If you are interested in bird or landscape photography in the winter in Japan (as your image suggests), I strongly recommend Martin Bailey's winter workshops in Hokkaido. Martin is a superb photographer and teacher whose many years of experience shooting for himself and leading groups to Hokkaido (and to Nagano for the Snow Monkeys) make him in my mind the first choice for this kind of workshop. I've been on two of his workshops there so I speak as a very satisfied client. Martin's podcast, one of the oldest in the business, is also not to be missed and will give you a good sense of what his workshops cover. Chris