Seasons changing October 4 2011, 3:07am via thespudgun.com

The “First Snow” posts have been hitting the press hot (cold) and fast over the last few days, Today i took a drive and tried to capture some of the gloomy weather we are having of late…The weather that lets us all know that soon it will be time to put on skis or strap into our boards, yep that’s right winter is coming! and there’s nothing you can do to stop it! OH YEAH!

Things are getting back to normal here in Japan (after a rather gnarly recent Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Disaster) and recent news that WTTC will hold their Annual General Meeting & Executive Committee Meeting on April 17 in Sendai – one of the worst hit areas hit by the March 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami - is a show of faith that things are not as bad as some would have you believe.

below is a selection of images I’ve captured over the past few days. No doubt the snow we see now will melt away over the coming days (that’s usually the way it goes) but it will be replaced with more of the same later in the month and let’s hope that once it starts, it just won’t stop! (that’s normal here in Niseko)

The followig are all HDR images (cos that’s just wot I do)