Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?
Who's gonna take the place of me?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna tame the heart of thee?
-U2 “Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses”
I hope this photograph from the North Shore of Kauai warms up your cold winter day.
Since this post features a song from one of the world’s most famous band here is your U2 trivia question of the day:
Can you name U2’s first studio album?
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Showing posts with label Beauty In Nature. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Kauai is magic: you can transform it into Asia, Africa or South America- and never leave the USA
Kauai is magic: you can transform it into Asia, Africa or South America - and never leave the USA, a photo by Sam Antonio Photography on Flickr.
If you haven’t been to the Garden Isle of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands you undoubtedly have seen the island in countless commercials, television shows and full-length featured movies.
Here are a couple of movies where Kauai served as a natural sound stage for Hollywood:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Just Go With It (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
Soul Surfer (2011)
Avatar (2010)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
6 Days / 7 Nights (1998)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Hook (1991)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1983)
King Kong (1976)
The Hawaiians (1970)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
South Pacific (1958)
So what was filmed here at Moloa’a Beach? Of course the great 1960s American sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Now let’s all sing that memorable theme song:
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Happy Travels!
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
You can take a crappy shot of Paradise - Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Hawaii
In Kauai, Hawaii you have sunshine and rain and then more rain. That’s fine with me as long as there isn’t any snow in the forecast. Remember there are no snowblowers in paradise.
Last month I was on the beautiful island of Kauai, Hawaii (The Garden Isle). This photo I took of Hanalei Bay, in the North Shore of Kauai, is straight out of the camera (and Santa Claus is a real guy). It was raining and overcast when I took this shot so I had to do some tweaks in Apple Aperture. The photo was in bad shape.
Maybe I can blame it on my camera lens. Look closely and you can see that most of the scene isn’t very sharp. I attribute that to my beaten up Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS lens. I think it is in need of calibration, but I am too lazy to bring it in to the local Canon repair center.
I am trying to remember when my lens when out of whack. Was it when I took it along on an ill-advised horseback riding trip in Costa Rica where I was nearly thrown off my horse? Maybe when I was photographing on top of an elephant in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Riding an elephant is fine for the first ten minutes, but then all the swaying back and forth gets old and besides, it isn’t the safest thing for an expensive camera lens. Perhaps it was when I was in the back of a motorbike in Vietnam. I kept hearing this clanking noise and I thought it was the motorbike about to fall apart. Only did I realize since I was carry my camera with a Black Rapid camera sling, that the lens was banging against the motorbike. Not a good thing.
Or perhaps I suck as a photographer.
I seldom make Flickr Explore (has anybody figured out how that works) and I rarely win any photograph competitions (maybe it would help if I submitted some photos).
Okay, is there a Un-Suck filter in Apple Aperture?
Happy Travels!
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Last month I was on the beautiful island of Kauai, Hawaii (The Garden Isle). This photo I took of Hanalei Bay, in the North Shore of Kauai, is straight out of the camera (and Santa Claus is a real guy). It was raining and overcast when I took this shot so I had to do some tweaks in Apple Aperture. The photo was in bad shape.
Maybe I can blame it on my camera lens. Look closely and you can see that most of the scene isn’t very sharp. I attribute that to my beaten up Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS lens. I think it is in need of calibration, but I am too lazy to bring it in to the local Canon repair center.
I am trying to remember when my lens when out of whack. Was it when I took it along on an ill-advised horseback riding trip in Costa Rica where I was nearly thrown off my horse? Maybe when I was photographing on top of an elephant in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Riding an elephant is fine for the first ten minutes, but then all the swaying back and forth gets old and besides, it isn’t the safest thing for an expensive camera lens. Perhaps it was when I was in the back of a motorbike in Vietnam. I kept hearing this clanking noise and I thought it was the motorbike about to fall apart. Only did I realize since I was carry my camera with a Black Rapid camera sling, that the lens was banging against the motorbike. Not a good thing.
Or perhaps I suck as a photographer.
I seldom make Flickr Explore (has anybody figured out how that works) and I rarely win any photograph competitions (maybe it would help if I submitted some photos).
Okay, is there a Un-Suck filter in Apple Aperture?
Happy Travels!
Text and photo copyright by ©Sam Antonio Photography
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Friday, August 16, 2013
You stay classy, San Diego!
"Mmm. San Diego. Drink it in, it always goes down smooth." - Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Sunny days and mild, year-round weather make San Diego’s beaches a world class destination. Winter in San Diego is the best time to photograph landscapes and seascapes due to clear skies (no haze or fog).
Imperial Beach is a residential beach city in San Diego County, California. It has the distinction of being the most southwesterly city in the continental United States. If you were standing on the Imperial Beach Pier you would get a clear view of Mexico, which is only a stone’s throw away (that is if you have an arm like quarterback Cam Newton).
I took this photograph of the pier right before sunset. As luck would have it a young couple ran across the beach and into my frame. That’s San Diego for you...having fun in the sun!
I hope you are enjoying my San Diego series and as Ron Burgundy would say in his signature sign off for each broadcast, "You stay classy, San Diego!"
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Sunny days and mild, year-round weather make San Diego’s beaches a world class destination. Winter in San Diego is the best time to photograph landscapes and seascapes due to clear skies (no haze or fog).
Imperial Beach is a residential beach city in San Diego County, California. It has the distinction of being the most southwesterly city in the continental United States. If you were standing on the Imperial Beach Pier you would get a clear view of Mexico, which is only a stone’s throw away (that is if you have an arm like quarterback Cam Newton).
I took this photograph of the pier right before sunset. As luck would have it a young couple ran across the beach and into my frame. That’s San Diego for you...having fun in the sun!
I hope you are enjoying my San Diego series and as Ron Burgundy would say in his signature sign off for each broadcast, "You stay classy, San Diego!"
Text and photo copyright by ©Sam Antonio Photography
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