Japan Winter
Photographic Tour
Photographers Robert van Koesveld and Daisuke Kondo invite you join them in 2025 for a journey through the unique Winter landscapes of Hokkaido in northern Japan. With a small photography tour size, you will be inspired to create images that reflect the poetic beauty of farmlands, mountains and hills under snow…
The symmetry of the flatlands Hokkaido from Winter photo tour
Firewood stored for Hokkaido's long winter
The drama of snow covered fields from Winter photo tour
Winter has blanketed this bus in Hokkaido from Winter photo tour
Whooper swans enjoying the spring warmed lake edges In Hokkaido Japan from Winter photo tour
The sun pushing through the morning mistfrom Winter photo tour
A landscape with Japanese red-crowned cranes in Hokkaido Japan
Japan ⁘ Winter 2025
Hokkaido Intensive
Jan 24 – Feb 5
Moving to the coast we will marvel at the sea ice and sculptural shore protection. Visiting inland lakes, we look for elegant environmental images of the famous red-crowned Japanese cranes and whooper swans. Your creativity will be well supported by coaching, teaching and conversation.
Highlights
An inspiring variety of winter landscapes – forests,
farmlands, windbreaks, gorges, waterfalls, mountains,
seashore, lakes and those poetic lone trees in the snow.
Creative focus for your images drawing on your own style. Find your response to this white world and make images that express your vision.
Spend time with whooper swans and Japanese cranes and make portraits or landscapes of these elegant creatures in their environment.
Time to review your images as you go, consider your purposes and methods, all with access to two photography coaches, whose priority is your creativity.
Maximum time in the field is assured because of the carefully researched routes and itineraries for this small group.
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