Cruiser | Usa Beach, Okinawa, Japan Canon EOS 7D + Sigma 10-20mm 120s/ f8/ ISO 800Moonrise | Usa Beach, Okinawa, Japan Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 70-300mm 30s/ f11/ ISO 640
Happy Monday! This week’s Rogue Images were made by me on Usa Beach in Okinawa Japan during a perfect climbing/ surfing/ spearfishing/ beach cruising weekend. All participants were successfully able to: fire up | get dirty | scare yourself | bleed. Enjoy. -JW
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Fuji-san is a big deal. It’s the highest point on all of Japan’s islands. It’s on the ¥1000 note. It’s the subject of countless photos, paintings, woodblock prints, poems… blog posts.
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist | Teahouse at Koishikawa the morning after a snowfall Between 1890 and 1940. Source: Library of Congress
On the small island of Okinawa, Japan there is an active community of climbers consisting of US service members and local Japanese nationals. A favorite climb/boulder hangout is Gushichan beach on the South end of the island. Not only is this beach home to hundreds of potential bouldering problems and even a few sport routes, it is one of many significant WWII historical sites on the island. This beach is subject to busloads of tourists, typhoons, and multiple ocean currents. Inevitably, it ends up trashed.
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