Alaska Waterfalls

Fords Point

Peacock

Accidents sometimes make for interesting results. Sunday my daughter Jennifer and I were driving through the little town of Pahala. We drove to a lovely Buddhist temple that Jennifer and Angelo like to visit. There was a service in progress so out of respect I resisted taking pictures of the temple. But there were several very tame peacocks hanging out. I can't resist photographing them when ever I come upon one. So, seven quick shots and we were on our way home. I didn't even pixel peep. When I got home and downloaded the shots all I got were black squares. Somehow the camera setting was on manual instead of automatic. I had very seriously underexposed all seven shots. Using Photoshop and Camera Raw I was able to get an image. It is very strange looking, lots of grain. I like it, reminds me of a tapestry. It is about 16 by 9 inches. Click on it and you can see it bigger.

John Paul II

I we approach Easter my thoughts go back a couple of years to when I was in the RCIA process. My sponsor was Skip Driscoll and in a way of saying thanks for helping me I made this bromoil transfer for him. I scanned a small 2x3 inch carry-in-your-pocket card, made a big neg, made a matrix and then printed it on light gray watercolor paper with purple ink I mixed up.It is about 5x7 inches.

Upper Rainbow Falls B&W

You say you want to see it in black and white? OK here you go. I have program that converts a color image in to a monochrome image that somewhat resembles what it would have looked like if I would have shot it with TriX. This is 16 x 10.5 inches. Click on the image to see it bigger.

Upper Rainbow Falls

I shot this with a 50mm f1.4 Pentax A lens.

Victory

One of my very early bromoil transfers. It is about 6x9 inches printed on Arches 300 lb watercolor paper with black lithographic ink.

Leonard Misonne

Leonard Misonne, Belgian, 1870-1943 is my favorite pictorialist. This print is listed on Ebay with a starting bid of $2000. It is described as a 16 x 20 inch carbon print which means it is a Fresson print which was his process of choice. He loved to make pictures in stormy weather and those that know say he never ventured more than a couple of miles from his house. By the way I will not be bidding on this so it is all yours.

Ti at Boiling Pots

Ti pronounced like Tea is a very common native plant here on the big island. You can find it in many sizes and colors.

Boiling Pots Falls

We have had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks. It has let up a bit now and one morning dawned somewhat clear. I grabbed my camera and headed to downtown Hilo to check out Rainbow Falls and Boiling Pots. A lot of water moving down the Wailoa river. The early morning sun from behind me helped by getting light into the shadows. I printed this 16 x 10.5 inches on Somerset Enhanced.

Anthuriums cont #3

The flower farm where these anthuriums are grown is Mountain View Anthuriums. It is about 2200 feet above sea level. Although anthuriums are grown all over this part of the big island the varieties are sensitive to temperature and amount of rainfall so the altitude of the farm determines what varieties do well. At 2200 feet they can grow the prized, Kozahara. It is a deep, deep red almost going to black.

Anthuriums cont #2

Red Obake. This one was about 10 inches long!

Anthuriums cont

They come in many beautiful colors. I really like the white varieties.

Anthuriums

Not everybody knows what they are.They are a very unusual and beautiful kind of flower. They grow very well in this part of the big island. Our daughter and her husband and family grow them in Mountain View HI and ship them to the U.S. mainland and Canada. I love them. I am going to show you a few. This first one is a Pink Obake.

A Very Handsome Poodle

Caffe, 1960's

A Very Ugly Duck

This duck works at the Black Sand Beach. He is a member of the clean-up crew.

Soledad Doors

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad

Tide Pool Black Sand Beach

St Peter's Catholic Church

This is a really small church. Maybe it holds 10 people.

Kahaluu is not far from Kona.

Yet Another Ketchikan Mannekan

Madeline's friend Delilah. I am becoming a mannequin addict. I'm checking myself into Rehab.

Ketchikan Mannequin

Do not sit on Madeline's chair.

Here Come Da Tug!

The little tug that could and did actually. Remarkable

Tug Up Tight

A bit too abstract perhaps?

Determination in Kallitype

This is a Kallitype print of the color image I posted earlier.

Classic Hale

I have photographed this old plantation house many times. I think I posted it to the blog before as well. This print was made with the Kallitype process. It is toned in Palladium, about 10x7 inches.

Main Office

Aerial Roots

These red stringy things are Aerial Roots. I saw this on an Ohia tree in the Volcanos National Park and I asked a park ranger what it was. She said that the tree’s natural root system was under stress, maybe it was damaged or maybe there was just not enough rain. Keep in mind that trees in the park grow in lava gravel. Very good drainage, maybe too good. So, when a tree senses that it is in trouble it sends out additional aerial roots high up on the trunk. This Ohia tree is in our yard, too close to the driveway I think.

Hoku Loa Graveyard

The grave stones and markers range from a pile of rocks with a wooden stake and a loop of beads without a name, to simple, large black slabs.

Most are large black slabs with no name or date.

Here there is a name but no date.

I think this is the latest grave up there, 1949 and one of few with a name.

Hoku Loa Congregational Church

This small stone church sits on a bluff overlooking the Black Sand Beach at Punalu’u about 55 miles South of Hilo. The church is dedicated to Henry Opukahaia, (1792-1818) the first Hawaiian Christian. He was living in Cornwell Connecticut in 1816 while there he became a devout Christian and worked very hard to convince the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to send missionaries to the Islands. Although he never lived to see it, the first Congregational missionaries arrived in Hawaii in 1820.


The church and the very old grave yard are surrounded by a low stone wall.


Great view of the Black Sand Beach from up there.

Anarchists At Large

The Big Island Anarchist League is taking applications for membership. Meet us at the horseshoe pit.

Nientendo Players

At the Black Sand Beach.

Save

Sometimes you get good advice from unusual places. Always stay alert.

More Refinery cont

Black and white balls

More Refinery

I find it interesting to think about the people that designed this machinery, built it, operated it. They knew what all this stuff did, how it did it any why it had to be done. Where are they now?

Ojai Refinery

Off the road to Ojai California is an abandoned oil refinery. Interesting shapes and colors to me.

Yet Another Bridge

The Golden Gate

Victoria Park

This bridge I can deal with.

Victoria Bridge

I am afraid of heights. Therefore bridges worry me. I would rather go under them than over them.

Heading Out

Container Cranes

Cruise Ship Port

Vancouver BC