Hawaii
Old Truck Overgrown With Bushes
I half hesitated to even put this one on – HDR always looks good with old rust and tall grass. The color has so many different colors for the grass. However, this is a pseudo-HDR as I took in in RAW format, but just did tone-mapping on it. What’s that you say? It looks blurry? Yea, that’s because it was. I’m a bit upset with the way it turned out because I didn’t use a tripod because we were on someone elses land. Still “alright”, but that’s all I give it, personally…
Long Black Road – Maui, Hawaii
This one was another stitched together shot I took but then couldn’t figure out if I liked it better in color or black and white. It’s a 8 foot long print, so if you could, go ahead and tell me which is better…
Pieced Haleakala – Maui, Hawaii
We went up to the top of Haleakala for the bike tour that let’s you coast for about 20 miles down the mountain top. I don’t bike much, but I figured it would be a good time to snap up a few photos. It turned out that I really enjoyed the bike trip down the mountainside. If you search through here you’ll see a lot of the photos I took right when I got my 20d – for the trip actually. This one was about 15 separate photos and just stitched them together in Photoshop. Yes, I know there are a handful of apps that do it for you, but I didn’t know about them at the time. 
Skitter Falls – Road to Hana, Maui, HI 2005
This one will always have some special meaning. It was a good find on our trip around Maui via the Road to Hana. We saw this waterfall from the highway and trekked in a little bit to see it. My goal with it was to catch the waterfall with a long shutter to smooth out the water, it worked nicely. I was knees deep in the water with my tripod and nearly fell over a time or 2, but the shot worked nicely.
Deadwood Beach, Maui Hawaii
After the ride on our bikes down Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii, 2005, we stopped at this store to pick up lunch, but behind the store there was this beach that they didn’t tell us about – had some really nice looking views…
Preying Mantis Party
I didn’t see a lot of preying mantis’ growing up in Montana; it was a bit too cold. However Hawaii seemed like the perfect place for a few (million) of them…
Spidertop Crop
So this spider was hanging out at a black sand beach in Maui in 2005. I had to bend the tripod to get it to stick for the closeup. Closeups can slip and blur really easy so I was in an awkward position, but the shot turned our really well I thought. I thought it unique, because the mouth looks eerily similar to an owl head…
End of the Road to Hana
Caught this one right on the other side of Road to Hana in Maui, 2005. It’s amazing how going back through your photos you can realize how much better you can make them look with a few touch ups. This photo was completely underexposed, but I really liked the composition of it so I dug around a bit with it to spruce it up. Mission complete.
Bike Ride Down Mount Haleakala
This actually was one of the most fun things I thought we did in Maui. They claimed a 28 mile bike ride which freaked me out. But it was more like a 28 mile coasting. I think I may have pedaled a total of about 4 minutes the entire ride. Certainly a unique trip and I got about 15 other photos worth something on it.
Well worth the money if you’re ever headed out that way. You get to see most of the island as it weaves its way down the mountain. 
And The Hawaiian Moths Came Swooping In
So during the honeymoon that we had before the marriage (long story), we had a room overlooking Black Rock on Ka’anapali Beach (Maui, Hawaii 2005) that had a large amount of these moths that would come floating in if we had the window open for any amount of time greater than 9 seconds. These 2 guys just sat on our odd colored/fabric’d bed spread.
They didn’t want to move so I figured they wanted to get a quick snap or 15 worth of fame… Here is that fame for them – congrats guys, live it up!
IMG_1730_ Maui, Hawaii, Hana Backside
I remember snapping this one on top of the jeep we rented looking back over my right shoulder. The sun was setting and I had to hurry to find that “last good shot” but the sun started setting faster than I could snap the shot. So the top right corner got a little more light than I wanted to let in, but being in the car, and running out of time, it made it tough to set up the way I wanted it. Can’t complain though, it turned out alright I think…
View Over The Pacific From Maui, Hawaii
Another piece off the backside of Road to Hana in Maui, Hawaii. It was tough to get an angle that didn’t have too much light in it as the sun was right in the lens.
Mount Haleakala Maui, Hawaii
A snap at the top of Haleakala in Maui before we started the bike ride down through – if I recall, we didn’t have to pedal all that much to go down 10 miles.
Old Hawaiian Barn in Black and White
February 2004 – A barn on the backside of Maui on the way to the Road to Hana – didn’t seem like anyone ever used it, but I’d have to say that the grass was actually pretty green and cut if I recall though. I can see the “green” part living in a tropical locale, but the “cut” part was interesting. I remember I tried to take a few photos from a shack that was near it – brush had taken over the building, but none of those photos turned out too well and therefore didn’t make the cut here.
