After 3 years of absence due to Covid restrictions, the annual Shinnyo Lantern Floating festival returned to Oahu, Hawaii this Memorial Day again. Shinnyo-en is an international Buddhist community and teaches “reality, or the true nature of all things”. The red lanterns provide light and guide the souls of the deceased toward peace. The light […]
Bolivia 6 – Parade & Finale
The Republic of Bolivia was founded in 1825. Although Spanish is the official language, there are also 36 Indigenous languages that are officially recognized. The indigenous people felt they were being ignored by the country’s political leaders, and it is estimated there are between 40-70% of the 12 million population are indigenous and minorities. In […]
New Year’s Eve 2022 in Cuenca
New Year’s Eve in Ecuador is unlike anything we have seen elsewhere in the world. Though muted this year, compared to many pre-COVID years, it was still worth a walk around town to see the creative minds at work. Every year, families and groups create their own manigotes, which are paper maché dummies in various […]
Peru – Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca is a UNESCO heritage site and is the highest navigable fresh water lake in the world at an elevation (12,507′). It is also the largest lake in South America, bordering Peru and Bolivia. There are an estimated 70 – 114 small floating islands, with the bulk scattered in the shallow depths of the […]
ShakaCon Backstage
We were asked to photograph another charity photo event last Wednesday night at the Polynesian Cultural Center. There were five different categories we were asked to document. This was the second event we helped on the Shaka Project, which is making a documentary on the origin and history of the shaka, a Hawaiian gesture of […]
Honolulu Pride Parade 2022
Last Saturday was the annual Pride Parade in Honolulu celebrating the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. There has been no parade since 2019, due to COVID, but has otherwise been annual since 1974. The parade went along Ala Moana Boulevard then along Kalakaua Avenue fronting the beach, from Magic Island to the zoo, and took […]
Chinatown Art Festival
The Plein Air Painters of Oahu (PAPO), led by Mark Brown, was invited to showcase their plein air paintings at a Chinatown street fair yesterday. Approximately 20 painters from our group participated in the fair. The organizer was DAC (Downtown Art Center, in the Chinatown Arts District in Honolulu). The show was called “The HEART […]
Video – Festivals in Ecuador
Since joining the Eyes of Hawaii photography club in Honolulu, several people were asking me about what it was like to live in Ecuador. Being a photography club, I decided the best way to explain it was by creating a slide show / video for them. In looking over our photographic resources from our living […]
Video – Toraja
I created this video / slide-show for our Honolulu photo club (Eyes of Hawaii), to show them what we experienced when visiting Toraja this past Summer. This was a culture that is beyond anything we have ever experienced before, or even expected to still be active in the 21st century. I am not sure I […]
Hukilau Reenactment
The Hukilau event in La’ie last Saturday was staged for a documentary film on the shaka gesture. Volunteer photographers were recruited and provided with a shot list that may be used for the documentary produced by Bizgenics in association with Henry Kapono, a Hawaii legendary performer and song writer, who was nominated for a Grammy […]