Honokaa Sunset Sky

Honokaa Sunset Sky Enhanced, originally uploaded by macprohawaii.

Photo of the Day for December 3, 2013. This picture was originally shot on Thanksgiving Day, November 28 in Honokaa Hawaii.

Via Flickr:
IMG_6192B - Enhanced using Fotor app for Mac OSX.

Photo of the Day: Sunset from Ala Moana

Sunset from Ala Moana, originally uploaded by macprohawaii.

This was shot several months ago using expired Kodak 400 ISO color film in a Yashica Electro 35 mm Rangefinder camera. Scanned to digital.

Photo of the Day: Playing with the Sun

Photo of the Day for November 14, 2013.

Today's "Photo of the Day" look quite similar to yesterday's photo. In fact it is from the same series of "Sunset at Kaka'ako" photos that I shot yesterday. The reason this photo was chosen was to highlight the effect and software that I used to get the image.

The photo was manipulated with a piece of software called Fotor. Fotor is an application that runs on Mac OSX, Windows 7 and 8, iOS, Android and online. This software can create a number of special effects with digital photos including collage, HDR, high contrast, intense color and lomo to name a few. I applied several effects to the image above to achieve this look. Isn't it nice?

Fotor is a free app available for the aforementioned platforms. You should try it.

Photo of the Day: Today's Kaka'ako Sunset

November 13, 2013.

The blending of the sun, clouds, sky, sea and surf made for this beautiful photo late this afternoon at Kaka'ako Waterfront Park.Photo by Mel. Camera used: Canon Powershot S5 iS.

Here's another sunset shot:



More Hawaii Sunset Photos on my Flickrstream. Thanks for stopping by.

July's Last Sunset

Sunset @ Magic Island, by macprohawaii. Via Flickr

Since there were no blog entries for the month of July, I've decided to just cap the month with this series of sunset shots, taken on July 31. Enjoy. More posts are coming in August.

Sunset's Majestic Colors

Sunset's Majestic Colors, originally uploaded by macprohawaii.

It was a perfect day to shoot sunset pictures in Honolulu this past Thursday as the high clouds filtered the late afternoon light as the sun set below the horizon. Nature painted this series of colorful photos which I and many others shot that day. Enjoy!

Photos by Mel taken with Canon Powershot S5 iS camera. Kaka'ako Waterfront Park, Honolulu, Hawaii. Nov. 15, 2012.

These any many other photos are on my Flickr photostream.

Photos of the Week - January 30, 2012.

It was a great weekend for sunset photos. Here are some from Ala Moana Beach Park.



The sunset crowd (above and below).



Honolulu's beautiful Ala Moana Sunset.



After sunset, dusk.



Hope you enjoyed these. Have a nice week. More photos to be posted by this weekend. Aloha!

More photos at my Flickr photostream.

Pictures of the Week - Ala Moana Beach Park Afternoon

Friday, November 11 was the perfect day for an afternoon at Ala Moana Beach Park. Hardly anyone was there because no one except the Honolulu Police Department and other security agencies could bring a motor vehicle into the park because of the APEC conference. As a result, the park was hardly occupied with people. There wasn't much noise, there were no tents, no inflatable jumping machines, no loud music and no crowds. A very rare, Hawaiian Day at the beach, thanks to APEC security.

As usual the afternoon photo opportunities were great, yielding several nice sunset shots and a rare opportunity in spotting a resting Hawaiian Monk Seal at the end of the Magic Island beach area.







This Hawaiian Monk Seal was napping near the wall at Magic Island.

More Photos on Flickr: 11-11-11 Set

Sunset at Honolulu Harbor

There were some great sunset shots at Honolulu Harbor today. Two cruise ships made port calls into the harbor. The Princess Cruise ship Golden Princess spent most of the day tied up at Pier 10 near Nimitz highway. The picture featured above is shot from across Nimitz near the end of the sunset sky which presented these brilliant, waning colors. The other ship, MS Westerdam belonging to Holland America Line was tied up at Pier 2.



A couple shares a moment of the setting sun at Pier 9, Honolulu Harbor. The sun sets behind Sand
Island during the fall season.



A keiki hula troupe practices at Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu Harbor.

A Beautiful Hawaiian Sunset

Taken from Kaka'ako Waterfront Park with a Canon S5 iS camera. Below is the cropped version of the same photo.




Point Panic Panorama taken with iPod Touch camera.


Sunbeam through the clouds. Taken with Canon S5 is.

Last Sunset of 2007

Keeping with tradition I started a few years ago, I once again shot the last sunset of the old year. This series of shots were taken today at Ala Moana Beach Park and Magic Island. The colorful sunset made an otherwise cloudy and sometimes rainy last day of 2007 worth the time and certainly the beauty.

More shots of the last sunset of 2007 are at my Flickr.com website.



Once again, here's wishing you a Happy New Year.