Hawaii 2 – A Big (Island) Story

So here we are at day 2

And we begin the post with a nice end of the day shot.
These types of trips you plan on picking a great spot for sunrise and sunset.
Well I think we got ourselves a nice sunset location.

There are a lot of rocky beaches, but this one was a nice sandy beach and I made it work.

Here’s some more stuff from the story of the second day.

Check out the full gallery of 28 pictures from the day 2 recap go here

This was only a few of the 1200+ pictures taken on day 2 (yesterday)

Cresting over the mountain, the unofficial west island sunrise.
Sunrise on the west side has some nice light but no color like I suppose you’d see if you were actually seeing the sunrise earlier in the morning.

Mid-morning holds some surprises on secluded beaches you get to with your 4wd vehicle

Mid-afternoon can be fun when clouds start participating a bit more.

Clouds block the sun but they’re just about to release their captive prisoner the sun, for that little gap between heaven and earth.
Can you spot where the sun is about to drop down below the cloud level?

Get your butt down in that water, get the camera low, not for the faint of heart, but it’ll make the great pictures.

Ahh the reflections!

Dang it people don’t even think of walking in the path of my picture…
…oh wait… now that I think about it… walk right in front of me.
That’s right, hold hands,… that’s cute!
Thanks for playing.

Foregrounds and fancy skies.

Why get out of your car when you can take fun pictures like this from the comfort of the seat of your car.

Bet you didn’t think I was a “Birder” (Bird photographer) – well I’m not, but if the bird is posing, then you shoot it… in it’s face.

This isn’t a bird… but he’s pretty cool none-the-less
This is my first experience snorkeling.
It was a traumatic experience, learning to get comfortable breathing with a snorkel, being in an unknown area, not having fins, being whipped around by the current, but the turtle made it all worth while.
Hopefully more to come.

Lot of these dudes just chilling.

Here’s the fine cast of characters.
This handsome stud is pretty cool!

This is Dustin just hanging loose on the see shore.

Thought i’d share a funky edit. Almost desaturated with funky white balance.

And the last picture of the day deserves to be the last picture of the post.