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Japanese Crane
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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 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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