Hawaiian Adventure continued.....

Well i continue to sort through and process the photos that i took on my recent trip to the islands. So far its been pretty fun looking through what i got and evaluating how well i captured my images and what things i can do differently next time. I came back from the trip a little bummed that i didnt get as many photos as i had in previous years because of the bad weather but i have been pleasantly surprised to see that this was not the case and i have more good photos than i originally thought. As a warning to all of you, i will be posting a lot more hawaii photos in the next few weeks. So if youre sick of seeing hawaii photos please feel free to not follow along, i wont be hurt. They say that every photo has a story behind it and i can tell you that this is very true, and while i could sit here and tell you the story behind every photo we would be here forever. I know youre all just here for photos so here you go. Enjoy!

A new blog post this way cometh.....

A new post will be coming your way later today with more hawaii photos. Stay tuned :)

Hawaii.....The Panoramas

One of the things that i have really gotten into and have enjoyed shooting is Panoramic photos. The beautiful landscapes of the Hawaiian islands really lend themselves well to this form of shooting. While i can pull of a Panoramic photo there are still many issues to work out and its an area that i continue to grow in. Here are some of the panoramas that i have currently worked on and are pretty much finished........but im sure that ill go back and re-edit them or scrap them all together. Enjoy!

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Kauai.....the family photos

Life has many many blessings, we have been privileged to have experience a great number of them. This year we were blessed beyond measure to once again be able to go back to hawaii, but even greater still we were able to fly out my mom and one of my sisters to join us. My nephew and brother in law came along as well, it was incredible to be able to share such a beautiful place with my family. On top of that i am grateful to be a photographer because it gives me the ability to capture many of our silly moments and great adventures forever. all in all i have very little to complain about, my life is really something like a wonderful dream. even in its darkest and most frustrating moments there is more to be grateful about than not. Here are some of our wonderful moments from our time in Kauai, ill update this post with more photos as soon as i edit more. Some of these are re-edited photos from earlier posts. Enjoy!

Back in the office

Im back in the office now, no trips are planned until december when we go to australia for a month.......unless we take a spontaneous road trip or something. Anyway, i have been looking forward to being back in my office and spending sometime going through some of my images from hawaii. I have been editing and re-editing some of the images that were previously posted on the blog. I hate to edit on my laptop, but its nice to have the ability to update the blog while on vacation to let people know what we are up to. Those photos are always posted as a disclaimer though, letting them know that they are not the final versions. Now that im back in my office i can edit in a much more controlled environment where i have my monitor calibrated and ambient light under control. So since im pooped and i know you came here for pictures ill leave you with photos from Hanalei Bay on the island of Kauai. Some of these are re-edits and other are new ones. Enjoy!

Big Island........adventures?

My time in Hawaii has come and gone, i was home for less than a week and we left for South Carolina. Now im back home and trying to settle in. Hawaii was amazing, my wife and i were on Kauai for 2 weeks and my family was able to join us for one of those ( check earlier posts ) My wife has allowed me to have an extra week on the islands the last few times we have gone, where all i do is shoot shoot shoot. Last year i was on kauai and had a blast shooting different places on the island, this year i decided to go to the Big Island. I was really looking forward to the possibility of shooting the volcano once more and exploring some areas on the Hilo side of the Big Island. Alas this was not meant to be, not to long before i left, the floor at Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater collapsed and the lava stopped flowing into the ocean. Still i was hopeful that it would pick up again, once again it was not meant to be. Still it was not a loss, i would still have to opportunity to explore this beautiful island and get some cool landscapes the lava would just have bene the icing on the cake. Apparently i didn't get the memo that mother nature was royally pissed off at something because from the minute i landed in Hilo it was nothing but rain! EVERYWHERE!! I realize that im in the tropics and the islands can get their fair share of rain, im used to that, but nothing like this. Im used to having maybe an hour or 2 of rain or maybe even an entire day with it. This was constant non stop thick gray clouds and torrential downpours everywhere i went. The rain would stop once in a while but the cloud cover was so thick that the sun came through for a total of maybe a few hours the entire week i was there. Even on the Kona side of the island it was pouring and thick clouds there too, the clouds where very beautiful but there was no light to add drama to anything. What can you do though, sometimes you roll the dice and lose. My shooting strategy just had to be adjusted to shoot whatever i could. On top of it all i had a massive and debilitating headache the 1st 2 days i was there, not to mention the countless injuries and mosquito bites i had received on kauai. This is not me complaining about my trip so please dont take it as such, but it was a little frustrating. The rain did bring some very incredible benefits though, not being able to go out as much i was able to focus a lot more time and energy to developing friendships with 2 great buddies of mine on the Hilo side. My attempts to run away from the rain by going to Kona allowed me a couple of awesome days with Blaine and Bethany Franger, 2 great friends that i had not seen in a long time and their beautiful baby girl Ellary. Such moments where an incredible blessing to have. The rain in Hilo also meant that the rivers where going strong and i was able to go out on my last day and get some shots of beautiful streams and jungles. looking back on it and having had a little time to process things i will leave it at this.......photographically it was an ok trip but personally and relationally.......it was one of the best trips i have taken by myself, i wish that jen could have been there to share it with me. Mahalo to my buddy Tom for his incredible hospitality and Bruce for our many times we got to go get some grindz. Love you brothers! To Blaine and Bethany for putting me up for a couple of nights and for just hanging out and Blaine for finally being able to go shoot with me. Had a great time with you all, hope to do it again soon. Aloha