Last week, I completed a 12 day Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure with special guest David duChemin and 13 other amazing photographers. This was the first landscape only tour that I've done in Hokkaido, and we had a pretty amazing time, so from today I'm...
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Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #2 2014 Part 2 (Podcast 413)
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...
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...
Tsukiji Fish Market (Podcast 331)
Last week, I visited the Tsukiji Fish Market here in Tokyo with Scott Jarvie, and had a wonderful morning shooting around the market, and so today I'm going to share some of my experiences and photos with you, with some advice for shooting there yourself interwoven,...
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...
The Nature of Japan Slideshow Version 3 (Podcast 188)
My nature photography portfolio in a 54 image slideshow with music. Make sure you have your speakers turned up and go fullscreen! http://vimeo.com/6604520 Video Subscribe in iTunes for Enhanced Podcasts delivered automatically to your computer. Download...
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2009 #5 (Podcast 184)
So, today is the last in our multi-episode series to walk you through the 2009 Winter Wonderland Workshop, from February 16th to the 24th, 2009. We pick up the trail on the morning of the 23rd, when we visited a blue waterfall and had a brief excursion to heaven, then...
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2009 #4 (Podcast 183)
Today we are going to continue to our multi-episode look at the results of the 2009 Winter Wonderland Workshop. I lead the nine day tour around central and eastern Hokkaido, the northern-most island of Japan, from February 16th to the 24th, 2009. The tour is formatted...
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2009 #2 (Podcast 179)
Carrying on from last week, today we are going to take a look at some more photos from the 2009 Hokkaido Workshop and Photography Tour, affectionately known as the Winter Wonderland Workshop. It’s slow going, as we do a lot on the trip, and today we’re going to get...
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2009 #1 (Podcast 178)
This week we start a multiple episodes series to walk you through the February 2009 Hokkaido Workshop and Photography Tour. As I mentioned last week, the workshop went very well again, with a few things that didn't go according to plan, but most which did were great...
Nikko Part I – Waterfalls, Waterfalls… (Podcast 40)
Much of the Nikko area in Tochigi Prefecture, a few hours drive north of Tokyo, is perched high in the mountains, and for obvious reasons, is very close to the Japanese people’s hearts. Nikko is the synergy of Culture and Nature. Next week we’ll be looking more into...