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![[Image1]Crystals of light dancing in Taisho-era romance■LocationGinzan Onsen, Yamagata Prefecture■Background](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/7ccd06154ca38ddc0ba1f529610267e6c91594f9.jpg)
Crystals of light dancing in Taisho-era romance
■Location
Ginzan Onsen, Yamagata Prefecture
■Background and thoughts behind the work
Ginzan Onsen sits quietly in the deep mountains of Yamagata. On a night when snow piled softly on the streets steeped in Taisho-era romance, I attempted something for the first time.
I used the built-in flash to capture the “expressions of snow invisible to the eye.” Until then I had cherished natural light, but that evening I felt a strong urge to make each drifting snowflake shine like a jewel.
The instant the flash fired, pure white snow crystals appeared against the dark, and the warm orange glow of the gas lamps contrasting with the cold snow created a dreamlike scene. In the subzero cold I kept shooting until my fingertips went numb, and when I saw the glittering snow on the preview screen, I felt an indescribable emotion.
Through my first strobe shoot, I rediscovered the beauty of movement dwelling within frozen time. This photograph is an unforgettable and precious image for me.
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![[Image1]Winter silence reflected in a circular window■Shooting locationKiyotsu Gorge Tunnel](https://img.cooljapan-videos.com/files/member_posts/image/270e2f312dbbdbe99ccc085ad564846203516db3.jpg)
Winter silence reflected in a circular window
■Shooting location
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel "Light Cave", Niigata Prefecture
■Background and thoughts behind the work
I have long been deeply interested in contemporary architecture and geometric form, and I wanted to capture this space by architect Ma Yansong through my own lens.
In the severe cold of February, a silver world spread beyond the tunnel. What I aimed to express in this image was the contrast between the clinical stainless steel walls, the rugged snow-covered mountains of nature, and the water-mirror that blurs the boundary between them.
I paid particular attention to the placement of the figure and the balance of symmetry. In the quiet, blue space, a single human step adds a moment when a "story" is born within frozen time. My fingertips felt numb in the subzero air, but when the perfect circle and its reflection aligned through the viewfinder, I felt an indescribable exhilaration.
This photograph is a precious memory from a winter trip that closed my study abroad life in Japan, taken while confronting my own sensibility.
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