Visual Notes 001

Sea fog in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan

When I’m traveling, nothing moves me more than waking up to a morning shrouded in fog.

For the first installment of Visual Notes, I’m sharing a landscape I encountered in Kushiro, Hokkaido. In Kushiro, the number of foggy days often exceeds 100 each year—so in a sense, this is an everyday scene. Because it drifts in from the sea, it’s also known as sea fog.

It was early morning, before the night had fully lifted. I left the hotel with my camera and kept pressing the shutter. Fine droplets clung to everything, wetting my hair. The camera body had taken on that moisture too. It isn’t weather-sealed, so I hesitated for a moment—but I chose to keep shooting.

For a while, it felt like I was still inside a dream.

Visual Notes is a new series that will run alongside my regular posts—more photographs, fewer words.