Skier sending a wave of powder above Hirafu, Mt Yōtei wearing a cap cloud behind

Photographer in Niseko since 2006.

Private ski and snowboard photography, winter portraits for couples and families, and architectural photography for the people who build here.

Family of five grinning in a Niseko gondola, Mt Yōtei through the window

The half day

¥120,000

3 hours · 100+ edited photos · up to 5 people · gallery in 72 hours

Three hours with Glen inside the resort. Ride while he shoots, stop for portraits with Yōtei behind you, and come away with a full set of the trip.

  • Morning for first tracks, or afternoon into the late light
  • Action and portraits in the same session
  • Glen picks the runs on the day for snow, light and your group

All sessions

Prices are per session, not per person, and include tax. The same price all season, including Christmas and Chinese New Year.

Every session includes

  • Glen, privately, for your whole session
  • A minimum number of fully edited photos (see each session)
  • Your private SmugMug gallery within 72 hours, to download in full
  • Up to 5 people per session (a 6th by arrangement)
  • Personal use of every photo: social, prints, sharing
  • If the weather rules your session out and it can’t be moved, a full refund

The weather promise

Snow, cloud and wind don’t cancel a session. Some of the best photos happen in them, and Glen has more than twenty years of knowing where to go when the weather turns.

If conditions make a session unsafe or impractical, Glen moves it to another time during your stay. If it can’t be moved, you get everything you’ve paid back.

Full detail in the booking terms.

Architecture and aerial

Twenty years photographing Niseko’s chalets, hotels and developments, inside and out, from the ground and the air. Glen is a registered drone pilot in Japan.

Dark-timber chalet with a wave-shaped roof and a glass top floor after fresh snow

Trusted by

  • Singapore Airlines
  • SC Global Developments
  • Hokkaido Airports
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • Zaborin
  • Niseko Property
  • MUWA Niseko
  • Setsuin
  • Hanacreek Niseko
  • Yamakei Residences
  • Haku Villas
  • Intuitian
  • Taiga
  • Fenix West
  • Nikota Realty
  • OYUKI
  • Powderlife
  • Mountain Watch

Recent work

Timber A-frame chalet carrying a huge pillow of snow on its roof
Skier laying into a deep powder turn between snow-caked birches
Concrete loft living room looking straight out at Mt Yōtei
A family making snow angels in fresh snow, seen from the drone

All work

Glen Claydon with his camera beside a tree

About Glen

Glen came to Japan from Australia in 2001 and has lived in Niseko since 2006. He speaks Japanese, and after more than twenty years skiing and snowboarding these mountains he knows where the snow, the light and the backgrounds are, whatever the weather.

More about Glen