“Winter Skeletons” : Hiroshima, 4th December 2010
Late afternoon, just over a year ago, and I went out to test my then new Nikon D7000.
I climbed up Ogonzan, a local hill which commands great views over the Inland Sea and the city, and is reputed to house the villas of yakuza kingpins.
I survived unscathed and took a number of sunset landscape shots before noticing this forlorn leaf cling to the skeletal remains of a tree, bathed in the amber glow of the sunset, and thought it made a great symbol of the stark beauty of winter.
This shot is straight out of the camera, with no cropping or post-processing whatsoever.
Check out a larger version of it here.
