KATAKURI, Dog's tooth violet, in full bloom @Nagano

I visited the place with my friend where we can see a big clump of Katakuri, dog's tooth violet, in Nagano city last Sunday. It is at the foot of Mt. Asahi in Nagano, and famous spot for who know that.

They are very beautiful in full bloom early April every year, and so they are last weekend.

The flower of Katakuri blooms facing downward so it's sometimes difficult to take a nice picture of them. I could finally find the best one and took some photos with my old single lens reflex film camera. I could take some nice photos as below. How do you think?




I must add that the title back image of this blog is the photo I took last year at the same spot.