Panoramic Series #5: The Beauty of Forests

I wanted to parallel the beauty of two very different forests with this series of panoramas. On the left is what I believe to be a banyon tree. I came upon this tree while hiking the Jack Ass Ginger trail.

On the right is a panoramic that I shot in Big Sur while adventuring a flooded creek off Nacimiento Ferguson road with my brother. The beauty of the red wood forests is something that is had to parallel but I think the jungles of Hawaii come close.

Panoramic Series #4: Kaipuu and Mahiai St.

Balancing the city lights and the evening sky was a challenge for this shot. I watched the sky for a number of nights to get the right moment. Finally I decided that the moment was going to be non-other than when I just went out and started shooting.

We live down the street to the right. Just above the Nissan truck on the 2nd floor with the light on. Life in the city of Honolulu has been treating us well.

Panoramic Series #3: Sunset over Diamond Head

I shot this on my way home from work one evening. We are looking towards Diamond Head from Hawaii Kai. It is really cool that I caught the sun setting this particular evening because the sun is no longer setting over Diamond Head today since Winter is bringing the Sun's course across the sky further South.

Musical Beginnings

I started playing the acoustic guitar in high school thanks to an old friend Tim Zuni who showed me the ways. I have since fallen for my sweat six-string and bring her with me almost everywhere.

Another passion of mine that began to take root in high school was digital photography. I had shot with film previously for a few years, thanks to my dad, who would let me use his old equipment. For graduation my grandma told me that I could either get a class ring, or put the money towards my first digital camera. There was no decision to be made, just a DSLR to be found. This was one of the first digital images that I took with my Nikon D70. I really thought it was neat looking back at the beginning of two passions that have come along way with me through life, or at least what seems like a long way 21 years of life.

Panoramic Series #2: Sun Sets Over Honolulu

Both of these panoramic images were taken from near the top of Tantalus Road above Honolulu.

I shot this wider panoramic initially, but I wanted to also get a shot that really emphasized the honolulu city lights. I had to wait for a while get the perfect balance between the sky at dusk and the city lights.

North Shore Waves at Rock Pile

After leaving the skate park on the North Shore of Oahu, there were some good sized waves breaking at Rock Pile beach. These may no look that big from so far away, but I am looking down on them. I could feel the rumble of the ground through the car tires when some of the wave would break on the beach.

I will get some shots of real huge barrels later in the Winter as the real waves start rolling in.

Panoramic Series #1: Kailua Sunrise

Recently I have become fascinated with creating panoramic images. Often times I am stitching anywhere from 4 to 9 images together to generate on final panoramic. What I have grow to love about this technique is the profound impact am image can have when such a vast perspective can be taken in all at once. This is the beginning of an on going series of posts of the panoramic photographs that I have created of the beautiful world we live in.

Kailua Sunrise - This was the first time I watched the sun rise out of the Pacific Ocean, 9/9/10 three days after we arrived on Oahu. It was amazing the way all of the clouds lit up the sky before the sun was even visible on the horizon with beautiful blues, pinks and yellows. There was no way I could take in all of that amazing sunrise in one shot, I tried, so I settled on these 8 to do the moment justice.