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A photographic journey of the heart

I knelt behind my camera tripod, gazing from the edge of a sandy knoll, northward up the Nuna valley. A few yards away, a fortyish Japanese man did the same.

Before us, a weathered caribou skull lay in a blood-red swath of bearberry; beyond, an immense sweep of autumn tundra glowed beneath a furling expanse of clouds, squalls, and sun. Occasionally moving his lips without speaking, my companion seemed adrift in a trance as he studied land and sky, making adjustments and squeezing the shutter release.

Michio Hoshino is an extremely accomplished wildlife photographer, observer and researcher in his mid forties.

Michio Hoshino is an extremely accomplished wildlife photographer, observer and researcher in his mid forties.

Michio Hoshino was born in Ichikawa City, Japan, in When he was seventeen, a photo of an Eskimo village on the northwest coast of Alaska in National.

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Michio Hoshino was born in Ichikawa City, Chiba Perfecture, Japan in At the age of 17, a photo of an Eskimo village on the northwest coast of Alaska in.

From the Arctic tundra of the North Slope to the thick spruce and cedar forests of Southeast, Alaskan history has been written in terms.

I divided my time between scanning the country for caribou and studying him—emulating lens choice and angle, trying and failing to mimic both his technical command and his absolute-in-the-moment absorption. At last, he turned toward me with a smile that seemed to mirror the land’s radiance.

Oh look, Neek, look! It is all so beautiful.

The man was photographer Michio Hoshino. I’d met him briefly in Ambler before; he’d been making trips to the upper