The setting sun at Maui Lani
June 27, 2009 | Category: Places | Leave a Comment
The late afternoon sun over the eighteenth hole at the Dunes Golf Course at Maui Lani in Wailuku. This is the view from the Cafe O’Lei restaurant.
Tags: Cafe O'Lei, golf, Maui Lani, The Dunes Golf Course
Insadong Gongju
May 31, 2009 | Category: Culture, Places | Leave a Comment
We visited Insadong on the last afternoon of our tour of Korea. As we were about to get back on our bus a performance troupe began lining up to start a parade through the streets. I was able to grab a few frames of this child made up as a Korean princess before we were whisked off to our next destination. This image was taken in the mid-afternoon of November 8, 2008.
Tags: Gongju, Insadong, Korea, Seoul
Diamond Head from Round Top
May 30, 2009 | Category: Places | 2 Comments
Diamond Head is on the eastern end of Waikiki. Both the crater and Waikiki are iconic emblems of Hawaii to the world. One of the best places to view Honolulu is from Round Top.
This photograph was taken last year, February 24, in the morning and is a part of a series of images of Diamond Head.
Tags: diamond head, Round Top, Waikiki
Columns of light at Shokudo
May 14, 2009 | Category: Interiors | Leave a Comment
I don’t know what to say about these two images taken last night.
Tags: lanterns, light, shokudo
This was taken February 16, 2009 at Waimanalo Beach Park for Leo’s books on conflict resolution using mediation. The Koolau Mountain Range stands in the background. Laada is a Parson Jack Russell.
Tags: conflict resolution, Jack Russell, Koolau Mountain Range, mediation, Parson Jack Russell, terrier, Waimanalo Beach
Somewhere between Tokyo and Hakone No. 5
May 3, 2009 | Category: Motion, Places | Leave a Comment
Space collapsed to a tenth of a second.
Tags: Hakone, Japan, railway, Tokyo
Shokudo
April 27, 2009 | Category: Places | Leave a Comment
Lanterns draw me.
Somewhere between Tokyo and Hakone No. 11
April 8, 2009 | Category: Motion, Places | 2 Comments
Last year, on the way to Hakone, I became enraptured by how time and space collapsed as we traveled quickly along the railway.
Tags: Hakone, railway, space time, Tokyo, trains
Ka’alawai Beach in the morning
April 3, 2009 | Category: Places | 2 Comments
Ka’alawai is the beach between Black Point and Diamond Head in east Honolulu. The people of Hawaii have long enjoyed the waters and fishing along this stretch of beach. Surfing is also popular here at “Brown’s Surf Spot.”
From this beach, looking east, is a view of Shangri La, the former home of heiress Doris Duke.
Shangri La, an Islamic-style mansion designed by Marion Sims Wyeth, rests on 4.9-acres on Black Point. Construction began in 1937, after Doris Duke’s 1935 honeymoon which included travels throughout the Islamic world. For nearly 60 years afterwards, the heiress commissioned and collected artifacts for the house, forming a collection of about 3,500 objects.
Shangri La, now owned by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (DDFIA) in cooperation with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, is open to the public for tours.
2 Comments | PermalinkTags: Black Point, Brown's Surf Spot, Doris Duke, Ka'alawai Beach, Shangri La
Honolulu Harbor
March 1, 2009 | Category: Places | Leave a Comment
Here are two similar views of Honolulu Harbor taken yesterday, February 28, 2009. Both views look westward from Bishop Street. One of these includes the Hawaii Superferry manuevering to dock.
The harbor was originally called “Ke Awa O Kou” by the Hawaiians (The Harbor of Kou). The harbor was named “Fair Haven” by westerners 1796, “Honolulu” in Hawaiian. A good history of the harbor can be found here.
Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii Superferry, Honolulu Harbor
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Fuji-san as seen from Kawaguchi in the late afternoon. 15 November 2007.
To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson.
