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"The things that impress me and resonate within me - that's what I want to share with people through my work."
I mainly shoot outdoors, and if I mount a 1000mm field scope on an E-System camera, I can enjoy a focal length equivalent to about 2000mm, which is a real advantage for me. And that's not all - when you mount a field scope on other manufacturers' cameras, you have to adjust the exposure manually, but with the E-System, you can continue using auto exposure, which makes things much easier.
I’ve also had a look at the new E-3, the successor of the E-1. As a camera it seems significantly more evolved, with increased toughness and the latest mechanisms. And I have heard nothing but good reports from photographers who have worked with it more extensively.
My photos shown here are entitled "Gathering on Drift Ice," "Resting Wings," and "The Whisper of Fallen Leaves." The first one was taken with the E-1 and the other two with the E-3. When one sees something majestic or beautiful, it stirs up impressions and emotions in the mind. I believe that as a photographer, it’s my job to capture these feelings and turn them into works of art.
"Resonance between people and nature, both receiving energy from the entire universe, will create love and the future" - that’s what’s written under the title of my website. And it is the things that impress me and resonate within me that I want to share with people through my work.
In recent years, I've been taking a lot of photos of water and trees, and in "The Nature Art Gallery" series published in 2001, I included a collection of photos entitled "Tree Thoughts." In the future, I’d like to publish another book in the same vein, but this time with all monochrome photos.
In nature, chance meetings and encounters with the unknown occur at every moment. For me, photography is a way of reproducing or recreating the thrill that those meetings and encounters generate.
My love of unfamiliar places and wildlife has led me to travel all over the world. But I'm also very interested in people, and I once took photographs of the Ovahimba tribe in Namibia and showed the results at an exhibition. If I have a chance in the future, I’d like to take photographs of other minority ethnic groups in Africa, China and other areas.
Editor’s Note
Shin Yoshino has been an Olympus fan since he first used the OM-2. A prolific photographer, he also writes essays and has held over 20 exhibitions and published over 30 photo collections, leaving him little time to enjoy his other favorite pastime, which is fishing. As I listened to him describe his near-telepathic ability to communicate with wildlife, it made me eager to see and hear more about his photographic adventures in the future.
(March 2008)
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