The Silent Witness: A Bird’s View of Mount Fuji

• Prize
  Gold in Nature/Panoramic
• Photographer
  Akio Maeshima
• Technical Info
  photographed while paragliding over Mount Fuji and later stitched from about 20 vertical shots
• Photo Date
  2023/6/5

Through the unspoken eyes of a bird, the world reveals its vast, breathing beauty. Mount Fuji stands not just as a mountain, but as a silent testament to time, nature, and the endless horizon beyond human reach.

Akio Maeshima is Photographer and Paraglider competition pilot based in Tokyo. Maeshima is an impressively diverse photographer who maintains his vision across the genres of portrait, still life, aerial, landscape and snap. Through experiments with color, tone, and light, in the studio and on location, he imbues his subjects with a sense of playfulness, and beautiness, alongside his own romanticized notions.