#56 · Nov 12–16 · Beginning of Winter
The earth begins to freeze
地始凍
Chi hajimete kōru · The ground begins to freeze
Frozen soil crust, rime along a field edge, or puddle ice forming over dark earth.
Poetic & observational
A slower way of seeing seasonal change.
Photographed by Michael Gebert
72 personal photographic responses — not a documentary of Japan.
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