Cranes of Kushiro

Red-crowned cranes dancing on the frozen marsh, in the whitest light of the year.

Wetland

Cranes 01
Cranes 02 Cranes standing snow · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000
Cranes 03 Cranes dancing · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/500 · ISO 2000
Cranes 04 Two cranes walking · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1000 · ISO 5000
Cranes 05 Cranes dancing two · 500mm · f/4 · 1/400 · ISO 1250
Cranes 06 Crane walking · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 · ISO 3200
Cranes 07 Cranes running · 600mm · f/4 · 1/320 · ISO 2500
Cranes 08 Pair of cranes · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1600 · ISO 6400
Cranes 09 Two cranes walking snow · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/640 · ISO 1600

The one gallery here that is not dark. Red-crowned cranes court on the snow of the Kushiro marsh in February, and the only way to photograph white birds on white is to let the frame go white and keep the crown and the eye. Fourteen mornings at minus twenty.