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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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!