Screen name: 
Hometown: 
Ravena, New York
Currently in: 
Okinawa, Japan
 
Traveling Next: 
Around Okinawa; all of it.
Favorite places I've been: 
Panama, Viet Nam, Philippines, S.Korea, Guam, Taiwan, Somalia, Kyushu, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo

Places I want to go to: 
The rest of the islands in the Ryukyu chain.

 
About me: 
Wildlife is my specialty, but culture, festivals and historical photography to help promote tourism are also in my bag of tricks. Published in a dozen magazines and working on more and owe alot to the folks I've met, right here, at Matador.

 
 
 
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by Andrea Smith | 2010/01/24

Hey! Thanks!!

Andrea Smith
www.andreasmith-photography.com

by Ryukyu Mike | 2010/01/23

Hey,
Thank you all. Never check my mail here I guess I'll try and get back by Feb 14th and wish everyone a Happy Lunar New Year !

Cheers,
Mike

by Traveleze | 2010/01/23

You are a great photographer. Give lot of inspiration. Keep post!

by XtremXpert | 2010/01/23

Yeah, I like the now photo too:)

By Ryukyu Mike  |  Location: Japan  |  12/30/09  |  Pics: 3

How do you keep  kids believing in Santa ?   A good friend of mine came over the other day and asked if I knew where he could put a story online about an experience he had with his seven year old daughter. Matador was my first recommendation, right here. Just open an account, throw on...

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By Ryukyu Mike  |  Location: Japan  |  12/17/09  |  Pics: 1

Yeah, that's right !  You heard me !  All week long I've been getting beat-up by girls 1/2 my age some, even not 1/3 my age.  They're rackin' up votes or Wishlists, whatever you call them, way faster than me on that Hawaii Islands Contest over on the Trazzler Channel.

So, last Friday...

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By Ryukyu Mike  |  Location: Japan  |  12/14/09  |  Pics: 0

After a week, or so of trying to get my Santa photo as my main picture in my gallery, it happened, today !

Inspired by VagabonderZ's Blog, I came back and decided to give it another shot, So, thanks for the inspiration, Carlo and Yvonne. I'll go back and try to comment on one of those blogs, PC's...

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