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Snow forest in Nagano Japan

Episode eight: ancient 400 year old japanese trees

Hi friends. New vlog episode for you all. In EP8 we road trip from Nagano - Japan’s snowy mountainous region to Tadami River in Fukushima. The viral image I shot of those huge skyscraper height Japanese cedar trees in heavy snow is the place we visit (Togakushi Shrine). Dan and I shoot around there and patiently wait for the right conditions and then book it 6 hours north to Aizuwakamatsu to shoot a famous train crossing. There we were expecting blizzard like snow conditions but thing’s didn’t exactly turn out as we visioned it. I share some of my best drone footage from the trip in the ep. Watch the episdode above to find out what happened.

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