Okinawa wildlife Archives - seawildearth https://seawildearth.com/blog/tag/okinawa-wildlife/ Wildlife and Landscape Imaging Adventures Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:08:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 46886990 Japanese Tiger Beetle https://seawildearth.com/blog/japanese-tiger-beetle/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:08:17 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13445 On one of my early treks towards Fukugawa waterfall, I first came across the Japanese Tiger Beetle. At the time, I wasn’t even looking for it—just pausing along the path when a sudden flash of metallic green and bronze darted across the trail.

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]]> 13445 Winter Wildlife Visitors to Okinawa https://seawildearth.com/blog/winter-wildlife-visitors-to-okinawa/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:34:55 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=13007 Winter wildlife visitors to Okinawa tend to be of avian fare. They are able to migrate here for the winter months for various reasons specific to their behavioral needs.

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]]> 13007 Photographing Frogs, in my Underwear! https://seawildearth.com/blog/photographing-frogs-in-my-underwear/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 06:18:53 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=11013 Photographing Frogs as a Macro Photographer I learned a long time ago any thoughts of this being a glamorous shoot should be stowed and discarded, like, forever!

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]]> 11013 Andersons Crocodile Newt Encounter https://seawildearth.com/blog/andersons-crocodile-newt-encounter/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:44:31 +0000 https://seawildearth.com/?p=10915 Andersons Crocodile Newt is pretty much a dinosaur. To be found during specific times of the year and in a few pockets of dense jungles in the Northern areas of Okinawa main island, it is sadly in decline due to habitat loss and illegal pet trade poachers.

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]]> 10915 The Trashy Side of Macro Photography https://seawildearth.com/blog/macro-photography-light-diffusion/ Sat, 04 May 2019 07:35:10 +0000 http://192.168.1.121/wordpress.mu/howfresh/?p=6033 Macro photography diffusion is the key to accomplishing great macro imagery. I mean we can have all the best camera gear in the world but manufacturers cater to the mean common denominator and thus don’t look to make things more complex than maybe they need to be. In this regard that is fully understandable. I mean no one wants to have to open a piece of equipment straight off the shelf and then have to take a degree in how […]

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