The Keahole coastline never ceases to amaze me with it’s complete uniqueness and hidden gems.
Highlight was chosen for Popular Photography Magazines Photo of the Day for January 27, 2014.
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A sunset from the rocky landscape of Keahole point.
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Standing on the edge of one of the many blowholes at the Keahole coastline during a magnificent 2014 sunset.
I spent at least 30 minutes examining the surf to determine where it was safe to stand during each incoming wave. Only twice was there a wave that surged to a point that would have soaked me and my gear. Without examining the nature of the surf I would have walked away wet and maybe hurt.
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[title color=”dark” size=”h3″] String Of Clouds has been chosen for Photo of the Day [/title]
[title color=”dark” size=”h3″] Hawaiian Paradise [/title]
On the far side of Mahaiula beach, aka Kekaha Kai, aka State beach, aka the beach with the red house on it, I looked back toward the turbulent waters of the ocean and spotted this calming scene. This day the waves were breaking randomly and chaotically. I couldn’t believe there were surfers out because it didn’t look fun, but it did look beautiful. The white wash from the crashing waves turned the water a calming turquoise blue, and against the deep blue sky the scene was simply beautiful. So, when I looked back at the far end of the beach, these bright green palm trees completed the Hawaiian scene. Today I didn’t even think about bringing my tripod along with me. I didn’t realize that I would want the opportunity to shoot a high depth of field with a low ISO scenic, so I had to improvise by setting my bag on a rock to rest my camera. To eliminate the camera shake when pressing the shutter I set up for a 2 sec shutter delay.
Olympus E-5, 70-150mm Zuiko with circular polarizer
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[title color=”dark” size=”h4″] A great Honor [/title]
I definitely wasn’t expecting to receive the honor of Photo of the Day by Popular Photography Magazine again, at least not for a while, since I was just chosen last Friday for my Crater Lake photo. I am grateful and excited. Thank you Popular Photography.
It is always a big surprise when I see the results of a long exposure. In this case is was the white surf that drew a pattern across the ocean’s surface from each crashing wave. Almost mimics the pattern of the clouds above.
Looking towards the sunset from Pine Tree’s beach I watched the incoming waves surround the rocks that act as islands in the water. I wanted to capture the behavior of the wash with a slow shutter as it surrounded the rocks and gently flowed back into the ocean. I capture the image in RAW format with an Olympus E-5 and 14-45mm zuiko lens and 0.9ND filter at f22 and 1.6sec. Post processing in Lightroom 3.
[title color=”dark” size=”h3″] Dramatic Skies [/title]
What an amazing sunset. From the moment I woke up this morning the sky was just amazing and I couldn’t miss the sunset. You would think that living in Hawaii there would always be these huge puffy clouds, bright skies, and amazing sunsets, but that hasn’t been the case for a while. However, so far, this year has been amazing for dramatic skies.
This shot is a view of one of my favorite places to go to relax and enjoy Hawaii.
1/4 second of movement can be so exciting. In fact, I love the look of it.
Waves crashing and receding during a stormy sunset from Honl’s beach. Hawaii.
by Christopher Johnson
Out on the coastline of Kohala I set up to shoot the water washing over the shelf line that was just below the water. I was fascinated by how the water was rushing off of the shelf in unison and the way that I wanted to capture this moment was through a slow shutter. Slowing the shutter down I knew that the water would seem as if it were caressing the rocks in a silky flow while enhancing the colors and creating motion.
Below is a video of the tidal surge over the shelf in which I took a moment of to create the shot.