Day Eight Maui '09

Sorry no picture today. To tired. We drove past Hana to the Seven Sacred Pools. About 12 hours round trip. We are hoping to make it to Haleakala to catch the sunrise Friday morning. There is a storm warning out for Friday so we will see about making the summit for sunrise. They call the storm that is coming in a "Kona" storm. The storm and winds are supposed to be so bad that they have canceled school for all of Maui county for Friday. We will keep you updated. Aloha!

Day six Maui '09

Hey everyone, aloha. Sorry about not posting yesterday but Ang hasn't been feeling good so we had a easy day yesterday so she could recuperate. She is doing much better today. As you can see we went whale watching today. Amazing is all I can say. These animals are incredible. We were fortunate to have some breach for us. The weather continues to be fabulous. We are both tan and not looking forward to Minnesota winters.

Thank you every one for your comments we look forward to them every day. Well we are off to dinner. Its Italian night!!! I wont be posting tomorrow as it is our 3 year anniversary and as important as all of you are to me, there is one special lady that has me all to herself tomorrow night. Aloha from Maui

Day four Maui 09

Rain, Rain. We were woken up to heavy rain and thunder this morning. We waited out the rain than ventured out. We drove around the western half of the island today. Stopping at the Dragons Teeth. This was very cool. Spent some time here. Had to cross a golf course to get to it. I think it was the one that they were playing the Mercedes something or other Maui classic. They got over us walking across there fair way to go take pictures of lava rocks. Anyways It cleared up later in the day and they are talking about good weather for the next few days. Aloha from Maui.

Day Three Maui '09

Just a picture from yesterday. Aloha

Day Two Maui '09

Not to much picture taking today. Had alot of things to do and not much time to explor. We did have a nice walk on the beach at sunrise.

Day One Maui '09

Well we made it. We are in Maui!!! Thanks for checking in. Our flight was good. No problems. Seattle was Seattle. It was cloudy and looked like it could rain. Imagine that. Maui is nice, warm compared to the –5 degrees we left this morning in Minnesota! Long day traveling. Now we start our vacation. We don’t have any plans for Friday yet but I should have some photos for you then. Aloha from Maui.

Maui

Well as promised I have something for January. I will be in Maui for almost 2 weeks and I am planning on posting a picture or two each day!

I think I have all the camera equipment packed that I can take with me and have the plane still able to get off the ground. When you start out taking pictures with a DSLR and only have 1 ore 2 lenses its easy to pack for vacations. You take everything your have! After many years and lots of money spent on cameras, lenses, Tripods/monopods and all the filters, rain covers, well you get the picture, you accumulate a lot of stuff. More that is possible to take with you when you fly. So what stays and what goes? That’s a hard one. You try and cover all your focal lengths with your zooms. But than you pick up your fisheye lens and think this could make some interesting shots. Or witch macro, 50mm or the much larger and heavier 100mm? Decisions decisions. I think I have my kit trimmed down enough to make it semi portable and still give me options for coming up with some interesting compositions. It’s still probably more than I need or should take but you just never know!

So check back later this week and see some of Maui. If you have never been all I can say is you are missing out. I will try my best to post at least once a day so check back often and leave a comment or two. I would love to hear from you.

Aloha and we will talk to you from Maui starting Thursday the 8th.