Snow-covered mountains - Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

Having been through a snow storm and even snowed-in for a day, the mountains were well-coated with fresh snow. The following day, the trees had dropped their snow and created a lovely pattern with the snow and hillsides.

This was taken on a trip meant solely for photography. We traveled to Tokyo and then took a domestic flight to the northernmost island of Japan (Hokkaido). On Hokkaido, we had vehicles to take our group to various places for photography. There were two trip guides but we arranged the trip through wildlife photographer Jon Cornforth.

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