Hello Friends and Family,
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Maui, Odds & Ends |
The tropical Maui sun gives the photographer so many wonderful opportunities to capture the magic of this place that I sometimes forget to take my camera outside at night. I often go out after dark to sit on the pool deck looking out over Napili Bay but usually without camera. One of those nights, my little buddy, Johnny, went with me and we spotted three moving blue lights under the water just past the breakers. We sat in wonder trying to figure out what they were. My best guess was night divers — even though I had never heard of such a sport, I figured some folks might do it. When I got back to the condo I jumped on the Internet and learned that my guess was probably correct. After I originally published this issue, a friend sent me the following additional information about night diving. "Night dives with SCUBA can be quite awesome. You can dive exactly the same site at night and not recognize it. I had the chance to do that many years ago on Riotain in the Caribbean. The colors change versus daytime and the animals you see are almost entirely different. When were surfacing after the dive we surfaced through a school? of box jellyfish that seemed to glow in the lights of the dive boat. They were cubes about a cubic inch in side with their tentacles dangling below. I wouldn't expect such a dramatic change off Maui because the area of the Caribbean we dove was warmer and populated by 53 coral species. A night dive is part of getting as advanced certification along with a deep dive to 130 feet." |
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Have you ever noticed the wind turbines on the Pali between Ma'alaea and Lahaina. You may have also seen them when coming in to land at Kahului Airport. Unfortunately, there is not a good spot for the photographer to stand and get a good shot of them. And if you go to Kihei or Wailea (as I did) you run into a problem with haze obscuring what you want to photograph. Photoshop (in ACR or Lightroom) now has a handy filter which can reduce the haze but unfortunately not eliminate it. I continued to work on the image to adjust the color to get a better rendition — not too bad I thought. |
To be continued...
Life is good.
Aloha,
B. David
P. S., All photos and text © B. David Cathell Photography, Inc. — www.bdavidcathell.com