Forrest Brown

On one of the mountains surrounding Kyoto is the Iwatayama Monkey Park. It’s a pretty interesting area at the top of a small mountain where about 170 Japanese Macaque live. It’s about a 20 minute walk up a fairly steep trail to get to the top of the mountain where the monkeys are wild and free to roam around.

Taipei has a really nice zoo. They do a pretty good job of making the animal enclosures look natural, with lots of room for the animals to move around.

I’ve been playing around with some macro photography lately.

One of the really interesting things about Nara is that there’s hundreds of small deer that roam the city freely. The deer are thought to be heavenly animals that protect the city and the country.

Vendors sell deer cookies that you can buy to feed the deer. You have to be a little careful when feeding the deer because if a group of deer sees that you have the deer cookies, you’ll quickly be surrounded by a huge pack of deer. I saw several times where little old ladies would start feeding one or two deer, but then they would freak out when they became surrounded by twenty or thirty deer.

Day five of the 2009 Hokkaido Japan Winter Wonderland Nature Photography Workshop put on by Martin Bailey.

Day four of the 2009 Hokkaido Japan Winter Wonderland Nature Photography Workshop put on by Martin Bailey.