In February I was in Japan. I was in Japan, because I were going to attend the Winter Wonderland Tour from Martin Bailey. But before, I stayed some time in Tokyo. On Friday at about lunch I arrived at my hotel, the Prince Hotel Complex at Shinagawa Station. I choose this, because it used to be the meeting point for the tour. The hotel complex consists of mainly two hotels, the Main Tower and the East Tower. I stayed in the East Tower, because...

This morning we went out the 2nd time to do some shootings on the sea eagles. Unfortunately, the last night was very cold, so we had a lot of ice on the sea and we couldn’t get out as far we liked. Because of that we had way to many ravens in the area around. On the other side, for me it was still a good day. It took time to look at the birds and their behavior and as such I hopefully had a couple of great shoots. Some of them id like to...

It was a tough morning. We had to get up at 4:00 a.m., because we left the port at 5:30 a.m. for the Sea Eagles. The weather not so cold as expected. The ship was packed with people. We had a beautiful sunrise with lots of Sea Eagles. Some of the shoots came out quite nice. This morning was like to shoot the eagles to get the picture and to learn. The next two mornings will be to refine the ideas and the get THE picture.

I am in Japan, in Tokyo, Japan. I am with Martin Bailey and David DuChemin on a photography tour. How does this happened? Back in the fall of 2012 I have got reminded that Martin Bailey offers a photography tour to the Snow Monkeys and around the national parks on Hokkaido. Martin offered two tours, one with Chris Marquardt and on with David DuChemin. I know Chris already from many previous trips in Germany and in the Himalayas. David, I only...