The lack of verbosity

In this blogging experience I find that I lack the gift of gab at times so here are some pictures to enjoy.

Road Trip and protected species

This weekend I went on the local version of a road trip, which equates to driving around the Island. The day began in a bright sunny fashion and ended in a downpour, not unusually for this time of the year.

We did however get to see endangered species the Hono or the Hawaiian green sea turtle, called so because their adipose (fat) tissue is green. In the video below you can see one swimming in the water near the shore.


Honu Near The Shore from Kristen L Ewell on Vimeo.


We also saw a Hawaiian monk seal according to the volunteer she was pregnant. She hardly moved just enough to keep her snout out of the water

A pregnant Hawaiian monk seal endemic to Hawaii from Kristen L Ewell on Vimeo.


It was a great day not be at work weather is raining or not here are some picts from Kawela Bay


Aloha
Kris

First Friday and the 5D MKII

This weekend I wanted to test my new 5D MKII in nighttime situations. Once a month on the First Friday of each month there is an art festival in Chinatown from 6pm to 9pm. My goal besides getting out of the house was to go out photograph with no flash to see the quality of what I got out of my new canon. I must say I had a blast and was quite pleased with the quality of the photos.

To start with check out this little video of a display that was projected on to another bldg. Yes I did hand hold the camera to test the video function, but I didn't want to carry my heavy tripod with me. The quality was excellent!

Below is the owner of Charlie's Native Enterprises and Shell lei's and some of his amazing work. These photos are straight out of the camera just resized for uploading to the web.









Lastly here is a shot of the Hawaii Theater, it is so nice since they have refurbished it.



Final verdict Charlies photos were taken at ISO 5000 when enlarged to 300% there is very little chromatic and luminance noise. Hooray especially for when the full moon arises.

Aloha Kris