Hawaii Finale
I’ve finally found the time to finish processing photos from last April’s trip to Hawaii. There wasn’t a lot, but the summer provided enough distraction to keep me from its completion. I hope you all can enjoy these photos. Better yet, I hope they inspire you to see such a beautiful place with your own eyes. See the rest of the collection on my flickr.
A Little House In Atlanta
I missed this house the moment I left on a jetplane back to Portland. If you’re ever in Atlanta, I pray you get the chance to meet the little birds who call this home. (more…)
Nashville and Atlanta
In July I spent a week in Nashville and Atlanta, splitting my time there between my sister and a number of old and new friends. I’m still processing through everything that happened, and everything that has happened since. All the words shared and worlds explored. August has been a busy month- both socially and emotionally.
Lets face it, these days I’m better at updating my facebook with photos from such trips, but I wanted to share a few more on my blog as well. Here are a few from the trip in an attempt to keep both up to date.
Andrew Stonestreet and Laura Dart, South Nashville
Coffee and checkers (more…)
Commence The Growing Of The Beards
For the past two years my brother and I have organized a group of men who travel into the [somewhat] wilderness to spend four days in communion with nature and each other. These trips originated out of a desire to organize a non-traditional bachelor party as well as an intention to foster some of the most important relationships in our lives (i.e., friends, family, nature) during the days we would otherwise be caught up in the parade of life. The trips usually coincide with the late summer, hurry-up-and-do-this-before-everyone-goes-back-to-school heat wave that hits the western-midwest. The reaches of the Rocky Mountains have been our destinations, and this year will be no different.
Last year we made a trek strait west from Colorado Springs near the Southpark region of Colorado. (See posts from last year’s trip here and here and here and some photos from the 2007 Mantrip here.) In fact upon summitting one foreboding peak range we could see the miles and miles across Southpark as well as back east towards Pike’s Peak. This year’s trip will venture further north into the Estes Park area and will include several confirmed veteran participants from the last few years as well as a number of friends who I’m excited will be joining us for the first time. This is an open invitation to anyone who may be in the area or may want to travel the weekend of Labor Day. (email me if interested) There are only a few stipulations, beginning with the following rules:
First, stop shaving your beard. Right now. Until you return home. The only shaving allowed from now until then is that which is done with a bowie knife.
Second, plan on leaving your cell phone and/or computer at home.
Third, bring your tobacco pipe or cigars.
Fourth, girls are welcome if they too can grow beards.
I sincerely hope you all can come along.
Me, Underwater
While in Hawaii in April, I of course met up with Blaine and Bethany for a day and that morning we spent with the turtles and fish just off shore near Kona. At that time of day, the turtles weren’t out to swim so we instead had fun taking pictures of each other with Blaine’s super-high-tech camera enclosure. He seriously gets some of those most amazing pictures with it, and here’s a few we shot that morning under water:
This one’s of Blaine:
That One Sunset That I Will Not Forget
Blaine and I stood on a cliff overlooking the green sand beach near Southpoint, Hawaii, on the big island. Each of us taking photos of this and that, avoiding the driving wind and the sand it brought to our camera gear. The sun was making its way down the western sky, but it seemed an instant change when the entire valley on both sides of the cliff glowed with the pinks, oranges, and blues of an incredible sunset. Anyone who knows such a moment knows that these photos do it not justice, yet I still post them if for no other reason, to remember.
Mt. Kilhauea
I consider our pitch dark attempts to get lava pictures of Mt. Kilhauea rather pitiful in comparison to Blaine’s photos that he hasn’t even posted yet. Trust me, just wait, they’ll make you wet your pants, and I’ll try and remember to link to his post when he finally does. Here’s one of the few he posted and it doesn’t even compare.
So anyway, a couple days into my Hawaii trip last month when I finally made it over to the big island, the Frangers and I made the most of the single day I was there and stopped by to snap some long exposures in the freezing cold of the mountaintops. (Yes, freezing cold in Hawaii) This shot was about a 30 second exposure, ISO 3200, the best I could do without a remote trigger. Man was it dark outside, but it sure produced an erie glow that we could just see enough of to orient a zoom lens one from about a mile away.
The Big Hawaiian Island, Photos Part 2
While in Hawaii a few weeks ago, I made a one day jump over to the big island. My great friends from Hood River, Blaine and Bethany were there for a few weeks after having shot a wedding. Naturally, I had to spend at least a day with them (on an island other than the people-packed Oahu) enjoying a day with the most adventurous people I know. Here are a few photos from the day, which had started off with Kona coffee, snorkeling off a lava beach, and later, journeying to the southern most point in the US and making a loop up to Kilaeua to see the lava glowing in the night. I’ll have more photos to share in a few days as I (slowly) get them edited, so please be a dear and check back soon.
One of the black lava rock beaches at south point:
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