Candy Cane Lane, 12/24/10

It is so heartwarming that families decorate their streets with lights and with things that remind us of Christmas.

Erick and I were disappointed that we could not find a particular street in Kapolei for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. However we knew how to get to Candy Cane Lane in Aiea. Isn't this house just Christmasy?

At another house, the owner pointed out this darling carousel.


Across the street, I enjoyed shooting this display. The movement of the hat caused this cool effect. The rest are samplings of what is on Candy Cane Lane.



On the eve, Merry Christmas to all.

Nick's family, 12/5/10

Nick, it was fun taking pictures with Erick. You have a beautiful family.

Aren't they a cute family! What a joy it was to be part of this photo shoot. The little one was such a trooper. Hee hee, I am sure she is thinking, "I am tired".

Fun at Hilton Hawaiian Village, 12/21/10

Derek and Milton S. met me at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Lagoon.

I never get tired of shooting at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, look what I found on the side of Rainbow Tower facing Diamond Head.

Cool huh, how apropos!

Always checking for different angles.

Since I intentionally only brought my Panasonic Lumix ZS3 - I started to check out my Scene Mode.

First I tried "Panorama Assist". It is really cool, after taking the shot the next shot has a faint image of a portion of the previous one. You can choose: left to right, right to left, up to down and you know the last choice. I just shot 2 images.

Using Photoshop in CS4, I made a Panorama. Hee hee, I got to go back and see if the first area was curved.

"Pin Hole"

This one is just a macro shot.
Not until I saw this pic on my computer did I realize there were coins beneath this heron's feet.
Spent some time with this wheel.



What a fun day, need to go back Derek and Milton S.

Tom Servais and Kelia Moniz, 12/18/10

Milton of "Eyes of Hawaii", a photography club that I belong to, provided a photo shoot with famous surf photographer ~ Tom Servais.

The waves at the North Shore were not very high but we very fortunate that Kelia Moniz was surfing. As Tom pointed out she is extremely graceful and surfs well. We could not take enough pics of her.

I tightly cropped this , she had so much fun, smiling all the time.

A crop of the above pic, again to show how happy she is surfing. I wish the waves were higher, she would have looked even more terrific!
Those who didn't get a chance to come out missed out. Amy and her daughter left before this group shot. Also Ross was not in either, he was helping to shoot. Milton, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to shoot with Tom Servais; he certainly was very kind and willing to share his knowledge with us.

Tom thought he would be just teaching us how to shoot surfing shots but he was extremely happy that Kelia was there and he got awesome shots. Look at his camera, the biggest one. Hee hee, mine is the smaller one with the bag hanging from the tripod.

Please check out the links I provided they are the ones with the yellow fonts.

Just a pic of a sign made from a broken surfboard.

Tonight, I also posted: Waikiki Night Happenings, 12/4/10.

Waikiki Night Happenings, 12/4/10

Erick and I spent an evening checking out happenings in Wakiki's night scene. Check out his blog We were first hoping get a beautiful sunset but clouds were in the way.

Not far from our sunset shots, we came across Joe the fiddler. We really enjoyed listening him play. He even played Japanese and Chinese songs for us.

It was nice seeing Waikiki all decorated.


A little window shopping...
had to tell Erick, let's go.
Even the silverman became gold for the season.
This magician added water to the bowls, drank, showed them empty, and then showed water flowing from them. What!
There was another person who juggled basketballs and other tricks with the basketballs. We didn't want to distract him, so we didn't take any pictures. He was really talented.