Immortal Souls
This is another one from the Otowa-bashi bridge in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The red-crowned cranes (or “Tancho” in Japanese) are incredible creatures renowned for their balletic mating dance and the fact that they remain partners for life. They're a big part of Japanese culture and mythology and some ancient literature claims that they are immortal. On this occasion the cranes didn’t move as close to the bridge as they usually do and they were out of the reach of most cameras, including mine. I was lucky that our guide Ando-san was a superb photographer (and Anglophile) and allowed me to use his camera and extremely long telephoto lens.
Immortal Souls
This is another one from the Otowa-bashi bridge in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The red-crowned cranes (or “Tancho” in Japanese) are incredible creatures renowned for their balletic mating dance and the fact that they remain partners for life. They're a big part of Japanese culture and mythology and some ancient literature claims that they are immortal. On this occasion the cranes didn’t move as close to the bridge as they usually do and they were out of the reach of most cameras, including mine. I was lucky that our guide Ando-san was a superb photographer (and Anglophile) and allowed me to use his camera and extremely long telephoto lens.