The Torii on the Beach: Ghost at the Top of the Hill (Photos)

Aw, you don't really believe in ghosts.  Or do you? 

I promised a few people I'd show them the Ghost I mentioned in a previous blog post so, I guess it's time I dug her up.

First, you get to look at the scene as it would be if you were approaching this sacred site in late afternoon.

It can be pretty dark inside this wooded grove, even when the sun is shining brightly on the best of days.

After passing under the Torii and entering the site, this small Utaki, or place of worship, is the first thing you notice along the trail.


Climb all the stairs behind the small building and you'll come to this, very special, site of worship.
It is locked up. Only a high priestess opens the doors to pray and make offerings and that is only on special occasions. No one else has access to the place.  There is a chair on the right side.

Just about the time I started thinking of going the rest of the way up and sitting down to rest my weary bones. Something moved and I snapped this photo.  It's a GHOST and I know her.

She used to work with me here in Okinawa, Japan.  She did the writing and I was the photographer.  We worked together on Photo Essays for APOGEE PHOTO MAGAZINE, GO BACKPACKING and ROMAR TRAVEL.

Some of them, we did a couple of articles for between 2009 and 2010.  Then, all of a sudden, one day she just disappeared into thin air.  So, I figure, she really must have been a ghost.  A GHOST WRITER. 

There's the ghost on the top of the hill behind the Torii on the beach in Okinawa, Japan.  Wuuuu !

Photography Tips: Where to Get Published

Posting your photos on the social networks will get them noticed by friends and family. Maybe, hundreds of people will view them.

But, having your best photography posted in an online magazine or popular blog will get them seen by millions of viewers, around the globe. Today’s Photography Tip: GET PUBLISHED ONLINE and here are Five of My Favorite Sites for having my photo essays shown:

1. ApogeePhotoMag     http://www.apogeephoto.com/

2. BootsNall    http://www.bootsnall.com/

3. Go Backpacking   http://www.gobackpacking.com/

4. Go Nomad   http://www.gonomad.com/

5. Matador Network    http://matadornetwork.com/

What inspired this post was the photo I’ve posted above. I was looking for it in one of my galleries today (quite disorganized) and couldn’t find it. I knew it had been published recently at Apogee Photo so I went there to see if I had posted camera specs showing the date it had been taken. I was blown away by the number of views on the article.

That particular photo, I never would have thought of submitting for publication. A writer and an editor selected it and if they hadn’t, it’d still be collecting digital dust somewhere!

All five of these sites have published my work, some several times.

Photography Tip for today: Visit these sites and get your photography published!