Japanese crane

This photo was taken of a red-crowned crane that lives in northern Japan, in Hokkaido.The red-crowned crane is called the god of the marshlands, and is called "Sarurun Kamui" and worshipped like a god by the Ainu people, the indigenous people of Hokkaido.I photographed the divine nature of the red-crowned crane against a background of white snow.

Camera
Country
City
Picture Year
Photographer
Eliot Charof
Los Angeles
When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, we used to visit our grandparents in Los Angeles each summer. They would take us down to Muscle Beach in Venice to watch the bodybuilders and buy us Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirts, making us feel like the strongest kids in the world. That memory always…
Layne Morgan
Pittsburgh
Light Painting is a technique I first explored in 2016 when I was shooting pictures at midnight in the middle of winter in the Berkshire Mountains in New England.Since that night and including the image submitted, Light Painting has helped me turn my photojournalist career into a winning “fine art…
Joy Saha
Dhaka
Boatmen rest on anchored boats along the banks of the Buriganga River in the Sadarghat area of ​​Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. After a full day of navigating the river from dawn till dusk, they retreat to their floating homes for the night. With their residences also moored on these boats…
Sven Delaye
Questembert
This photograph, titled "Between the Lines," was captured in a museum in Mexico The concept of being "between the lines" is both literal and figurative in this composition. The guide here becomes part of the story—simultaneously observer and participant—mirroring how museums let us step into…