Tag Archives: Big Island
Time spent together Importance underrated Family summers Ah, yeah… I’m not the best at writing Haikus. Maybe I should stick with being a family photographer instead! The lengths parents will go to so their kids smile for the camera… 😀 Okay, one more — can’t resist. A perfect sunset First rainbows are lit ablaze Then cooled with night’s gaze –…
Here’s an awesome afternoon I spent with two families, the Browns and the Blews — friends back home, vacationing on the Big Island together. Mr and Mrs Brown had a beautiful wedding vow renewal mid-session; so beautiful that it made it obvious to me that I would love to shoot more vow renewals, and thankfully…
Being a family photographer always seems to offer me lessons in life; wisdom hidden in everything around me. This session with the Ito family, hailing from Alberta, Canada, had such a lesson. I arrived at the Fairmont Orchid greeted by grey clouds and relatively dark skies. There would be no real sunset that day, just…
My girlfriend and I have this thing, where we come up with the name — well, the theme — of the year ahead. A single word that encapsulates everything that we want our lives to be about in that year. Last year, the word was WILDFIRE. We had first met in January, not much more…
This session was just a smattering of good times… probably from the fact that the Mayer Ohana is one of those families who unintentionally “own the room”, because their affection for one another is so loud and obvious and not at all dull. They are what I think families should be. They are loving, honest,…