Waimea Falls Park and Botanical Gardens, 5/27/18

This place is so beautiful and with intermittent rains it added raindrops. I also enjoyed the overcast weather - yay less blown out highlights.

I used a tripod and did manual settings to capture these water flows.

Kapiolani Community College 5/13/18

The weather was perfect this Mother's Day. I enjoyed photographing this garden at Kapiolani Community College beginning around 7:45.

Capturing bees

Butterfly creating a huge challenge.  I did put my camera on continuous mode.

It became apparent that this place is difficult to maintain. Mr. Moriso Teraoka had a wonderful garden.

Lanikai Sunrise and Hoomaluhia, 5/6/18

Rise and shine - meet at Lanikai @5:30 am.  Derek, Dewey, Milton S. and I made it there.

I tried different ways of making photos - the first is a slow shutter speed to make the water soft. The next 2, I added an infrared filter. It did not turn out infrared but I am happy to add a red tone to give this iconic place a different take. I used the Canon t5i with a 16-35, 4 lens.

I found out, I actually needed to desaturate and then bump up the contrast to create the infrared for this photo with a slow shutter speed.

Before going into Denny's for breakfast, Milton S. and I knew the sound of the chicken was coming from up in the tree. Lol - try and find it - it is there.

At Hoomaluhia, I stayed at the top and used my Fuji x-t10 with the 18-55 lens. I chose to focus mainly on patterns - thanks Dewey for that suggestion. 

Just had to get in a flower.

By 10:45 am,  it was time to go home for a slumber.