Learning to Find Minimal Images in Hokkaido

In January I spent 10 days in the snowy hills of Hokkaido, Japan. The huge amounts of snowfall there make for incredibly clean scenes, and so composition revolves around finding simple and minimal images.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:41 Shosanbetsu
2:22 Biei
4:35 Composition
9:24 Conclusion

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