Ao Dai

 

My Brothers!

 

It has been awhile guys!  Missing all my bro’s!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Morning rain on Maui

 This is another time-lapse from the Nikon D850. I even managed to get a rainbow in this one.

This was two and a half hours of taking photos every five seconds.

Sunset at Big Beach

 

This is Big Beach, also known as Makena State Park on the south end of Maui. This shot was actually taken looking away from the sunset. On this particular evening there wasn't much happening where the sun was going down but behind us it turned into a pretty good show.

 

Timelapse photogoraphy with the Nikon D850

 The Nikon D850 has the ability to shoot and put together a time lapse in the camera. I have been playing with this some lately because the possibilities for time lapse here are just about endless.

This time lapse was taken from my lanai last month. This is two hours of photos with a photo being taken every eight seconds.

More from Maui

 

 

Whale season is officially over here in Hawaii but I was able to get out a few times before it ended and do some flying with the drone. These three shots were from March and April.

 

Aloha from Maui!

 

 

Aloha!

 

It has been a very long time since I posted anything. Life has been keeping me busy here in paradise. Of course the pandemic hasn't helped much either.

I haven't done much in the last year photography wise but I do have a few things that I am going to post and I have officially started back taking photos with my new camera, a Nikon D850.

 

This particular shot was taken with my drone just a couple of days ago.

Hopefully there will be lots of interesting photos to post soon.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A couple of views of Hardy Bay. It was the shortest day of the year a couple of days ago, Already looking forward to the longer days and warmer weather! 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

Hope this coming year is better than the last...

 

 

Sunrise over Secret Beach

 

 

I'm starting to really like this drone flying! This is the sunrise from the south side of Maui looking back towards the sun. The HDR feature on the drone seems to work really well. This is technically a 360 degree shot, just folded out from one end to the other.

 

There are limits though because there are places they won't let you fly them, like in national parks. Not without jumping through a lot of hoops to do so anyway. Something I'm not willing to do right now.

 

This bottom photo is of my partner as she looks at over the top of Haleakala Summit. It was taken with a real camera! You can see the trail that takes you down into the volcano on the side of the "hill" she is standing on. They finally opened the national park for hiking so we've been trying to hike every trail there is. Hiking at 10,000 feet is exhausting!! The elevation change on this particular trail is around 1500 feet down and of course back up.

 

 

 

more of Maui from the sky

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I took these at the far south end of the island over an area where the last lava flow happened here. I didn't hike in as far as I wanted but I plan on going back next week and getting all the way to the far south end.

These were taken just south of La Perouse Bay.

 

More from the air

 

 This is definitely a learning process but I'm starting to get the hang of it. I do get very nervous when flying the drone though, I'm not use to not having the camera in my hand and I have been afraid of crashing it.

 

 

Skyview in Maui

 

 

Learning to photograph with a new toy. I bought a drone last month and I'm finally learning how to fly it properly.

 

I haven't crashed it,

 

yet!

 

The Wave. Kanab, Utah.

I have been waiting for over 4 years, and many visits at the park office to get pick to go in this place.  They only allowed 20 people with a permit to visit this place a day.  To get a permit, you'll have to selected by Lotto system.  There's 10 people will be selected online, and other 10 people will be selected walk-in the office in Kanab, Utah.
In the past, there will be over 100 people applied at the office, so my chances is very slim due to tourist from other countries.  Also, if I apply online, I would compete with other people around the world.  So you know my chances is nearly zero.
Due to the Pedemic, there are only around 40 people applied when I was here for five days, and finally got picks on the 3rd day.  Unfortunately, one of our friend wasn't feeling well, so we couldn't stay here for the sunset.  We didn't want to take $15K helicopter rescue our friend.   

Night Time in Hana, Hawaii

 

I had the opportunity to go camping with friends for a few days in Hana and although it rained during all of the nights we were there the skies would occasionally open up and show some stars. This shot was taken about 3:00 a.m. I had a window of about 30 minutes to take photos before the rain came back.

I'm headed back in about two weeks to try it again.

 

Angry skies from Page, Arizona.

North Shore Sunset

 

I guess if you have to be quarantined from the world there could be worse places to be in!

Happy Aloha Friday

 

We are still quarantined fromt he rest of the world but the beaches are empty! Except for the turtles.

 

Spending a little time in the ocean to relax and destress.

Good morning Maui!

 

I took a little walk upcountry this morning as the sun was coming up. It's not palm trees and ocean but Maui does offer 11 of the 13 eco-systems in the world.

I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.