✨🌌 Happy Tanabata! 七夕！ 🌌✨

令和7年7月7日
Today, we celebrate Tanabata, also known as the Star Festival, a beautiful tradition in Japan that honors the legendary meeting of two lovers—Orihime (the weaver star Vega) and Hikoboshi (the cowherd star Altair)—who are allowed to meet once a year on the 7th day of the 7th month. 🌠

According to the tale, the Milky Way separates the two, and they can only reunite when the skies are clear on this special night. 💫

People celebrate by writing their wishes on colorful strips of paper called tanzaku and hanging them on bamboo branches, hoping for dreams to come true. 🎋💭

Whether you’re making a wish or simply enjoying the stars tonight, may your hopes shine brightly. 🌟

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🌾✨ When light breaks through…

Driving through the open stretches of Rwanda’s eastern plains, the clouds shifted and let loose these gentle beams of light, soft, diffused, and almost celestial. It was one of those unexpected quiet moments where nature simply stops you.

No roaring wildlife this time. Just the wind in the grass, a distant bird in the sky, and the soft hush of an afternoon sky opening above the hills.

📍 Eastern Province, Rwanda
📸 Nikon Z6 | Nikkor Z 24–200mm | 1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 400 | @ 76mm

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🦌✨ In the heart of Akagera, this regal male impala stood quietly just long enough for me to capture this moment. His stillness in the tall green grass, the afternoon sun casting golden warmth across his coat—it was a brief pause in the wilderness that felt timeless.

📍 Akagera National Park, Rwanda
📸 Nikon Z6 | Nikkor Z 24–200mm @ 130mm | 1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 1250

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Little feet, big journey. 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥
A red-necked spurfowl leads her tiny flock safely across a dirt track in Akagera National Park. Watching them hustle in perfect formation was one of those small but unforgettable safari moments.

📍 Akagera National Park, Rwanda
📸 Nikon Z6 + Nikkor Z 24–200mm
1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 640 | 200mm

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Up close with the bold beauty of Akagera. 🦓
Zebras wear their uniqueness proudly—no two stripe patterns are alike. I could spend hours admiring their quiet confidence and striking contrast against the golden grasslands.

📍 Akagera National Park, Rwanda
📸 Nikon Z6 + Nikkor Z 24–200mm
1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 1250 | 103mm

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🦓 Quiet power.
There’s something timeless about a zebra in profile—every stripe a fingerprint of the wild.

This moment was captured under the mid-morning sun in Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The zebra paused just long enough to give me this side-glance before it disappeared back into the golden grass.

📍 Akagera National Park, Rwanda
📸 Nikon Z6 | NIKKOR Z 24–200mm @ 200mm
⚙️ 1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 720

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🦓 Bold. Beautiful. Wild.
Every stripe tells a story in the grasslands of Akagera National Park, Rwanda.
This close-up moment with a zebra was a reminder of how nature paints with precision and purpose.

📍 Akagera National Park, Rwanda
📷 Nikon Z6 + NIKKOR Z 24–200mm @ 200mm
⚙️ 1/1000 sec | f/11 | ISO 720

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