Happy New Year!

This is a picture I made last year at the Snow Light Path Festival in Otaru, a small city on the island of Hokkaido in the north of Japan.

The festival is an exhibition of beautiful lights and decorations made of ice. Most of the lights are placed along a long path thus creating a walk of almost magical beauty.

I like this particular decoration very much. It has the form of a heart and contains many small lighted hearts inside, just like our own hearts contain many different passions.

The light in the foreground is like a guardian. Made out of ice and autumn leaves this light seems to protect our inner passions.

Keep your passions alive in 2018!