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.

Worked again recently as a second shooter for Julia Sieber @ Sieber Studios. She immediately relates to people and seems to have an innate ability to bring out the photogenic side in people. Check out her work, amazing stuff.

Liz and Kevin had a beautiful wedding up on the North Shore, right on the sand at Ke Iki beach. You could not have asked for a more picture perfect afternoon and evening. The priest was about and hour and half late, but nobody seemed to mind too much (Hawaiian time, 'as why). Congratulations guys!

I'm getting ahead of myself here I know. I still have windsurfing and wedding stuff to post, but...whatevers.

Woke up super early the other day, (don't ask what got into me) and drove out to Sandys. Weird pulling up to an empty parking lot when it's usually bumper to bumper, door to door jam packed.

Sat around and watched the (crappy) surf for about half an hour, 5:45 to 6:15, and almost didn't bother to get in. Sun came up at 6:30 and the lighting started to look a little bit better so I figured what the hell, might as well go for a swim since I'm here. Loaded the camera in the housing, double check everything, and in we go.

Swam for about 45 minutes and managed to get one, half way decent image.

Oh water shooting. So frustrating, and yet so fun at the same time.

While spending the week on Maui, I met up with a friend of mine who was on vacation from the Netherlands. He'd been bugging me for a headshot for his personal website, and being completely worn out from an epic day of windsurfing at Kuau, I cruised down to the place he had been staying.

Real simple stuff here, natural lighting on the first one (right). Used a reflector and a bit of tweaking in Lightroom for the second one (left). Didn't even have to bounce light from the sun here, just used his shiny head. Thanks dude!

Oh ya, can't forget to thank the best assistant in the world, my dog Rocko.