Biei, Hokkaido - Minimalist Winter Photography and Travel Guide. Japan Photo Explore

This is a photography and travel guide to the beautiful snow-covered rolling hills of Biei, on Japan's most northerly main island, Hokkaido. Inspired by the Hokkaido minimalist photography of Michael Kenna, Ted and I have come to Biei in search of minimalist landscape photography.

Whether you are planning to travel to Japan when it re-opens, or just enjoy some virtual travel, you have come to the right place. Japan Photo Explore is a series of travel and photography videos that show you some amazing places, some you’ve probably never heard of.

Hi, my name's Nick Pitsas. I am a photographer and video producer and I've been traveling to Japan since 2009, including five trips in winter, so if you have any questions about travel and photography in Japan, I'm happy to try to answer them. I look forward to your comments and questions. More videos are coming so if you’d like to see them, please click the notifications button so that you’ll know when new videos are uploaded.

For all the photography in this video my photography buddy Ted and I both used Fujifilm X-T2 camera bodies. Because part of this itinerary included bird photography, we had Fujifilm XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lenses with us. This is a lens not typically used for landscape photography, but it proved to be very useful in this location.

Please note that none of the content of this video, nor the equipment we used, was sponsored.

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