23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
Memories of a Floating Island

At a quiet beach in Shizuoka, I raised the horizon line to its limit, shaping the rocky outcrop with the torii gate into what feels like a “floating island.” In the place where sea and sky melt into one, I captured a sensation drifting somewhere between solitude and release.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2025
Date Uploaded: 11.2025
Photo Location: Shizuoka, Japan
Camera: ILCE-7RM4
Copyright: © Tomohiko Funai