Up High

If you look closely you’ll see a little dot in the upper right of the picture near the top edge.  The hang glider is over 2000 feet high.

 

I heard it snowed in Portland Oregon this week

 

 

Makapuu Panorama

                                                                               A panorama of Makapuu looking across the Molokai Channel to Molokai and West Maui

Fishy Sentinals

Fishing Poles lined up at Makapuu

Kapiolani Park

Last Saturday morning I went to Kapiolani Park for the Hawaiian Scottish Festival. The two day event started that morning and I went to see what photo opportunities I could find.  Kapiloani is a large space just a frisbee throw from Waikiki Beach.  It’s almost in constant use with organized games of soccer, rugby, and baseball.  Netball had an international tournament in 2006 in the park.  With so much room a family can picnic there with no worries an errant soccer ball will land in the pupus.

 

When’s a Panorama not a Panorama

When it’s square after your crop it down.  This one is made up of 15 photos to encompass the cloud formations over Kanehoe.

 

When only a panorama will do

Last August waiting for my hang gliding friends to land at the Kaupo Beach LZ there were some great cloud formations to the north of us.  However, it just couldn’t be captured in one shot.

 

Hawaiian Canoe Racing season

   From time to time I’ll be on Kamehame Ridge helping my Hang Gliding friends launch themselves into the sky.   Eleven hundred feet below me the faint sounds of outrigger canoe paddlers grunting out their cadence reach me as the paddlers and support boats move across Waimanalo Bay.  It’s one of the long distant races to challenge the stamina of both Men and Women. If you want to watch the 2010 races , this link will connect you to the schedule OHCRA 2010 Regatta Details.   Here’s a photo from my vantage point on the ridge of the 42nd Annual Duke Kahanamoku Race last August.  I have two things working against me in taking these shots.  First I’m hand holding my zoom lens (the sensor stabilization in the A700 only goes so far) second the lens is for a full frame camera on an APS-C size sensor and some of my shots get soft and diffracted.

 

 

 

Pretty Flowers

Cloud Base

Cloud Base