Storms on the horizon

The storms never made it to us last night but they did give me an opportunity to take some photos. Normally I would have been in bed but I decided my lazy butt needed to get out and get some shots.

That sinking feeling

 

Two cameras paid of again for this shot. I was set up with a wide angle lens on my D700 and a zoom lens on D300. If it wasn't for the zoom lens I would have never got these shots. The clouds were too far of in the distance for the wide angle to give any detail to them. So on the fly I switched to the zoom and was able to catch the sun just as it was setting into the cloud bank on the horizon.  The V.O.G. (volcanic ash, sulfur and other gases release from a volcano) made for some interesting sunsets while we were there. It would make the sky turn some of the darkest oranges I have ever seen in the sky during a sunset.

Ripples in the sand

The wave action makes some nice landscape underwater. The hard part is staying still long enough to get the photo since the waves are constantly moving you around.

And then of course you have to deal with the locals getting in your shots!

Taking a Dive, Part Deux

For some reason I find myself being fascinated with the way sunlight reacts under water. From the streaks of light to the reflections and shadows on the water's surface, it brings out the fact you are in a completely different world.

And then of course you get slammed against the reef while daydreaming and you remember this is not my world, I should be paying more attention to what I'm doing!

Taking a dive

Just some random shots from the water that I took on a couple of different days.

I really do need to get out and take some new photos!

Leiing on the Reef

Eagle eye!

I spotted this pair a couple of days ago and shot a couple pictures before the male flew off leaving the female to keep an eye on me while I took a few more shots.

Low Tide

I was playing with the GoPro 4 one evening just to see what kind of photos it would take. I mainly bought it for action shots and not things like sunsets but I was curious. I stepped out into the ocean at low tide and held the camera just above the water and took a few shots.

They were a little crooked, which wasn't any fault of the camera, but that was an easy fix in photoshop. For a tiny little camera it takes pretty good photos.

New Growth

We're just barely starting to see the spring growth around here but on the palm trees in the pacific they seem to grow all of the time.

I don't quite know how palm trees grow but this looked just weird enough for me to take a photo.

Taking a breath

Up to the surface, take a deep breath and then back down again.

The day in the life of a Hawaiian green sea turtle.

Lofty perch

Varoom!

Thank goodness for Photoshop!

Just for the fun of it I took a really mediocre picture from a dark and overcast day and did my best with it using Photoshop... Notice the ugly brown waves now have a slight green tint and the little rocks on the beach have a bit of color not to mention the clouds have more life to them. Now imagine what fun in Photoshop a person can have with a good picture to start with!

Thank goodness for Photoshop!

The color version

Just because Paul was curious!

Clouds

It was close but the sun set just before the clouds moved in and took over the sky.

It was nice sitting on the beach waiting to see what was going to happen though.

It's always Spring....

...in Hawai'i!

Just another reason to go there in the middle of winter.

Happy Spring everyone!

Sorry I haven't posted much of anything lately... Between one thing and another I realize I've been quite busy, much busier than I really want to be. It's definitely cutting into my hiking, fishing and photography time. Guess I need to learn to "Just say NO to responsibility"! :)

Making Waves at Sunset

I was sitting on the lanai one night having a cocktail and decided to point the camera towards the sun and take a few photos.

The sky wasn't good at all for a sunset so I was being a lazy photographer, shooting from my chair instead of actually going to the beach.

Attitude

Yep, I would say he has it. 

With a look like that he must have thought Paul was taking his photo!

I don't know what kind of bird this is. He was hanging around the palm trees looking for food.

Texas State Tournament.

This is my son Jonathan at the Tournament last weekend to qualify for the upcoming National Championship in July.  He brought home the Silver Metal, lost in the final round in overtime.  In the past 10 years between my 2 kids in Taekwondo, I have taken over 50K of pictures of them, and other kids in the same school.  I find it's very difficult to take good quality pictures of you own kids during sparing or miss all the good actions shot, but not on other kids!