........and I couldn't make it up north because of school. Laaaaaaaame. At least we got to watch the final heats in my Regional Analysis class.

Congrats to Greg Long!

Late Sunday night, I ventured up to Waimea bay to camp on the cliffs and hopefully watch the 25th anniversary of the Eddie Aikau Invitational. We scored an epic spot, right on the side of the road, and threw the sleeping bags in the back of the truck.
Unfortunately 4:30 am brought with it a pretty steady stream of precipitation, and all three of us scrambled into the tiny of the cab for the rest of the morning.



When dawn broke, the massive surf was already here. Hundreds of people were already lining the cliffs and roaming the beach, waiting for the 7am announcement if the event was to go or not. Annnnnd.........not today. Not clean enough apparently. Still, plenty of huge surf rolling through. Hopefully Eddie goes tomorrow!

Looking back at the calendar, it's hard to believe that I've been done with my classes for almost a month now. Whoa. Never the less I've been keeping busy over on Maui, away from the hustle and bustle of Honolulu, and academic life of the last 9 months.

Even though it's summer time here, we were lucky enough to get some late season north west swell energy on our shores during the last week of May. I decided to load the housing up and go for a swim out at Ho'okipa while a couple of my friends were out sailing.

After surfing all morning, and windsurfing all afternoon, I had the energy left in my to swim and shoot for all of about 20 minutes. Not only was I busy ducking waves, but Jace Panebianco and Kai Lenny seemed hell bent on running me over on their tandem board as well. Ah well, not much to show here but some water shots and some tandem sailing carnage.

So I'm finally getting around to updating again. I'm not going to say I've been super busy on Maui, as that would imply that all I do is work...let's just say I'm trying to balance out all my time spent studying this last semester with time spent surfing and windsurfing now.

The last wedding I shot over on Oahu, at a private residence in Kailua specifically, was so personal I felt like I was part of the family being there. The ceremony was on the beach, performed by someone who obviously cared about their practice, infront of a small group of family members. After, the reception and partying was done at a private house just walking distance from where the couple said their vows. All under gorgeous blue skies

Lots of fun, lots of smiles, lots of dancing, and a great evening. Congratulations.

I have a friend attending Art school in Florence, Italy, organizing an art show for the middle of June. Somehow, she seemed to think that some of my images were actually more than just a bunch of bright colors and cheesy compositions, and wanted to display a few. Cool with me. Here's a glimpse of some of the shots that may or may not appear in the show. Hopefully we will see how the whole thing plays out in the next couple weeks.

peace!

April 23rd was the wedding of Jackie and Siggy, an Australian couple that decided that the North Shore of Oahu was the perfect location for their ceremony. I came along again as a second shooter, covering the groomsmen, other details, and unfortunately on this day, holding umbrellas when it was raining. The location, catering, and design were all amazing, but the weather was a bit, "misty." Funny I never thought my gear would get wetter at a wedding than when I take it out in the surf.

We made the most of it though, and things turned out great, not to mention that everybody in attendance was amazingly photgenic so that made my job easy.

And.... I'm pretty sure I was witness to one of the greatest first dances in disco history.

Stoked for you guys, congratulations!

Believe it or not I was spending another afternoon chained to my desk and text books when I happened to look outside. "Wow, this is looking like it's going to be quite the sunset," I thought to myself.

Photographers tend to refer to the hour before and after sunset as the "golden hour," where the lighting is more or less pretty stellar. For landscape photographers this is where 90% of money is made.

Anyways, I snagged the trusty tripod, camera, my favorite 12-24mm lens, a set of GND filters and took off to the beach. Most of these are at 12mm, f/8 and some where around 10 - 30 seconds. Even had a couple frames where I had to snatch the whole setup off the ground before it was washed away by a rogue wave. Fantastic.