Story about Snow Festival

Story about Snow Festival
Originally uploaded by Keith Yeung.

Best view in large , from Sapporo TV Tower

Sapporo Snow Festival one of Japan's largest winter events, attracts a growing number of visitors from Japan and abroad every year.
Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see the hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park,the grounds at Satoland, and the main street in Susukino.
For seven days in February,these statues and sculptures(both large and small) turn Sapporo into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow.
The Snow Festival began in 1950, when local high school students built six snow statues in Odori Park. in 1955, the Self-Defense Force joined in and built the very first massive snow sculpture, for which the Snow Festival has become famous for now. The Festival has grown from these humble beginnings to become one of the biggest and most well known of Hokkaido's winter events.
The Snow Festival is considered to be a festival of international-caliber.
(Source: Sapporo Snow Festival)

It was 2005 my honeymoon, I remember this shot was difficult because I could not use tropod and a cloud of people around me. The most difficult was need to put the len on the window (due to reflection on window or flash from other cameras).