August 1, 2009
June 26, 2009
Flights Leave Every Day
I see it’s been a very rainy and cold spring so far on the Mainland this year. Especially the East Coast. It isn’t very often the grounds crew at the U.S. Open figure so prominently in water removal! Just in case you’re getting tired of that weather here’s what it looks like in Waikiki this summer.
March 24, 2009
Tutu Goose
In a post last December I have a picture of a participant in the Honolulu Marathon from a recent year. He’s wearing a goose tutu. Look for yourself if you don’t believe me.
It never occurred to me I’d see the same outfit again. I was wrong.
Maybe they are part of a not so secret society.
February 14, 2009
Now a shameless plug for Hawaii Tourism
Driving around the eastern end of Oahu gives you a lot of great spots to view the coast of Oahu and across the Molokai Channel to Molokai and West Maui. This time of the year the lookouts are filled with people hoping to see whales cavorting in the local waters. You might see a small geyser of water spraying into the air as a whale exhales through its’ blowhole. When the surf is kicking up you can see a geological blowhole in action at the Blowhole lookout. I took this photo recently from nearby Sandy Beach.
January 17, 2009
January 13, 2009
January 10, 2009
Lightroom Presets
Two great features of Lightroom are it’s ability to create virtual copies that exist only within LR and not on your hard drive. Then you can take the copy and apply a preset (a group of settings) in this case a combination of Develop settings to come up with different treatments for an image. You can let your fancy run free.
The LR preset for this image is called Neg Kodak VC 160 warm. It’s actually designed to convert your color negatives just copied with your digital camera for a Kodak VC 160 film. This is a Point Curve Preset by radical edits to the Tone Curve. In order to subvert Lightroom’s parametric Tone Curve, you must either edit the Tone Curve in Adobe Camera Raw or edit the Preset by hand.
You can easily create your own or some websites sell them or you can find free ones. This was downloaded from Inside Lightroom
January 7, 2009
January 1, 2009
1st Post of the New Year
As the year waned I took the opportunity to visit the Christmas displays at the Honolulu Hale on New Years Eve. That’s city hall if you live on the mainland. The picture in the previous post is the entrance to city hall. A unique feature of celebrating Christmas on Oahu is the displays prepared by the different city offices. During the year these are the stereotypical anonymous government workers but come the Yuletide season they get to show creativity thru individual displays of Christmas spirit.
I wish I could have visited a little sooner. This year along with the Christmas trees the offices also created imaginative Gingerbread houses reflecting the holiday in Hawaii. A few of the houses, like the Board of Water Supply were collapsing from being on display for a month. Pictured below is just one example of a house withstanding the rigors of time.
To see more just click on the picture to take you to the Gallery.
December 31, 2008
Happy Holiday and a Great New Year
Took a final stroll through the Honolulu Hale Christmas display on New Years Eve
