Sakura circuits

So after getting a sense of gradually becoming creatively bankrupt (I had no idea what to do description/name wise about my last post), I began to try to look for a new angle. I ended up stumbling upon the works of Liam Wong, and his stellar edits. He's a game designer that takes Tokyo night shots, and boy does he have a vivid imagination. So I thought about what I could edit to be a little bit more like his futuristic shots.

I had yet to upload a shot from this location after all this time so I figured with this new inspiration I could do this. The word "circuit" in the name could translate to electricity and a race cause both fit the intended context of this composition. Sakura street in Shibuya has it's own lighting event that requires event staff to control foot traffic like Meguro River's sakura lighting. Most images have a wall of paper lanterns along the roadside, but this year they moved it closer to the main road where it proved far more frustrating to attempt to shoot. It didn't take long before I realized I shouldn't compress the street cause I was shooting from the side and had a lot to work with, so I put away the 200mm and began experimenting with the regular wide angle. I circled this street twice and settled for this angle. When no cars were coming by I took the capture. Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to make the signs more visible beyond their illumination so I just lowered it's highlights to help people not see it. The subject is the street itself and the trees. The trees were more pink than purple initially, but like I said, I had a clear vision for this one, I needed more vibrancy. Maybe posting 6 days a week is starting to get to me at this point, cause I'm genuinely running out things to talk about, not just about Japan, in general. I need to reignite my own imagination as that's the primary reason why I enjoy doing this.

Done