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Mika visits a riverside park with her photography-club friends on Saturday.
N4 graded Japanese story
写真部の曇り空
Mika expects bright autumn photographs, but a gray day teaches her to notice reflections, wet textures, and gentler colors.
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Mika had planned to photograph sunlight visible between red and yellow leaves.
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However, the morning sky is completely gray.
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The leaves look darker than she expected.
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Mika says, "There is nothing to photograph."
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One friend notices a puddle beside the path.
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Buildings and yellow leaves appear upside down in it.
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Mika lowers her camera close to the ground.
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Her own shoe accidentally ends up in the first picture.
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She changes position and tries taking it again.
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When a bicycle passes, the reflected scene in the water shakes.
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Mika waits until the water becomes still.
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She photographs only the reflection, keeping the sky itself out.
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The three begin looking for other quiet details too.
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They find wet bark, shining railings, and dark stones.
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Mika takes fewer pictures and observes more carefully than before.
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At school, each club member displays one photograph.
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Mika chooses the puddle reflecting the yellow leaves.
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Her teacher says, "The cloudy light made the colors gentle."
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Mika writes in her notebook that cloudy days are also chances to take photographs.