Colors of Okinawan Cuisine Photo Gallery by Helen Betts at pbase.com

Colors of Okinawan Cuisine

Some of the foods that make Okinawan cuisine one of the healthiest in the world. All taken with Sony DSC S85, F707, F717 or V1. For more of my pictures of Okinawa, go to http://community.webshots.com/user/helenpb_

Rainbow Repast	Rainbow Trio	A Fish of a Different Color	Naha Fish Market
Blue Buddies	The "Eyes" Have It	Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder	Not Your Everyday Lobster
Not Your Everyday Crab	Dried abasah	Open wide...	Irabucha
Gold	Sticking out in the crowd	Mixed bag	Irabucha
Coming out of its shell	Ise ebi (like a lobster) severely cropped close-up	Zori ebi (so named as they resemble Japanese slippers)	Blue gold
Blue group	Yellow	Shells red	Beauty is More Than Skin Deep (Red Dragon Fruit)
Beauty is Only Skin Deep (white dragon fruit)	Purple Sweet Potato Rhapsody	Okinawan beni imo (purple sweet potato)	Beni Imo Buns
Greens in Order	Greengrocer's Delight	Goya	Waste Not, Want Not
Okinawan delicacy	Pouku (Spam) Tamago	That famous Okinawan food...	Saataa Andagii (severely cropped but delicious!)
Mutt and Jeff of the Apple World	Oki Pineapple	Three Apples	Awamori (Okinawan liquor) tsubo

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Walter O. Koenig	PM reply	21-Jan-2012 19:16
A wonderful colorful gallery. The images, especially of the fish are fantastic. "V"

Yen Baet	PM reply	25-Jan-2009 17:55
This gallery is making hungry! Great shots!

Guest		29-Dec-2008 19:12
SAATAA ANDAGII!!!!!!

dineman	PM reply	05-Jul-2008 22:08
Hi Helen oh my god it's amazing gallery i never see the fish like this nice colors and work Congratulation for this gallery big vottttttttttttte ;-)

Zaid Kurdi	PM reply	27-Apr-2008 18:00
Wow.....Outstanding gallery,Wonderful work,thanks alot for sharing.......V.

Denise	PM reply	06-Jun-2007 17:14
Hi Helen, My granddaughter Hope and I spent quite a long time yesterday checking out your galleries and this gallery in particular. The colors, shapes and fish are remarkable. You truly outdid yourself! Hope had many questions about Japan and I knew right where to go ;-)) She just turned 5 and you can't give her enough information about other countries. Your galleries are a fabulous learning experience!!!!!!!

KC		28-Sep-2006 06:37
I'm living in Okinawa now, only by chance because my husband is stationed here. This has been a dream of mine because my mother is from here but has lived in the US for over 32 years now. The photographs are absolutely beautiful and have subsided any homesickness for the U.S. THANK YOU!! By the way,I love the "mutt and jeff" photo. Just ONE of the large apples is more than enough for our family of four.

Fong Lam	PM reply	27-Aug-2006 03:57
Stunning colors and wonderful compositions.

Konica Minolta Users	PM reply	19-Jun-2006 21:06
wow! this is gorgeous!!! And many thanks for your comments on the sony challenge!! cheers Barbara

Tony Babauta	PM reply	31-Dec-2005 16:38
Beautiful colors, as always!

Shu	PM reply	04-Nov-2005 21:02
There are some stunning images here, Helen! (I LOVE color!) shu

Mako		12-Dec-2004 20:09
Thanks for the memory back home! It's great that while I'm in USA, I can still enjoy my hometown, Okinawa. Thank you.

Selvin Chance	PM reply	01-Aug-2004 08:03
Beautiful shots. Being from Hawaii some of these are quite familiar (SPAM is equally revered here). Yor renditions are superb. Aloha

Don Northup	PM reply	05-Feb-2004 04:01
I am a fish lover/breeder and I still lovce this gallery. This gallery gets my vote! Cheers

Jill	PM reply	15-Oct-2003 16:02
From a culinary view, cant commment being that I have not tried some of the foods photographed...however, the visual aspect is absolutely beautiful. The colors are so vivid. Did you try the White Dragon Fruit? I can imagine it succulent and sweet. A true artist you are in creating a appetite!

Matt Reichel	PM reply	24-Sep-2003 01:46
Absolutly stunning photographs! Those colors are fantastic, I really enjoyed looking through these photographs. You seem right that Okinawa is a photographer's paradise. I must make it there one day.

Helen Betts	PM reply	02-Sep-2003 13:46
Thank you for viewing my Okinawan food pictures. No, the pictures have not been altered digitally except for resizing and sharpening -- the colors are really as they appear, honest! That was one of the best things about living in Okinawa -- the brilliant colors and light. Really a "photographer's" dream. Helen

Guest	PM reply	01-Sep-2003 19:57
hey, did you digitally change those pictures? and did you take them, theyre really cool. i wanna know

Frank		04-Aug-2003 01:28
Helen, I've enjoyed your pix the most, especially the seafood images give me goosebumps :-) Beauty all of them...

Guest	PM reply	31-Jul-2003 18:27
hi helen. will you came Turkey in sept? see you...

Guest	PM reply	23-Jun-2003 07:32
Nice colors! Makes me want to eat more fish!

Guest	PM reply	26-Feb-2003 00:41
Great colors here...You have some great shots!!!

Guest	PM reply	01-Feb-2003 06:12
The color of your photos are very very attractive. I had never seen such colorful fish. I enjoy watching them.

Guest	PM reply	14-Aug-2002 21:07
ugh.. i'm glad i'm a vegetarian... wouldn't want to actually eat such bright colours.

Ron Goldberg	PM reply	23-Feb-2002 22:02
Helen, This gallery and many of your other shots are spectacular! As a marine biologist from New England, I'm amazed the colors of those fish! Also, thanks for the kind words about my Japan gallery! These S-85s let us take some great shots! Best wishes! Ron

Tigadee	PM reply	09-Feb-2002 14:07
Oishi! Wow, what incredible range of colors, tectures and shapes and sizes you've captured! Beautiful and amazing! The fishes are brilliant although I wonder how tasty coral fish are. In "The Eyes Have it", are those the famous Japanese 'puffer fish' delicacy?

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