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Updated: 05-MAR-2012
 
□ 2012 Photo Exhibition in Kyoto, Japan
※ Snap shots of Kyoto outside of the exhibition
□ Waterfowl - Digital Photo
□ Arches National Park MAR 2011 - Digital Photo
□ Great Sand Dsune Photo
□ March through April, 2010
Photo Exhibitioins at Fujifilm Photo Salon Tokyo, Roppongi and Osaka, Honmachi in Japan
Kiyomichi Koike Photo Exhibitioni "Spirits of the Desert"
□ Published on April 4, 2008 - Photo Book "Whispers from the Sands" in English/Japanese
In the U.S., currently it is only available at:
■ Visitor Center Gift Shop in Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Mosca, Colorado
■ Rocky Mountain Gateway Gift Shop at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado
OR directly through us. Please contact us via email or calling 720-489-9327
Order Now！To: <nature@usa-japan.com>
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Hard Cover book with 112 pages [93 great photo images which include 11 panoramas]
Large book, A4 size weighing approximately 900 g (2 lb.)
Price: USD 38.00 + tax (for Colo resident) + S/H
Published by Fukeishashinsha Co. Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan (Printed in Japan)
E-Mail： Order "Whispers from the Sands" Publisher's URL: Sample PDF
Photo is not simply to show an image that can visually be seen, but to tell something within. There are stories that tell something you will feel instinctively.
I strongly believe that my sensitivity as "my character"
or "myself" is constantly being polished in a way
I feel comfortable with by being out there in the desert and the ecosystem, getting occasional
sand baths, being scared by thunder lightenings and not being
able to get a single shot of photograph, having muscle cramps
while walking or a day after, having a piece of a tinny sand
on a film which leaves a proof of its existence clearly on
it, being encouraged by coyotes hauling just before sunset,
and tasting various conditions, scenes, weather, temperature,
air, perception, significance, and fear, at the Great Sand
Dunes which I have chosen to work with for my Life Work. For
I cannot expect what I may see but am very interested in going
out there, without much thinking of what I should be filming,
I will just go out there and wait for a moment looking at
the sand dunes. Shadows appear when sinking sun goes down
to a certain height in the western sky on the other side of
San Luis Valley burning the surfaces of the sand dunes in
orange and red colors, pouring out unmeasurable amount of
energy from the earth, and I sense an invisible power scattered
everywhere to symbolize the greatness of Nature..
Is it selflessness? I keep shooting in a scenery feeling
impressed appreciatively looking at what I see through the
finder of my camera. I choose a location and wait for a moment
to take a photograph that my feeling being there stays within.
Mule deer stand up in the sand sheet area among sage brushes
and watch me taking pictures. A lone coyote shows up in surprise
by my side and quickly turns its back to run away. It is limited
to work with what I see in the environment where I am allowed
to live, however, it is unlimited for pictures I take. How
far can I go? It probably is how Nature accepts my existence
there instead of being up to me.
Kiyomichi Koike, Member of JPS Japan Professional Photographers Society
[Head image is Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Mosca, Colorado]
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![Nature Photographer [Kiyomichi Koike]](image/headJUL10.jpg)
