Today I'm going to walk you through the second set of ten photos from my second Winter Wonderland Tour for 2014, to complete this two part travelogue series. Still troubled by record level snow falls, we were lucky this time to have arrived in Rausu just as the roads...
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Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #2 2014 Part 1 (Podcast 412)
Today I'm going to walk you through 10 photos from my second Winter Wonderland Tour for 2014, in the first of what will be a two part series. Although we didn't have much snow in Hokkaido at the start of Tour #1, record snow falls in Nagano got us off to a slow start,...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #1 2014 Part 2 (Podcast 410)
Today we pick up the trail with five days left, on the first of my two Japan Winter Wonderland Tours for 2014. We start on the last morning photographing the Whooper Swans at Kussharo Lake, before leaving town for an hour at Sulphur Mountain and then start to drive...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #1 2014 Part 1 (Podcast 409)
After an incredibly busy and exciting February, I'm now back from my Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wonderland tours, and from today will release a series of episodes to update you on how both trips went. First I've selected 22 images from Tour #1 which ran from...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido with David duChemin (Podcast 362)
I usually record an update after returning from the Snow Monkeys and Hokkaido tour each year, and insert a recording from the bus on the last day of each trip as well as my own reflections on our trip. For Tour #2 this year though, we were lucky enough to be joined by...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido 2013 Tour #1 in Brief (Podcast 360)
Having just returned from the first of our two 2013 Snow Monkey & Hokkaido, Winter Wonderland Tours, today I'm going to update you on how things went, and show you my top seven images, as well as play a message from the group that we recorded on the last day...
Episode 327 : 2012 Snow Monkey & Hokkaido Tour/Workshop #2
From Feb 13 to 24, 2012, we took a group of photographers to Nagano to photograph the amazing Snow Monkeys for three days, and then on to Hokkaido for a further nine days for my Winter Wildlife Wonderland tour here in Japan. Last week we looked at some of my images...
Podcast 326 : 2012 Snow Monkey & Hokkaido Tour/Workshop #1
From Feb 13 to 24, 2012, we took a group of photographers to Nagano to photograph the amazing Snow Monkeys for three days, and then on to Hokkaido for a further nine days. This was the fifth iteration of my now very popular Winter Wildlife Wonderland tour here in...
Podcast 318 : Martin’s Top Ten Images from 2011
Having skipped selecting my 2010 Top Ten images at the start of 2011, because I was simply too busy, I really missed going through the exercise, so this year, I was sure to make time to reflect on 2011, and select my favorite images. The act of looking through a year...
Ideal Exposure in the Winter Wonderland
Here are the two images that I talk about in Chris Marquardt's Tips From the Top Floor Podcast this week. I talked about techniques I use and teach on my Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop, to control exposure and ensure you capture beautiful...
Podcast 307 : New 2012 Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wildlife Wonderland Tours
This is actually Chris Marquardt's Tips from the Top Floor, episode 524. Today basically I inserted a thirty minute chat between Chris and I as we've teamed up to bring you two new Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wildlife Wonderland Tours. I've recently asked Chris to...
Podcast 283 : Blakiston’s Fish Owl Feeding (Video)
Here's a short video that I shot on Feb 1, 2011, of a Blakiston's Fish Owl Feeding in the town of Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan. The pool from which the owl feeds is rocks covered with snow. The rocks were put there by locals, and they drop fish into the pool each night to...