Tancho - Sacred Birds of the Orient 东方圣鸟丹顶鹤
From Dec. 23 to 31, 2012, I travelled to Hokkaido. The best reward for me during the trip was the strikingly surreal and other-worldly views of cranes resting far away in the misty water shrouded by the orange light of sunrise snow white. The sun light shone through the fog over the surface of the water and left a mysterious touch of beauty. Simply wonderful to the eyes of a Chinese who cherished the special symbolic meaning of cranes from the Taoist ideal of rising from the earthly worries and pursuits and escaping to the pure and undisturbed land a few skies above. Occasionally, a few cranes would fly off the water and pass just overhead when I realized they were really gigantic birds.
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Group of cranes in golden water at sunrise at Otowa Bridge. I always enjoy photographying wild lives in their grander environment much more than protographing close-up details of wild lives themselves and feel as if I could be reduced to non-existance in front of such poetic and beautiful views while as the same time reaching high to the heaven.
音羽桥看鹤群在日出时金色的河水中。比起拍摄野生动物的细节，我更爱留下他们作为更宏大环境中的一部分的景象。有时这种诗意而美丽的图画让我感觉自己已经渺小到了不存在而同时又向高处升腾，向天堂靠近。
