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Iao Needle State Monument is an iconic location on the Western side of Maui. It is also one of the wettest places on Earth which can make it challenging to get a good view. I made my way there at sunset and was rewarded with some pretty nice conditions. The portrait composition is what really...

I spent Thanksgiving with my family in Maui (yeah, tough life) and made the trek to the top of Haleakala for sunrise early in the trip. Here's the first photo I processed from that morning, taken along the Sliding Sands trail. This is both a focus stack to get everything sharp and an exposure...

Being a lava photographer, mother earth does have her times when she decides enough with the pictures. So in the mean time I am out looking for other subjects to shoot here in our islands. Recently I got the bug to photograph our endangered native Hawaiian birds. Slowly they are declining...

This was a shot I chased for years. Finally this year it all came together. Tide, sunset, clouds... My second post on this site. Been browsing around and have found some amazing images! Hope you enjoy.

Not much land in this "Landscape" IMG_7775 by Zeph posted Jun 5, 2018 at 8:48 PM C&C Welcome

From the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, along the Northeast shore of the Big Island of Hawaii... _VA11582 by Zeph posted Jun 5, 2018 at 8:48 PM _VA11590 by Zeph posted Jun 5, 2018 at 8:48 PM C&C Welcome

My wife and I enjoyed a number of nice sunsets from our condo on Maui last month. This one just got better after the sun went down. Makena-Surf,-Maui,-4.20.18-(279)-Pano by Jim Dockery posted May 28, 2018 at 4:58 AM

I've already posted a few shots from my recent trip, here is a final set in B&W. Sand & Water Turtle in the shallows Flying Home

It's taking a while to sort through all the chaff to get to the gems from my week of snorkeling. Here are a few more I just finished. Thanks to the comments on the last set I looked for those that separated the turtle from the background to find these. Maui-Snorkle-4.20a-(128) by Jim Dockery...

I've now been home long enough to process some RAW images on my computer (not iPad like the last ones). Color balance is tricky - I've been trying extra yellow and magenta to off set the blue and green underwater. Maui-Snorkle-4.16.18-(257) by Jim Dockery posted May 1, 2018 at 8:44 AM...

Taken on Maui a couple weeks ago. Maui-Snorkle-4.20a-(529) by Jim Dockery posted May 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM Maui-Snorkle-4.20a-(406) by Jim Dockery posted May 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM Maui-Snorkle-4.20a-(494) by Jim Dockery posted May 3, 2018 at 11:31 AM Maui-Snorkle-4.20a-(499) by Jim Dockery...

From a nice beach on the west coast of the big island. Any thoughts are welcome.

Big Island Sunset by Zeph posted Oct 14, 2017 at 7:04 AM Hard to go wrong with an ocean sunset...

Road side shot of Waimea Canyon, pretty wild light. The west side of Kauai, Hawaii.

Waimea Canyon on Kaua‘i

Laupahoehoe Park

Six second exposure.

Recent flight over the lava fields creating lava abstracts. Crazy fun to do while shooting in a Helicopter.