focalintent | Hawaii photos

My posting of hawai'i photos is going to be less narrative inspired and more based on grouping. The first group was the previous post, the sticks and stones. Dead trees in lava flows that are barely 35 years old. Walking around those flows was incredible.

elvendoll and I took a lot of camera gear down to hawai'i on this trip[1], more than we did to Costa Rica. We ended up both taking far fewer photos than in costa rica. Some of that was both of us being more selective in what and how we shoot. Another part of it was not having the cameras available as frequently. Still another part was the less frenetic pace of this trip permeated everything - including our shooting.

This next set of photos is of yulia with her camera - starting with catching her taking a photo of her shadow on the green sand beach (yes - green sand! It was amazing - and an incredible hike to get to it, too):

Earlier in the week we were wandering around volcanos - at one point we climbed down into one of Kilauea's craters - Kilauea Iki. In 1950 this was a lake of lava nearly 400 feet deep. Even today, there are still steam vents that you can walk up to. This is yulia on the floor of that crater, the two of us photographing each other through the steam. You can make out a hint of the rainbow in the steam that we could see:

We seem to frequently end up taking photos of each another - a different shot from inside that same crater:

Finally, I have two versions of this shot - but I like this one the best of the two. It doesn't show the view she was shooting as well but I find this picture to be very serene and peaceful and calming:

[1] For those interested - she was packing a Canon 10d with a 28-70 f/2.8, 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5, and 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6. I had a Canon 5d with a 24-105mm f/4L IS, 70-200mm f/4L IS, sigma 100mm macro, and lensbaby 2.0. In addition on the film side I had my zeiss ikon 6x9 folder and hasselblad w/80mm f/2.8, 40mm f/4, and 150mm f/4 as well as a 2x extender.