Haleiwa-11/16/13, Wahiawa Botanical-11/23/13

I miss blogging, just been busy. But life is very good.

Our Eyes of Hawaii, photography club met in Haleiwa which is at our North Shore to photograph the sunset and moonrise. I spent more time taking pictures of the sunset and the interesting moss along the shoreline. (Hence, no moon shots.)  Later, we had dinner at Cholos, a Mexican restaurant - known for their margaritas. Did we pass that up? Nope.

 Wahiawa Botanical Garden…

Yay, very few mosquitos - Derek, Milton S., Roger, Curtis, Linda and I were so happy about that.

 One thing about photographers, we will go low, high, sideways to get our shots.

 Digital SLRs are fun, you can make a day shot look like a night one.

Our fun ended with lunch at a Korean Restaurant. 

Side note, I stopped at Kilani Bakery to get their brownies before going to the garden - had to make sure I got some, because they run out quickly. So Yummy.

Cactus Garden at Kapiolani Community College, 10/27/13

What do you get with 3 guys and 2 gals? Fun. Although we went on our own around the garden Mr. Moriso Teraoka created - we had fun laughing when we did meet up.

Just a portion of the Garden.

Mr. Teraoka's invitation is so creative. 

Here is what he does with their poems - it is a "po.e.tree". Many people have written poems that now the poems are grouped by countries, states as well as islands.

Here are 2 versions of this picture- black/white and color. Not sure which one is better.

Here is link to another post I did: Kapiolani Community Garden, Cactus Garden, 11/12/11
I have a picture of Mr. Teraoka with my friends as well as the birds. I heard Mr. Teraoka does not come on Sundays, therefore we did not see him this time.

Milton S., Derek, Roger, Linda and myself look forward to our next outing in November. Where?

Perspective and Boo/Benji's Adventures, 10/26/13

In my previous post/blog, I mentioned that I am taking a photo class with Linda. Scott Kubo's assignment for us was to take pictures from different perspectives. The first batch are mine.

The above picture was actually taken from the back of this tree. The opening can't be more than 18 inches.

These are Linda's.

Our next assignment, I feel is even more challenging. Choose a color and depict it.

Linda is very creative and extremely talented - I got permission to share the adventures of Boo and Benji.

 This was actually Boo and Bobby.

I thought this was cool.

 I was wrong... LOOK at this one, it's even more cool!