More Sun!

Another picture of the Sun. This was taken about 10:30 am a couple of days ago, see how low the Sun is on the horizon!

Sunshine again!

Two weeks ago the snow on this road was two feet deep! Finally the rain came and washed most of it away and now the sun is here to melt the last of it...

Though Northern Vancouver Island is a beautiful place the winters here can be daunting with weeks and sometimes months of endless rain and overcast skies... It sure is nice though when the sun comes back!

It never snows here!

Quatse Lake Water Treatment Plant

It never snows here on Vancouver Island, or at least it didn't for three Winters in a row... Then this year it just won't quit! It started a couple of weeks before Christmas and hasn't warmed up enough to rain ever since. More snow in the forecast tonight.

 

Happy New Year

A snowy scene from the road up to Quatse Lake on Northern Vancouver Island.

Well it's official 2021 is done and we're at the begining of a brand new 2022!

Wishing my fellow bloggers and our visitors a Happy and prosperous New Year!

Playing with timelapse following the clouds into sunset

 I'm still learning a lot about timelapse video but as always, I buy all of the equipment and figure it out later! This was shot with the Nikon D850 on a motorized rail from my lanai.

No snow here!!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Northern Vancouver Island

This is a picture Stephanie took of our bottom yard about two weeks ago. It hasn't quit snowing or warmed up since... It's definitely going to be a "White Christmas" on Northern Vancouver Island this year!

- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -

Red Rocks Country.

 

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!