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Sometimes, it takes a second look to really see a photo. I blew right past this one looking for images to post on New Year’s Eve, thinking it wasn’t all that interesting, and just found it again today while I was doing some cleanup on my catalog.
A little late, but enjoy. Happy Valentine’s Day!
New Year’s Eve sunset, Keawakapu Beach, Maui, Hawai‘i. Here’s to a happy and prosperous 2011.
Aloha 2010…
Last Friday, I took a couple of friends from the mainland with me to shoot the sunset. On the way to Makena Cove, it started raining, so I turned the car around and headed toward North Kihei. We set up and started shooting, but then the clouds decided to follow us and we got sprinkled on there too.
We packed up the gear and called it quits. My friend Meliezza asked me to drop her off at Keawakapu Beach so she could meet up with some friends, so I started heading that way, and noticed that it was dry in that area. The rain clouds must have traveled right through it from Makena to North Kihei.
So we set up again and started shooting. Not the best sunset in my portfolio, but you never know what you’re going to get in the islands. Because the sun was behind the dark clouds most of the time, I was able to slow the shutter and get down low with the tripod to get some good motion in the water.
Happy Aloha Friday…
Sunset, Keawakapu Beach, Maui, Hawaii
Sunset, Keawakapu Beach, Maui, Hawaii
A bunch of us got together for an impromptu Maui tweetup at Kama’ole Beach Park III tonight to chat and watch the sunset. This is what we saw at dusk. Aloha…
By the way, are you following me on Twitter? If not, I’m @PeterLiu47. Looking forward to your tweets.
After tropical depression Felicia rolled through, the sun came out and I observed rapid and dramatic cloud movements throughout the day.
I’ve learned through years of shooting landscapes that you get some of the best stuff after storms, so I decided to set up at Keawakapu Beach in hopes that nature would display some of its magic and turn the clouds into palettes of bright colors.
I saw the sun disappear behind a huge dark cloud near the horizon and my heart sank, but I stayed in hopes that it might drop out of the bottom and at least give me a quick flare before disappearing behind the planet.
No such luck. I saw the fringes of an elaborate display of intense fiery colors behind the dark cloud, then it just fizzled out. I would have given anything to be behind the cloud during the brief show. I fired off a few shots, picked up my tripod and left. You win some, you lose some.
I downloaded the shots, picked one and posted it on my Facebook page to share with my friends with the caption, “What a Maui sunset looks like when it doesn’t cooperate…”
The resulting comment thread surprised me. What was a throwaway shot to me turned out to be moving to my friends, illustrating once again that you can fall into a rut sometimes with your expectations and forget what your work looks like to others.
What do you think?
I shot this sunset at Keawakapu Beach with some friends who were visiting from the mainland a couple of weeks ago, then flew off to my 30th high school reunion (yes, I am that old) and totally forgot about it (case in point). Enjoy!
Aloha…
Friday’s sunset didn’t look like it was going to amount to anything, but I decided to go anyway. The sunset itself was uneventful by Maui standards, but the magic happened afterwards. Usually the clouds are too dark and moisture-laden to do anything, but that particular evening, they flared just the way I always wanted them to.
Aloha…
Winner of the 2009 Monterey Bay Aquarium World Oceans Day Photo Contest
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