Just back from our Hokkaido Landscape Photography Tour for 2016, this week we start a three part travelogue series to walk you through the tour with a total of 36 images. We start the tour with with an early flight to Hokkaido, following a night at a hotel at the...
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Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure 2015 #2 (Podcast 458)
Following on from last week, today I walk you through the second half of my Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure, a new tour that I just completed with special guest David duChemin and a group of incredibly talented photographers. We pick up the trail on January...
Hokkaido Landscape Photography Adventure 2015 #1 (Podcast 457)
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...
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,...
Podcast 282 : Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Tour 2011 # 3
From February 13 to 24, 2011, I held my fourth Winter Wonderland Workshop, and after shooting the Snow Monkeys in Nagano for three days, which we looked at in Episode 279, we jumped onto a plane and made our way up to Hokkaido for a further nine days. Last week in...
Podcast 281 : Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Tour 2011 # 2
From February 13 to 24, 2011, I held my fourth Winter Wonderland Workshop, and after shooting the Snow Monkeys in Nagano for three days, which we looked at in Episode 279, we jumped onto a plane and made our way up to the northern island of Japan, Hokkaido. We were...
Hokkaido Landscape Tour Reconnaissance Trip
This post is going to be a living document for a few weeks, depending on how much time, energy and connectivity I have. I've come up to Hokkaido, where I run my winter tours, for a 12 day trip with the first half being a reconnaissance trip for a possible new...
Bitter-Sweet Feelings for an Old iPhone Photo
When I go out shooting, I usually put my memory card into my Lexar FireWire 800 card reader as soon as I walk in the door, and start my download. If I'm coming home from an extended trip, the images will be on hard drives etc. but still, the first thing I do before I...
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...