Escape into Silicon Valley's most successful time machine
I like to visit nearby Hakone Estate and Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. The garden was open at night recently for Hanami, the Japanese tradition to view the cherry blossoms. I took a photo of the stone garden, also called dry garden at twilight. The white gravel is raked in circular patterns to give the appearance of waves around the rocks.
-- ƒ/8.0, 16 mm, 1/10, 1/40, 0.4 sec, ISO 1600, Sony A6400, SEL-P1650, HDR, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2025 Peter Thoeny, @Quality HDR Photography
Escape into Silicon Valley's most successful time machine
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2025 Peter Thoeny, QualityHDR.com
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