window of the tea-house .





Amy ( in the red hakama ) and Jeffrey arriving quite fashionably late ^^.


Linda, Dalisha and Mei-Ing, posing behind the round window in the tea-house.



The red leaved tree behind them was a popular spot for posing.
The dark and red colours of Stephanie's kimono go very well with the colour of the autumn leaves and the darkness of the water.


Stephanie's musubi.


Yumiko showing us a trinket of hers.


Yumiko's musubi.


I used a bit of fill in flash for Carolien in her blue kimono here : it makes the background darker and puts more emphasis on the person herself. I think I'll use it more in future.


Carolien's musubi.


Dalisha wearing a purple kimono with wine leaf motif.


Ben and Maaike, who is wearing an orange furisode and green hakama.


Three shades of ochre and orange : Yumiko, Riga and Mei-Ing.


Youandi in her furisode.


Linda wearing a green kimono and posing with her stole :)


And Linda without her stole.


Mei-Ing , wearing an orange kimono and black haori.



Mei-Ings haori.


Amy with a red hakama.


Nice beret, Amy !


Just as I was moving around to get a nice background for Amy when she took her beret off, she flipped her hair out. Got it !


Our traditional KDJ NL tabi shot ( well ,mostly tabi :) 


Everybody posing for the group shot.


Group shot with showing of the sleeves.


Well, everybody posing for the group shot is what I thought , but we had to do it over : Jody and Amy were missing.


The whole group in the picture : the tree at the back was barely wide enough !


Showing off of the sleeves.


Showing of the musubi.




I nearly decided not go to this meeting because of a cold I'd caught, but I'm glad I did : I would have missed out on taking all these pictures. Till next time,everybody !

6 comments:

Linda Kole said...

Splendour photos Walter! I hope you're feeling better again. I was surprised you even came to the meeting. Take good care of yourself and until next meeting (*^-^*)/

Amy said...

I'm happy you came in the end, you did a wonderful job "documenting" everything once again! You really did a great job on making it look as if we were the only ones there, I bet there has been heaps of photoshopping! xd

I think it's amazing of you to travel so far each time, even when you're feeling dreadful! Thank you. : )

Unknown said...

A wonderful mix of informal spontaneous moments and gorgeous posed shots! Great selection and the colours are spectacular!!

Walter said...

Hi Linda and Amy , it's always great fun to meet you all , so I don't mind travelling that far, even when I'm not totally fit :)
As for the photoshopping I always watch the background when taking pictures, most of the time you just wait a bit or move around a bit till people in the background disappear behind your model or a tree. Taking pictures from a low point of view helps too.
And if all that fails and the little annoying lady in the bright red dress keeps standing still behind you, I 'magic her away' ).
Unknown : thanks for the compliment. When you have can take pictures of such lovely ladies, it's not too hard to get great pictures. I still learn something new each time.

Kumiko said...

Amazing photos!
Everyone wears kimono stylishly.
These beautiful kimonos suit them very well.
And this place is so nice!
This is just like real Japanese autumn garden.
Thank you for sharing these fabulous photos!They make me happy:)

godzilla_rabbit said...

Unbelievably beautiful.
Great photos. Thanks!!