Photography

A curated gallery of photography and vignettes from Michael Gakuran - creatures, curios and obscura from hidden ruins and far-flung places around the world.

9 photographs

Out in the wild, this little beauty just happened to drop in front of me.

Baby-Faced Froggie

Macro, Wildlife

A chance yawn taken in the rain at Ritsurin Park.

Yawning Turtle, Hidden Pond

Macro, Wildlife

The Blood Doll

Still Life, Night

The Heavens Open on Hashima

Landscape, Nature

Beautiful Kobushime-chan

Macro, Wildlife

A human skull found deep in the catacombs under the streets of Paris.

Grin from the Catacombs

Still Life, Night

Alone inside the auditorium of a haikyo Motor Lodge, drawn to the shadows in the stepped ceiling above.

Shadows on the Ceiling

Urban, Night

A cemetery behind Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, caught in harsh sunlight and shadow as a man walked out from between the gravestones.

Kiyomizu Stones

B&W, People, Landscape

The eye sockets were bottomless, absorbing every flicker of remaining light - the soul of an old diver, long since succumbed to the darkness.

Menace of the Deep

B&W, Still Life