Great Photo Ops / Street Musicians Hawaiian Style

A   L   O   H   A  !

Lots to see by clicking on this photo:

" When you play, 

never mind 

who listens to you."

 Robert Schumann

When I spotted 

the tourist boys above

with their first ukuleles, 

outside the music shop

in Waikiki,

I knew it was a

Wonderful Photo

waiting to be ruined.

How I Operate

in such a situation

DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUBJECT

Walk on Past

I faced away from them,

just one of many camera toting

people in a resort.

I decided on my settings,

a bit of zoom,

swept the area,

camera to my eye,

pausing, and snapping

JUST in time

to catch the above.

They never knew

what hit them!

I rush to add:

we are all photographed

numerous times a day

in public places.

That is modern life,

permissible

under law.

Morally,

personally,

my rules are:

1) to make no one

uncomfortable,

2) to present no one

in a way

that would embarrass

should we become

friends

(this happened to me

on FB

when I photoed/posted 

a beach shot 

of a cute girl!

A mutual friend saw it!

Don't worry,

she loved it

and friended me.

So don't play 

with these rules.)

Those boys 

are in a great 

Hawaii Tradition.

Perhaps some day

they will be like

these senior citizens

playing and singing

at Ala Moana 

Shopping Center:

(Link)

The Hawaiian Flag 

on the back of the T Shirt,

the red/white Palaka pattern

 on the guitar man,

and the Longs bag

are all iconic!

Note the lap-played

steel guitar.

Palaka stands for

"workers"

like "Blue Collar"

does on the Mainland.

Actually,

both cloths and

concepts

seem to be fading

along with unions

and average

workers

throughout America.

More about Palaka HERE

One day, Siddhartha heard an experienced musician teaching young musicians:

" If you tighten the string too much it will snap and if you leave it too slack, it won't play." Suddenly, Siddhartha realized that these simple words held the great truth, and that in all these years he had been following the wrong path. We call him Buddha.

LAMA NORBU  This post dedicated to ALL Creative People! Especially to a dear friend who brought the grandchildren to musicianship where they are  flourishing in fun and confidence. My friend is a sly dog, knowing that each note  they play  throughout life will not only  bless them and others, but bring up sense memories, heart memories, of the one who started it all for them. Thanks for being my friend; which is  another word for "Blessing"                                                    cloudia