Honorable Mention TIFA 2025 Fine Art / Other

Presence of The Dragon

  • Photographer
    Toshiaki Shimazaki
  • Technical Info
    100mm F8 1/1600 Iso200 M4/3
  • Photo Date
    2025/08/03

In Japanese temples, dragons are painted on ceilings to protect the law and summon sacred rain. It may not be a coincidence that I felt a dragon upon the roof of this hall. The ridges, like overlapping scales along its back, divert wind and shed rain, bringing it closer to the form of a dragon. Dragons bring nourishing rain and evade fire; the illusion of a dragon dwelling upon a roof sometimes takes on a striking sense of reality.

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