Multicolor, impressionistic abstractions of Nature's last dance before a long stretch of wintry slumber. 🍃🍂
Complementary Abstraction
The sun creates unimaginable shades, complementary to the rest of the landscape, where autumn color has just started to set in. 💦🍂🍃
Lone Aspen
Solitary walks through the aspen grove with a hot coffee in hand are one of the best aspects of autumn. 🍃🍂
Windings Woods
Shinto on Green
It's fitting to visually emphasize the expansive and striking natural setting of an iconic Shinto shrine like the one in Hakone as seen from lake Ashi. ⛩🌿
Doe-Eyed Cuteness
"Well, hello there. Let me mesmerize you with my doe-eyed cuteness, so that you don't tell your neighbor that I've come to eat his apples. Again." 😉
Nature Returns
Motherhood
It's been a number of years since I've first photographed the so-called snow monkeys—Japanese macaques. My first acquaintance took place at Jigokudani outside Nagano in late fall. As a result, this ensured the fact that some of my images resembled those iconic photographs of hot onsen providing the resident monkeys necessary refuge in cold weather.
This time around, smoldering summer heat and relentless humidity or Arashiyama, Kyoto area, in August seemed to offer the opposite effect. Yet my images are no worse. Take this endearing Motherhood photograph of a snow monkey and her offspring, as she stares thoughtfully (or is she fatigued?) into the distance, as the baby naps.
End-of-Summer Golden Hour
Somehow the color yellow crept through, unnoticed, to shady aspen groves and fluffy, baby-chick weeds, bike trails and deer's favorite napping spots. Yet, so much green still remains. This is the twilight zone between summer and autumn.
