It has been a long time since my last post.  Sorry about that!  Well, these are from couple years ago when I was in California.  I need to take a break from work to have some fun with my camera.  I wish I could do this for a living like Ron.

Blue Dunnos and a Bird...

Just for the fun of it here are a couple of totally unrelated pictures. One from this afternoon and another one from last week. 

Jacaranda time!

The jacaranda trees are in bloom this month so I headed upcountry to take a few shots. A friend of mine and I decided to see who could get the best shots.

I'm going to tell you I won, no matter what she says!!

Daniel and the Cat

This morning on the Coal Harbour waterfront I came across Daniel firing up Joey's old D6 Cat.

I think it's been at least a year since the last time it's run...

I see in my Crystal Ball...

I finally got a chance to go out and play around with some crystal ball photography. After some trial and error I was able to get some interesting captures. The first three of these are as shot, no post processing except to turn the middle photo right side around.

The bottom picture I worked over in Photoshop before posting it.

Ron you need one of these, the shots you could get with one of these in Maui would be awesome!

Just splashing around

I was at the luau the other night and while the tourists were having dinner I stepped out to the beach to take a few shots. Who new goofing off at work could be so much fun!

Iao Valley

This is Iao Valley here on Maui. The Iao Needle that you see protruding into the sky used to be a look out point for the Hawaiians so they could see invaders coming. How they ever got up there is beyond me. I certainly wouldn't want to climb it!

The season is almost over

The whales are starting to thin out and will be gone by the end of next month. I'm already looking forward to next whale season to see what kind of photos I will be lucky enough to capture then.

I guess it's back to the water for fish and turtle shots now.

Looking down

This photo is not upside down, it's just a reflection I came across that I thought needed to be photographed.

There are things here I find new every day and I look forward to getting out and finding everything on the island that I can. Life is good!

Things are looking up

I always find it interesting to point my camera up in the air and then watch the people around me do the same thing trying to figure out what I'm taking a photo of!

Pals!

It's all in the details

Just an abstract shot I took as a peacock walked by me one day.

Yeti !!

I encountered this fierce snow creature on my way to work this morning and managed to get a couple of good shots before it was gone again. Don't know where my dog was at the time but he showed up soon after...

Sunrise, barely...

I took this picture within a week or two of the shortest day of the year. Usually the Sun is way high over this particular hill but on this day it barely came above the trees...

Less than a month until Spring!

A really big fish!

I was cruising down the highway on my way to an art show one day and looked out at the ocean to see this nuclear submarine slowly moving along in the channel.

The navy routinely runs training missions in the channel but you never, ever see a submarine surfaced in the channel. At least I never have in the 13 years I've been coming to Maui. I watched the submarine for over an hour cruise through the channel and out to sea. It almost seemed as if they were making sure some one, some where, new they were there. Kind of a "hey look, we're here" type of thing.

Normally I would think they were just doing something benign however the week before this I watched as two large military aircraft (they looked like C-130s) flew in the channel in a formation and only about 500 feet off the deck. The week after I saw the submarine I was on a whale tour and got buzzed by two military Huey helicopters. These three different encounters all happened about two weeks after the "accidental" nuclear missile warning scare we had here. Hmmmm....

Of course when I saw the rain showers in the background on Lana'i behind the submarine all those conspiracies thoughts went away. I just wanted to get a photo!!

Crazy skies!

This was the scene a few weeks ago in Coal Harbour... Crazy skies!