My annual Essence of Autumn photography workshop tour, the Essence of Spring Sakura Cherry Blossom Photo Tour workshop, and my Winter Hokkaido Photo Tour. Each workshop tour is carefully crafted for photographers eager to capture Japan’s breathtaking beauty during its prime seasons. All my workshops are a cross-country adventure, fully inclusive from the time we meet at Haneda Airport to the time we drop you back at Haneda Airport. A few unique features are that all my photo workshops offer business-class seating; we don’t cram our customers into uncomfortable vehicles. Additionally, lodging is 3-6 star, and these are not Google stars, but actual traditional hotel stars. However, in Hokkaido, I have no choice but to use a couple of photographers' hotels. Although these hotels lack glamour, they make up for it by being in the best locations for wildlife and landscape photography. The other half of the lodgings in Hokkaido are 4- to 6-star. But don’t worry, the food at one of the photographer's lodgings on the Pacific Coast is first rate, and a couple of evenings we dine out at one of Hokkaido’s most famous Izakaya's, and one evening we eat at a local Sushi shop. Comfort and safety are the first things that come to mind when I think of customer service. Spectacular photography on all my workshop tours comes naturally, as I have been scouting and refining my existing routes for over twenty-eight years. I know where the wildlife can be found and which locations are best to visit for their landscapes, depending on the weather. Hokkaido is my favourite place to be in winter. The Steller’s sea eagles and White-tailed eagles are genuinely exciting raptors to view and photograph, and let's not forget “Snowballerinas," the poetic nickname for the Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis), which are known as Tancho in Japanese, due to their elegant appearance and graceful movements, especially when performing courtship dances in snowy landscapes of Hokkaido, Japan. Plus, we have dozens of other species to spot and photograph, such as the Ezo sika deer (Cervus Nippon yesoensis the Eurasian nuthatch  (Sitta europaea), the Willow or March Tit Poecile (montanus or palustris) is often confused with the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) or the Japanese tit (Parus Minor) and is also known as the Oriental tit, The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), the Whooper Swan (Cygnus Cygnus), among dozens of other species.