A L O H A !
The job of feet is walking,
but their hobby is dancing.
Amit Kalantri
Shot with sun behind me.
You don’t take a photograph.
You ask quietly to borrow it.
Unknown Photographer
Shooting into the sun
If I shoot at the sun,
I may hit a star.
Taking an image,
freezing a moment,
reveals how rich
reality truly is.
In photography there is
a reality so subtle that it
becomes more real
than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz
[Hmmm, seems we might
have flipped those
last two captions.
What do YOU think?]
Photography is the story
I fail to put into words.
Destin Sparks
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These shots were taken
doing my favorite thing:
Walking in Honolulu;
In this case, my own neighborhood
"shallow" Waikiki
as we called it back in my
taxi driving days.
Dispatcher: "787 Where you stay?"
Me: "Waikiki Shallow, Hobron Lane"
Down by Diamond Head,
set in Kapiolani Park
is Waikiki Deep.
Also wrote a column called
"Walking in Waikiki" for a while.
So here I am going for PO Box mail
at the tiny, outdoor Post Office.
While in the Bay Area for a few
years, I felt like an uprooted plant
kept artificially alive.
Nutrients, but no
deep nutrition.
Here on
Oahu, my roots run deep.
Life is rich with memories
on every street corner. *
Thanks for visiting!
We will be here.
Remember,
We Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia
* Waikiki is approximately 2 miles long, and mere blocks wide, running from the Ala Wai Canal to the beach. Streams from the mountains bring fresh water to burble up in special places at the surf, where the brackish water has been considered healing for as long as Hawaiians have lived here. Once a marshy, almost magical stretch, Waikiki has long been the resort of Hawaiian royalty who had homes here. They left their names, and the names of their iconic homes, on the street signs of Waikiki. Later, Japanese plantation contract workers once free of their obligation, made rice paddies here, raising ducks and families among Hawaiian families. Duke Kahanamoku, who won Olympic gold medals in swimming and is legendary for his ocean rescues, lived and died here teaching the world to surf. He grew up in the Hawaiian village of Kalia, where the Hilton Hawaiian Village sits now by Kahanamoku Lagoon at the beach. Link
