I quite busy these days as work is steady and plentiful. I’m shooting assignments weekly as well as pushing myself to shoot personally, even if it just means wandering around town snapping pictures.
I’ve got lots of images to post but I can’t publish many of them due to embargos, etc…so please check back soon as I will update my site and the blog in the near future.
I do want to list a few that will never be published except for here:
Working on a job for the New York Times and came across a monk seal sleeping on Sunset Beach. Monk seals are not common to see and they are federally protected…so you can’t get close. I’ve been close to one once as one was sleeping near a path to a beach in Haleiwa and a surfer quickly came up to me to warn me that she’ll bite.
This one seemed like a male as it was much bigger than the one I first saw several weeks ago.
The two sunbathers in the background are just an added touch to my sleeping beauty.
Canon Mark II
70-200 F2.8
Odd enough, Japanese tourists think everyone in Hawaii speaks some level of Japanese. As for me, I can understand as I think everyone has some understanding of English when I’m abroad but its a given that the world listens to some stupid American/British pop band. I mean who doesn’t know Brittany Spears!
Two Japanese girls dressed in kitschy plastic Hawaiian leis and fake flowers on their ears…they make up a view of many young Japanese women who visit Hawaii and find themselves dressing and acting a part uniquely Japanese…an over the top “Hawaiian-ness” that is beyond normality within Hawaii. Its not just the Japanese which will wear gaudy flowers and clothing, many Westerners who would never dare wear a flowery Aloha shirts or skirts find themselves, as couples, dressed the same. I’ve seen many white couples dressed in Hawaiian shirts and dresses that match. I’ve seen families all dressed the same.
Its unique to think a vacation can allow you to act a way you would never do elsewhere. Very few locals wear gaudy Aloha shirts outside of Waikiki yet Aloha wear is standard in the office…but the business Aloha shirt is tamed compared to how tourist walk around Hawaii. Its just a Waikiki thing…I’ve never seen well traveled 2nd home condo dwellers in Maui wandering around obnoxiously. Those types are obnoxious in their own way…
Getting back to the girls, I snapped a shot for them and I got my own. The girl on the left moved at the last second but I think it added to the shot.
Leica M6, 35mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN
Yes…dear followers…FILM is not dead.
My buddy here is from Nepal and was part of a group visiting Hawaii to put on an art show of Nepalese art at the local museum. I was invited to a small party where I got a chance to shoot the Nepalese. This guy just happened to be taking a group shot for all of his buddies and I turned and saw him with all his cameras.
Canon Mark II 1Ds, 24-70 F2.8.
My pork can…I love this shot. There are pockets of homeless living around Ala Moana Park and I walked past a couple who were napping under a tree. I saw past their camp a park bench which this can stood, fork and all. I can’t imagine where it came from or exactly what was in it or whether it was fit for human consumption…but I saw and snapped.
Leica M6, 35mm Summicron, Kodak 400CN
