This week we conclude our series of four episodes to walk through 40 images from my second Japan Winter Wildlife tour for 2016. Today we visit the Notsuke Peninsula to find an adorable Northern Red Fox, then back to the Seal Eagles, before finishing with a little bit...
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Japan Winter Wildlife 2016 Tour 2 Travelogue #3 (Podcast 517)
This week we continue our series of episodes to walk through 40 images from my second Japan Winter Wildlife tour for 2016, and today we visit the Whooper Swans, Sulphur Mountain and the majestic sea eagles. We pick up the trail on day eight of the tour, which was our...
Japan Winter Wildlife 2016 Tour 2 Travelogue #2 (Podcast 516)
This week we continue to walk through a series of 40 images from my second Japan Winter Wildlife tour for 2016, when we visited the "Sound of Wings" bridge for a second time before moving on to perhaps the best two days with Whooper Swans that I've yet experienced. On...
Snow-less Monkeys – A Summer Visit Travelogue (Podcast 480)
A few weeks ago, I took my new Canon EOS 5Ds R over to the Monkey Park at Jigokudani, where we photograph the Snow Monkeys for the first three days on my Winter Wonderland Tours. This though was the first time I've visited during the summer, so the now Snow-less...
Rick Andrews – Tour Participant Feature (Podcast 467)
Today I feature Rick Andrews, a wildlife photographer from Alberta, Canada, who joined the first of my two Japan Winter Wildlife Tours for 2015. I always do my tour updates with my own photography, but I thought it would make a nice change to see the tour from a...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido 2015 Tour #2 Part 2 (Podcast 462)
This week is the last of a two part series to walk you through a selection of photos from my second Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour for 2015. We pick up the trail on day seven, with one last Whooper Swan photo, before the majestic sea eagles, and a surprise visit...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido 2015 Tour #2 Part 1 (Podcast 461)
This week is the first of a two part series to walk you through a selection of photos from my second Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour for 2015. These tours are in many ways the highlight of my year, so I'm sad to see them finished, but the resulting photos will keep...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido 2015 Tour #1 Part 2 (Podcast 460)
This week we complete our two part series to walk through 24 photos from the first of my two Japan Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido winter wonderland wildlife tours for 2015. As you'll hear today, the weather gave us some unique challenges on this tour, but as usual we...
Canon EOS 7D Mark II First Impressions (Podcast 453)
A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a Canon EOS 7D Mark II, and last week used it to shoot three days with the adorable Snow Monkeys in Nagano, four hours north-west of Tokyo, and I'm now in a position to talk about my first impressions. I'll follow up with a more...
Canon EF 200-400mm F4 L EXT 1.4X Lens Review (Podcast 414)
After many moons, finally here's my Canon EF 200-400mm F4 L EXT 1.4X lens review! As you may recall, I bought this lens back in June 2013, as I was able to get a good deal on some old gear that I sold to pay for it. I've dragged my feet on this review though, because...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #2 2014 Part 2 (Podcast 413)
Today I'm going to walk you through the second set of ten photos from my second Winter Wonderland Tour for 2014, to complete this two part travelogue series. Still troubled by record level snow falls, we were lucky this time to have arrived in Rausu just as the roads...
Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido Tour #2 2014 Part 1 (Podcast 412)
Today I'm going to walk you through 10 photos from my second Winter Wonderland Tour for 2014, in the first of what will be a two part series. Although we didn't have much snow in Hokkaido at the start of Tour #1, record snow falls in Nagano got us off to a slow start,...