A few Sundays ago, I joined a small group of local photographers on a day trek with professional photographer George Lepp. Lighthaus Camera hosted the day and bused us out to Waimea Valley on the North Shore. The theme for the day can be summed up quickly: HDR - Bracket, bracket, bracket! Lepp has embraced the hot photographic trend and was eager for all of us to try it. Sure you can take a zillion images, but you need to later run the images through Photoshop or other similar apps to really see what you can get. And I haven't yet, which should surprise no one. This shot is from my phone, proof that I made the short yet tiring hike to the falls that day. Sadly it's not that far and completely paved, but always seems longer than they sell it.They promised lunch in the deal and I was a little worried. I'm not a picky eater; I simply do not like a lot of "normal" stuff. I had visions of cheap, deli meat sandwiches slathered in mayo and mustard. Yuck, yuck, yuck. (I guess I'm outing myself in my hatred of mayo here. It's beyond dislike. The stuff makes me sick.) But I was very pleasantly surprised. The organizers let us have our pick off the menu at the Waimea Valley snack bar. For a snack bar, it was surprisingly good. I bypassed the standard plate lunches and instead opted for the Vegan Taro Burger figuring this might not be something I can easily get elsewhere. It was pretty good - moist taro patty on a soft taro bun. I looked around at the folks having the Kailua pulled pork and teriyaki chicken plate lunches and they looked pretty good too. If you're planning a trip to Waimea Valley, I can recommend eating there without any hesitation.
2 comments:
sounded lovely, so glad you are taking photography trips. Sadly, mi pics from Ireland stink - I am still not totally practiced in my camera. Hilarious because as you point out here, one needs Photoshop or Lighthouse for post production at this point. Patrick took essentially the same pics as me, but ran his thru Lighthouse, tweaking the sky, 'burning and dodging' and his pics look AMAZING =HAHAHH. I have so much to learn, ahhh. You should look at his Flickr pics, link on my blog page. :)
Bummer E, about your pics! I hope to see some anyway. I don't think I could view a couple of the videos you posted recently. Not sure what was going on on my end. Will try again! Will also check out both your Flickr pages soon. :)
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