Shark's Cove

This month's theme week is "A Day At The Beach". It features a day Kathy & I spent on the North Shore with her mom, brother, nieces and nephew, and aunt and uncle.

Today's photo is a wide shot looking toward the west, and the high tide during a spring northerly swell.

Happy Birthday America!

Happy Birthday to the greatest country in the world!

Happy Independence Day!

Carry Shot

One of the most popular poses for Japanese tourist wedding is the carry shot. Of the 5,000 Japanese weddings I have videotaped over the past 20 years, there have been some funny ones: a bride was dropped when he lost his grip, several brides were strong enough to carry their grooms, one groom lost his footing and his bride fell on top of him, and a few grooms walked a bit while carrying their brides occasionally spinning her around. Amazingly, I don't really see this pose at local wedding photo shoots.

This couple had a late afternoon wedding on the day I went to Kaka‘ako Park to shoot the surfing pix (there's more to come). The photographer brought the couple out to the park from a nearby wedding chapel to get shots of the lucky couple with the surf in the background. I was several yards away when I turned from the surfing photos to get this shot.

Royal Poinciana

Another ubiquitous flower in Hawai‘i is the royal poinciana ...

Canada Day Kickoff 2009

Today marks the kickoff to the 2009 Canadian Football League regular season! It's also Canada Day, their Independence Day, in the "Great White North". And it's also the beginning of the second half of 2009.

Today's photo features former Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Warren Moon. He was working for Westwood One Radio, as a sideline reporter during the 2009 NFL Pro Bowl. I thought it was pretty cool to get a photo with one of my favorite quarterbacks.

During his six year CFL career, Moon won five Grey Cups (all with the Eskimos), passed for over 21,000 yards with 144 touchdowns, and was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 2001. Moon continued his football career with four NFL teams in 17 seasons, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Warren Moon still has one of the top career passing yards, over 70,500 yards, during his entire pro football career.

The Edmonton Eskimos begin their 2009 campaign hosting the Winnepeg Blue Bombers tomorrow, and my favourite team, the BC Lions travel to Regina to play the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday. One of tonight's games features a rematch of last season's Grey Cup with the 2008 Grey Cup champs Calgary Stampeders hosting the Montréal Alouettes. The second game of today's double-header features an all-Ontario match-up with the Toronto Argonauts visiting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The World Is Not Flat!

This just proves the world is round! :-D

Playing around with a 15mm fish-eye lens at Kaka‘ako Park.

Wow! The first half of the year is complete ... so soon! Oh my gosh! Have a blessed second-half of the year!

Size Matters

Kathy & I buy our eggs from Peterson's Upland Farm, in Wahiawa, and its one few places where people can get super jumbo eggs. The last time we had gone to buy our dozen super jumbos, they gave us two pee wee eggs.

Today's photo shows the size difference between a super jumbo and pee wee eggs.