Tag Archives: Wilderness

Searching for a More Benign Dystopia

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

There is a long history of activist photographers championing the preservation of the environment.  In Australia, Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis produced images showing Tasmanian wilderness under threat in association with the Tasmanian Wilderness Society.  For that matter, in the … Continue reading →

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29th February: Nikko – Kanman Path

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

The morning of my last day in Japan…. The owner of the ryokan (accompanied by his collie) is shoveling snow from the pavement behind my rental car.  This was the coldest day with heavy snow falls that winter, or for … Continue reading →

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28th February: Nikko – Nihon Romantic Highway

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

I continued towards Lake Yunoko along the curiously-named Nihon Romantic Highway.  The two images above show views across the Senjogahara Plateau,  which is a swampy floodplain when not covered in snow. Some kilometres further on, this is Yudaki Falls, which … Continue reading →

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24th February: Hokkaido – Shiretoko National Park (Day 2)

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

This is a view of Utoro from my hotel window on my last day in Hokkaido, very early in the morning. The plane was to leave in the middle of the day but first we made the most of the … Continue reading →

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23rd February: Hokkaido – Shiretoko National Park

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

After dropping our stuff off at the Utoro hotel and lunch, we headed further along the coast past the ice clogging the sea shore, towards Shiretoko National Park and Furepe Falls. This is Furepe Falls, an entirely frozen waterfall with … Continue reading →

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23rd February: Hokkaido – Oshin-Koshin Falls

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

We drove along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, heading towards Utoro, where we would spend the night.  Floating and beached ice lined the shore. We stopped at Oshin-Koshin Waterfall, beside the highway.  This is an Ainu name, meaning … Continue reading →

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14th February: Nagano – Snow monkeys (Day 2)

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

After photographing the landscape and the serow (see previous post), I turned my attention to the macaques in their hot pool. Macaques and their reflections through the heat haze of the hot pool. A clearer shot with wind blowing the … Continue reading →

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13th February: Nagano – Snow Monkeys

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

The previous post was walking in and walking back so here we are at the famous hot pool frequented by the “snow monkeys”. Hot and steamy…. The monkeys are in fact Japanese Macaques and are the most northerly-living primates apart … Continue reading →

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