As our leaders on Japan Dreamscapes (JDS) Private Photo Tours know all to well, enjoying a photo workshops to its fullest means paying attention to small details.  Too often, we find that clients approach a photographic subject with only one perspective in mind.  We at JDS feel that is a limiting point of view.

Take temples and shrines and Japanese architectural photography for example.  Having spent more than 20 years in the field in Japan, our lead photography workshop guide has become familiar with several temples in shrines nearby the JDS home and satellite offices.  However, he is always expanding his expertise by exploring new locations in Japan.  Of the 6,852 islands of Japan, he has set boot to ground on more than 200 of them, and his goals is to double that number as quickly as he can.

His expertise means that when he is leading a group of photographers, he introduces them to different ways of seeing the same subject, perhaps ways that the client hasn’t considered.  The photo attached to this blog is from an off the beaten path shrine, and the interior and grounds are breathtaking, but because the JDS Japan Photo Workshop Leader has logged so many hours becoming familiar with many temples, shrines, and all architectural photographic subjects, he examines them from every angle.  He knows where to look in the shrine and temple to capture those once in a lifetime photos.  Sometimes it's just as simple as looking up, but on other occasions, discovering gallery worthy photos takes a little more effort, but leave that effort to us at JDS.  All you have to do is join us on a Japan Photo Tour.