Wakayama Nights. December, 2019.

Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

12/6/2019.  Recently, I spent five nights in a small seaside village on the Kii Peninsula.  There’s a beach, two convenience stores, a home-improvement store and not much else.  Nights are peaceful here, the only sounds to be heard are the waves and an old train that rolls through every hour or two.  The tracks traverse the center of town, between the closely spaced houses and the crop fields.  I had researched this shot months in advance, and after spending time there, I felt it captured the experience of life in this village.  After scouting it on foot during the day, I returned in the evening, calculated the exposure and waited patiently in the crisp autumn air.  It took a couple outings to get the frame I wanted, but the slow, quiet experience was worth it.