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Critiques and comments welcome.

My wife and I after being married for almost two years finally found the time and funds to go to Kauai on our honeymoon. We stayed on this fantastic island for almost 8 days and enjoyed every minute of it. There's something for everyone. Road trips? Check. Laze around on the beach? Check. Surf? Hike? Walk? Check, check and check.

This is a great place to recharge oneself and refresh your perspective on life. It helped me teach myself to slow down a touch and enjoy the simpler things in life.

While doing all this, in the back of our head, we knew we'd have to get back to the reality of the rat race and we did our best to capture the magic and grandeur of the various scenes we were lucky to witness. Here's a small sampling from each day that will hopefully give you the feeling that you were there with us witnessing the majesty of this island.

All pictures clickable for full size.


Kilauea Lighthouse


Chopper Ride-7: Eye in the Sky looking at the Napali Coast

Chopper Ride-8: Closer look at those magnificent ridges


Ke'e Beach Sunset V2

Got a full album up on flickr if anyone is so inclined: https://flic.kr/s/aHskeuJJfF



Jun 25, 2015 at 02:00 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Unforgettable Kauai


Great work, I love two and three. Reminds me of my honeymoon almost 9 years ago. Except it was cloudy for our helicopter trip, so didn't get the views you got. Very nice!


Jun 25, 2015 at 02:05 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Unforgettable Kauai


Beautiful... what lens did you use for the helicopter shots?


Jun 25, 2015 at 02:41 PM
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ScooberJake wrote:
Great work, I love two and three. Reminds me of my honeymoon almost 9 years ago. Except it was cloudy for our helicopter trip, so didn't get the views you got. Very nice!


Thank you! We definitely got lucky with the weather - this was later in the day if I remember correctly and we had consistently gotten rain the past few days around that time.
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diabolus wrote:
Beautiful... what lens did you use for the helicopter shots?


Thanks. It was an Olympus 12-40 f2.8 pro lens.



Jun 25, 2015 at 03:19 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Unforgettable Kauai


Hey Maritan!

Looks like you had some time there, 3 and 2 are truly amazing, i can only imagine this place "the wet dream of any landscape photographer"

:-)
Andrey



Jun 25, 2015 at 04:45 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Unforgettable Kauai


2 and 3 are my picks as well

Morris



Jun 25, 2015 at 06:55 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Unforgettable Kauai


A very nice set, particularly the Napili Coast view from the helicopter.
Do you remember what time in the day that was? I did the helo trip but in the morning.

Thanks for posting
Dan



Jun 25, 2015 at 07:30 PM
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lionking wrote:
Hey Maritan!

Looks like you had some time there, 3 and 2 are truly amazing, i can only imagine this place "the wet dream of any landscape photographer"

:-)
Andrey


Thanks for the comment, Andrey. Kauai is truly a fantastic place and it is almost difficult to get a bad photograph.
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morris wrote:
2 and 3 are my picks as well

Morris


Thanks for the picks Morris.
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dswiger wrote:
A very nice set, particularly the Napili Coast view from the helicopter.
Do you remember what time in the day that was? I did the helo trip but in the morning.

Thanks for posting
Dan


Thanks. I dug through my emails to check what time I went on that ride and it was mid-day - between 2 and 3 pm.



Jun 26, 2015 at 09:14 AM
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Very nice series!

2 and 3 are very nice. I really like #3's POV. I think it is great. The only thing I'd suggest is a tiny crop off the top to lose the bit of lighter water. It is small but yet keeps pulling my eyes there as it is brighter than most of the scene. The little crop solve that issue for me. You had spectacular light for that image.



Jun 26, 2015 at 12:27 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Unforgettable Kauai


Nice work! #2 and 3 are beautiful.


Jun 26, 2015 at 12:48 PM
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Scott Kroeker wrote:
Very nice series!

2 and 3 are very nice. I really like #3's POV. I think it is great. The only thing I'd suggest is a tiny crop off the top to lose the bit of lighter water. It is small but yet keeps pulling my eyes there as it is brighter than most of the scene. The little crop solve that issue for me. You had spectacular light for that image.


Good catch. Thank you for pointing it out. I'll make the change.
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Sunny Sra wrote:
Nice work! #2 and 3 are beautiful.


Thank you!



Jun 26, 2015 at 03:19 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Unforgettable Kauai


Beautiful images! My fav is the coastline, it is quite impressive from the air.


Jun 27, 2015 at 01:40 AM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Unforgettable Kauai


2nd and 3rd are truly stunning!


Jun 27, 2015 at 03:19 PM
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Maritan wrote:
Thanks. I dug through my emails to check what time I went on that ride and it was mid-day - between 2 and 3 pm.


That makes sense, your EXIF data was 3 hours later. Must be from the West Coast.

Dan



Jun 27, 2015 at 04:10 PM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Unforgettable Kauai


bridger1215 wrote:
Beautiful images! My fav is the coastline, it is quite impressive from the air.


It most definitely is very impressive. We also took a boat ride the day before and we were a lot closer to the coastline, and let me tell you, that place looks stunning from any angle.
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snooked123 wrote:
2nd and 3rd are truly stunning!


Thank you.
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dswiger wrote:
That makes sense, your EXIF data was 3 hours later. Must be from the West Coast.

Dan


Dan - I'm from AZ, which thankfully never changes time. And I never bother changing time on my camera...



Jun 27, 2015 at 07:27 PM





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