I am very excited to annouce early access pricing, starting with this Featured Photo of the month. If this is a hit, it will extend to other new releases.
This photo taken in March of 2025, amazingly escaped my attention until early October 2025, yet is ironically representitive of why.
When I visit the Snow Monkeys or really any nature spot for my photography I am often in a sort of dream state. Many of the images I capture are in the moment with little to no planning, I see a feeling in the light, the color, the subject, and at this moment I feel a wave of energy as I focus my lens and shift with the eb and flow until an angle that resonates with me is found.. It truly feels similar to dreaming not only visually but in the sense that there is a sort of etheral heaviness like I am falling asleep and falling into the image in my view finder. This phenomenom extends even to the extent that sometimes just as I am pressing the shutter I instictively want to close my eyes, and have to gently remind myself that they are necessary to maintain my framing of the image.. or are they?
All photos by T. Mellon, The artist behind all aspects of filmstudiojapan.com
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