Otaru is a city and port in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo.
Have been there a couple of times, but never in the right season .
There is a canal there which is said to be romantic – especially in Winter when it is covered with snow.
The canal was also the background of a television series.
I have been playing around with the “Reduce Color” function of a software. The image below has the number of colors reduced from the original color photo.
The resulting image looks as if the area around the Otaru canal is covered with snow – which is the Winter scene I want.
For comparison, I have also included the original color image.
To be able to reduce the number of colors and getting a romantic image is just magical !
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