I’m addicted to long exposure photography, and most of the times I don’t like to include “living” elements in my images: in this case I made an exception. I was shooting the waves at the beach in Abashiri during a very calm morning, and there were hundreds of seagulls feeding by the beach. I thought they would complement the scene in a really nice way, but I didn’t want them to be too much recognizable, but simplify them into lines and shapes. The long exposure, combined with the compression of my telephoto lens, really helped here in making the wave very prominent, blur the birds into lines and give an overall 2D element to the frame.

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The biggest reason why I love seascape photography is that you never get the same image twice. The sea is constantly moving, and it shapes the landscape in a unique way moment after moment. On this cold morning I was shooting at the beach in Abashiri, fresh snow was covering the black sand, and huge strong waves from the sea of Okhotsk were crushing on the shore. All these movement created beautiful layers of whites and blacks throughout the frame, a great example of the amazing natural symmetry I always try to capture with my photography.

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I love fern. I really don’t know why, but I do. It must be the shape of its leaves, the way they balance each other so nicely, the way they look from really close up, and their will to live. Fern leaves grow everywhere, in the woods and in the city, among rocks, in the hot and in the cold. I tried to capture their always changing shape and their strength with a multiple exposure, hopefully managing to show how dynamic a leaf can be. There’s a whole world inside a single leaf.

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Hokkaido is a very vast region. You can drive for hours in the middle of beautiful and green hills. It’ vert relaxing especially in Winter, when snow covers all the landscape turning everything into a white canvas, where trees stand like brushstrokes on paper. Sometimes you are just wandering around and all of a sudden stumble upon beautiful scenes like this one. Eighteen beautiful trees all lined up together perfectly in an otherwise totally white landscape, just next to the road. I could not resist making an image of this unknown, yet stunning trees which I’ll probably never see again in my life.

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This is the famous Shirahige shrine torii gate, standing near the shore over lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture. I wanted to visit this particular place for so many years now, and I finally had a chance during a week-long trip I made in the area in Winter. This image looks really peaceful, but unfortunately the place is so famous that it was flooded with tourists, visiting for the New Year. I spent the night in my car a few meters away and positioned myself two hours before sunrise to be able to sit in the exact position I wanted, and even if I was starving and freezing on that morning the conditions were perfect and I was able to make exactly the image I had in my mind. This is something very uncommon in landscape photography, and because of that this image holds a special place in my heart.

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