Mt Fuji under a long lenticular cloud at dawn, perfectly mirrored in the still lake below

Japan · 2020 · 2025

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Location

Japan · Kyoto · Tokyo · Mt Fuji

Year

2020 · 2025

Role

Photography

On assignment for

Hyatt Hotels · Sigma

Japan in two seasons. Kyoto's shrines and bamboo, a Tokyo of aquariums and lantern light, and Mt Fuji holding the horizon, then a return for the cherry blossoms in the rain. Shot on assignment for Hyatt Hotels and Sigma, but really an excuse to photograph the whole country.

A woman with a red parasol on the Yasaka pagoda lane in Kyoto at first light
A figure with a red parasol on the path through the Arashiyama bamboo grove
Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion, mirrored in its still pond at golden hour
A figure beneath the vermilion torii gates of Fushimi Inari, snow in the air
A figure in a blue coat under the red lanterns of a narrow Omoide Yokocho alley at night
A lone visitor in a glowing aquarium tunnel as rays glide overhead
The teamLab Forest of Resonating Lamps, hundreds of colored lights mirrored to infinity
A grid of candy-colored balconies climbing a concrete atrium, one tiny figure leaning out
The Chureito pagoda with Mt Fuji rising behind it under moody cloud
A red torii gate on a ridge with Mt Fuji floating above a sea of cloud
A wooden boat on a still lakeshore, Mt Fuji mirrored under a pink and orange sunset
The Tokyo Skytree framed through a haze of pink cherry blossoms
A walker with a yellow umbrella on a path carpeted with fallen pink petals
A lone figure with a white umbrella far down a rain-slicked tunnel of cherry blossoms
Two people with umbrellas beneath the blossoms, mirrored in a puddle below
A red arched bridge over a river, framed by blooming cherry trees and distant hills
A hillside washed in cherry blossom against dark evergreen forest
A river winding between banks lined with blooming cherry trees and green hills
A wet path under arching cherry blossoms with yellow rapeseed flowers along the fence

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