Archive For The “Hawaii” Category
A giant banyan tree found along the Pipiwai Trail on Maui, Hawaii. Although I shot this photo with the intention of leaving it in color, during my processing I just wasn’t getting the look and feeling I wanted until I converted to black and white. Aperture: ƒ/5 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 15mm ISO:…
My second attempt at HDR photography. This particular image is a combination of four exposures, (shadows, midtones dark, midtones light and highlights). This particular grove can be found at around mile marker 7 on the Road to Hana and is truly beautiful in early morning light. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 55mm…
My girls, enjoying the sunset as we prepared to sit down at our first family Luau. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 15mm ISO: 800 Shutter speed: 1/50s
This is my very first attempt at an HDR image. I don’t usually like HDR, but while I was in Hawaii I took a few photos with the specific intention of trying my hand at HDR processing. This particular image is an HDR combination of three exposures (highlights, midtones and shadows) that I then processed…
This is a closeup (not macro, of course) of some of the bamboo on the Pipiwai Trail on Maui, Hawaii. The entire forest was beautiful, with hundreds of photo opportunities to be found every few feet. I could have stayed lost on the trail for hours, maybe even days, just taking photographs of everything. Aperture:…
This is the first bridge leading to the bamboo forest along the Pipiwai trail in Maui, Hawaii. The forest is huge and full of magic and beauty, but also pretty dark and foreboding. The sound of the bamboo swaying in the wind is soothing and mysterious, it almost feels as if the trees are talking…
This is one of the many wind-blown trees on the backside of the Road to Hana. The wind was amazingly strong as I took this photo, there’s really nothing to shelter you from the constant winds in this area, but it was a stunning view from the top of the hill. Aperture: ƒ/22 Camera: Canon EOS…
This is an old pier on Maui that just begged me to take its photo. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 40mm ISO: 100 Shutter speed: 1/160s
Another photo of the Bamboo forest found around mile marker 7 on the Road to Hana in Hawaii. Aperture: ƒ/9 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 10mm ISO: 1600 Shutter speed: 1/15s
This is a shot I took while wandering within a bamboo “forest” on the island of Maui, Hawaii. This isn’t the place most people think of when they talk about the bamboo forest on Maui. That forest is found on the Pipiwai trail on the backside of the Road to Hana. This particular bamboo forest is…
This is Fagan’s Cross, found at the top of Lyon’s hill in Hana, Hawaii. While the view from the top of the hill was spectacular, I thought this photo of the road leading to the cross was the most interesting shot I got while there. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 12mm…
A closeup shot of one of the beautiful rainbow eucalyptus trees found on the side of the Road to Hana. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 250mm ISO: 100 Shutter speed: 1/30s
Another sunset from the top of Mount Haleakala. The structures on the left are massive telescopes. Aperture: ƒ/22 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 15mm ISO: 100 Shutter speed: 1/4s
These are some of the female hula dancers at the Old Lahaina Luau. The show was better than the food, and the food was pretty darn good. Aperture: ƒ/1.4 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 30mm ISO: 1600 Shutter speed: 1/160s
The setting sun from the top of mount Haleakala, 10,000 feet above sea level. It is astounding how cold it gets as you drive up from the base of the mountain. The temperature drops from 87 degrees Fahrenheit at the base, to 45 degrees at the summit. But the view… Simply amazing. Aperture: ƒ/22 Camera:…
As can be inferred by the title, I took this photo while enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet dinner at the Old Lahaina Luau. The food was good and the dancing, set to the theme of the history of the hula dance, was entertaining. The only thing missing was the more flamboyant fire dancing that can be…