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Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Wordless Wednesday: Rainy Season Could End Tomorrow

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Itoman City 2019 Dragon Boat PDF History of Itoman Haree Races Japan Times English Article
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: Sailing Sabani Race

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Special T-shirt Arrived Overnight

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Late Night Message Saturday night, sometimes finds me in a local watering hole and, it was one of those nights. DING: A message...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Canoe to Divorce Rock

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Nobody Was Home The weather wizards were wrong. It turned out to be a nice sunny day. A guy showed up at my office with a c...
Monday, July 17, 2017

In the Shower - Pentax K1 After 3 Days at Sea

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Not an Everyday Event This is the camera, I used last weekend for shooting the annual sailing sabani races. We were out at ...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Ocean Image: A Sailing Sabani

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Tomorrow Is Ocean Day in Japan Last weekend, I was out in the Kerama Islands with this sabani team. This is one of my favorite,...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Island Image: Start of the 2017 Sailing Sabani Race

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Furuzamami Beach Last Sunday was my 5th time traveling to Zamami Island for these races, as a photographer. It's sort of a wo...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Travel Transportation Shot: Queen Zamami

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Visiting Outer Islands Just a quick post before the laptop gets thrown in my backpack. The cameras and lenses are packed away f...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Travel Photo: At a Noro House in Itoman

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Noro: An Okinawan Priestess This image comes from my files dated June 2013 and, was just processed today. Things have a hab...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Wordless Wednesday: Old Time Sabani Construction

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

5 More GIF Images from the 2016 Zamami to Naha Sabani Race

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Four Hours from the Start     Remember, this boat capsized about half an hour into the race . They, up-righted the sabani, ba...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Sesoko Beach Images Taken at 420mm -- Animated GIFs

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Waiting for Birds of Prey     These are some scenes created while standing on Sesoko Island, near the bridge. With a big lens, ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Cultural Event: Abushibare (畦払い) Getting Fields Rid of Vermin

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Send the Varmints Out to Sea     It was a few years in the making but, I finally attended an Abushibare, today. The...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

10 More GIFs from the 2015 Kin Bay Sailing Sabani Race

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There were a couple of  firsts, I witnessed at the sabani races, yesterday. Seeing sabani boats capsize isn't anything new. ...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Culture Photo: Lunar New Year Visit to a Shrine

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Sabani Boat Teams at Hakugindo Shrine     Those gathered at the shrine have just sailed and rowed their sabani boats throug...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Travel Photo: The Sailing Sabani Boats in Itoman

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Camera: Pentax K3 on a tripod. Lens: Pentax DA-300mm Exposure: f/5.6  1/800   ISO 100 Date and Time: Nov 2, 2014  9:57AM ...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Itoman Sailing Sabani Race 2014 Colorful GIF

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The better part of a sunny Sunday was spent at this event. This motion GIF is just a tiny sample of what was photographed at the sa...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

5 More Photos from the 2014 Zamami-jima Sailing Sabani Race

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Catching up on the processing of photos from this race may take awhile. This boat, with the yellow sails caught my attention, the ni...