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2017 Japan Winter Wildlife
Field notes, tour reports, and photography guides tagged with this topic.
Apr 1, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Seagulls in Rausu
Greetings from Tokyo, Japan! I’m posting this just at the start of my 2017 Cherry Blossom tour of Japan and glad I could finish the report from the 2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan before the cherry blossom tour goes into full swing! The last stop for or photography tour of Japan was Rausu, Hokkaido. [...]
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Mar 29, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Steller’s Sea Eagles Catching Fish
Even with subfreezing temperatures and early morning starts on a boat, our small group of photographers touring Japan was having a great time in Rausu. The Steller’s Sea Eagles were not disappointing at all and whether hanging out or flying through the sky, the eagles provided ample photographic opportunities for our guided tour of Japan’s [...]
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Mar 26, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Steller’s Sea Eagles Flying
Spending a few days in Rausu to photograph the Steller’s Sea Eagles was an amazing experience! Our Winter tour of Japan was coming to an end but our small group of photographers was determined to make the most of our time with these amazing birds. Everyone came back with many photographs of the eagles and [...]
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Mar 23, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Short Video With Olympus OMD EM1 Mark II
I’ve been a Nikon guy since my first photography class in 1998. First was film but quickly switched over to digital and never looked back but now it’s time to look forward. Mirrorless cameras have been around for a while but the technology is now reaching a point that I believe is similar to when [...]
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Mar 21, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Steller’s Sea Eagles Watching Steller’s Sea Eagles
The last stop for our Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan was the northeast of Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido. Just outside of Shiretoko National Park is the small port town of Rausu where many Steller’s Sea Eagles can be found. Similar to the red-crowned cranes of Kushiro, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from [...]
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Mar 18, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Whooper Swans of Lake Kussharo
The 2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan was going great even with every day being well below freezing! After spending a few days photographing Japanese Snow Monkeys and then the Japanese Red-Crowned Crane, the group travelled to Lake Kussharo to photograph the Whooper Swans. The few swans I’ve encountered in my past haven’t always come across [...]
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Mar 17, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Artistic Red-Crowned Cranes
The 2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan stayed in Kushiro for a few days to photograph the Japanese red-crowned crane. Kushiro is located on Japan’s northern most island, Hokkaido and as it was peak Winter season, after 2 days of photographing these beautiful cranes in the cold, windy weather, I needed to change something up. [...]
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Mar 16, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Dancing Red-Crowned Cranes
Photographing the the Japanese red-crowned crane in flight was interesting but after a short time with the cranes in Kushiro, I really was enjoying their dance moves more than their flight patterns! There are a few different locations to photograph the red-crowned Japanese crane that having feeding times and it seemed the cranes were most [...]
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Mar 15, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Red-Crowned Cranes
After a great few days with the snow monkeys in Jigokudani, Nagano Prefecture, our 2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan would continue on to Japan’s northern most island, Hokkaido. Our first stop was in Kushiro to photograph the red-crowned crane, also known as Japanese crane or Manchurian crane. While I had a good idea how I [...]
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Mar 13, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Snow Monkey Business
Spending three days with the Japanese Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani in Nagano, Japan was a great experience. We arrived just after a significant snow storm so there was plenty of fresh snow. We had mostly overcast weather and though we had a few short snow flurries, kind of wished we had a little more snow [...]
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Mar 12, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Snow Monkey Family Portraits
Still in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, the 2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan had us spending three days with Japanese Snow Monkeys. This is post 2 from my time with the monkeys in the onsen where I wanted to share family portraits of the snow monkeys. As a portrait photographer first I shared some [...]
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Mar 11, 2017
2017 Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan | Snow Monkey Portraits
In collaboration with Magic Is Photo Safaris, I escorted a small group of wildlife photographers for a Winter Wildlife Tour of Japan in search of Japanese Snow Monkeys, Red Crowned Crane, Swan, Steller’s Sea Eagles and whatever else we could find! You can see all the posts (though you are currently on the first one) [...]
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