A simple shot of wooden tablets at a temple in Kamakura.
Normally this is a very boring scene, but I believe the camera shake gives it a little bit more mystery, making for a much more interesting photograph.

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One of the torii gates at Hakone shrine. I like how the ICM technique turned a single gate into a thousand.
I believe this help symbolizing the path towards spirituality that people go through at the temple.

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This image is an experiment of multiple exposure in camera, and how to show the passing of time on a static subject.
I chose this statue because of its character, and the way it stood still against the sky.
By shooting multiple images of it at different angles and putting them together in camera I wanted to show movement, and how everything around us changes continuously.
If you look carefully enough, nothing stays still, everything moves as you move as an observer.

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I mainly shoot landscape images, but when I am on location I like to visit the local shrines and temples to get inspiration from Japan’s traditional architecture and spirituality.
This particular scene here is from a small temple in Shiga prefecture that had a beautiful pond with lots of colorful carps.
I tried to capture the motion of the fish in the water and turn it into something more abstract and painterly-like.

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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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