Tinman Hawai’i 2011
So in good spirit I woke up early Saturday morning to watch and take some pictures of the contestants participating in the 2011 Tinman Triathlon in Hawai’i. I should have participated but ehh…. next year 🙂
Back in the days….
I looked through some of my old photos from the early 2000’s. Found some good ones from the time I was in the Army. I remember the day I shot these. It was the first day of the year the entire sun was visible. Such a beautiful day!
I shot this about four months before the two previous ones. A beautiful autumn day.
Sunset collection
I figured I could start a little sunset collection. I’ve captured a lot of great sunset shots and would like to share some with you every now and then. Enjoy! 🙂
Beautiful people
I have had the privilege of being around a lot of beautiful people. I find it extremely easy to take amazing pictures of the people i spend most of my time with and I have so much fun doing it.
4th of July….
This post should have been all about fireworks, but I didn’t take any pictures of that 🙂
I caught a couple of people walking home after the firework show was over tho
And then we went hiking…
With nothing better to do on a saturday, some friends and I went on a lovely 6 hour hike along one of the ridges in on Oahu.
It should have been a perfect opportunity to shoot some great pictures but the weather gods were not on our side. I still managed to get a few decent shots and the result… well you’ll be the judge of that 🙂
Clear night
I was driving home from practice one night and saw this beautiful full moon. I took a couple of pictures and this one came out great.
Capture the moment….
Here are some random portraits I’ve taken during the last couple of weeks.
Enjoy! 🙂
Opteka test
We had a beautiful full moon tonight and it was the ultimate challenge for my Opteka 500mm lens. Well, I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed, but oh well, I kinda expected the result. This is taken with the 2x teleconverter on tho, which makes the quality even worse. At least I can see that it is the moon 🙂 
The dog is loose
I was a bit bored yesterday and figured I could look for good photo opportunities around the house. The backyard was full of geckos being chased by  our dogs so I tried shooting that but nothing came out the way wanted it to. I got a nice shot of one of the dogs tho 🙂
HDR – Photography version 2.0
So I figured out that i wanted to play around with some High Dynamic Range pictures. I needed some raw materials and headed towards Waikiki with my camera, and my not-so-up-to-par tripod to take some shots. I’ve always wanted to get some good shots of Waikiki’s skyline but never really looked for a good place to shoot it from until today.
So here is the result from that first (or should I say 5) try.
I played around with the settings and figured out that this surrealistic result was what best represented Waikiki today.
My second victime was a tree I was standing next to when I shot the above Waikiki picture. The result… well you decide.
I may have over-saturated it a bit, but given the light outside it looks 100% better than the real deal, and it is still kinda the real deal.
2-point-0 Photography 