Full article: Photographer waits, watches for perfect light on Mount McKinley | Anchorage Daily News - The News Tribune. Excerpt from Anchorage Daily News article:
For the past dozen or so years, Matsumoto has camped on glaciers in the Alaska Range in the dead of winter for more than a month at a time -- seeking the perfect photograph of northern lights on Denali, but also something more intangible: the chance for an encounter with the natural world that will make him feel "very small." View 5 of his beautiful photos here: http://www.adn.com/2012/02/18/2325078/norio-matsumoto.html
In a bookstore at the college where he studied industrial sociology, he stumbled on a book by the famous Japanese nature photographer Michio Hoshino. The photos and stories were of Alaska: caribou in the Arctic, whales in Southeast, tiny details of lichen and vast mountain ranges.
Hoshino was known in Alaska and Japan not only for his photos but for his gentle nature and knack for developing deep friendships. He was killed by a brown bear in Russia in 1996.
Matsumoto knew he wanted to find what Hoshino had found in Alaska, "to be out in the wilderness, camp for a long time and feel the things that he had felt."
So he quit his Japanese college and moved to Fairbanks to attend the University of Alaska. He was shocked by the cold and harsh winters. He moved to Juneau, where he earned a degree from the University of Alaska Southeast. He liked the feeling of a place teeming with rich, mossy life and the way the mountains and ocean met.
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