Mission Beach sunrise

Posted on 16 February, 2010 by Eric

This is a cleaned up scan of a slide I took in 2000 on Mission Beach in Australia. For a scenic image, it’s got an odd sort of back-story…

I took this shot near the end of our honeymoon — but it wasn’t a particularly romantic part of the trip. My wife has a tendency to catch various stuff when we travel, and this was my introduction to the phenomenon. By the time I took this image, she was sick as the proverbial dog — so I got a lot of opportunities for solo walks on the beach. Handy for photography, but obviously not what you really want on your honeymoon.

So I guess I have an ambivalent feeling about the shot — love the clouds, love the waves, sand’s perfect. But it always feels lonely to me.

Still waters

Posted on 1 February, 2010 by Eric

Captured as we were heading to Juneau, Alaska — via the inland passage.

The inland passage is pretty calm to begin with — I took this shot early in the morning while the water was even more still.

Waikiki evening

Posted on 24 January, 2010 by Eric

On our recent Hawaii trip, we spent the better part of an evening wandering around the beach at Waikiki. Mostly I was hoping to get a good sunset shot (the previous night, the sunset was gorgeous — but I was on a bus headed to our hotel from the airport and couldn’t get a shot of it), but I figured I should make good use of the opportunity while I was waiting. In this one, you can just make out the silhouette of one person walking deeper into the water:

BTW, I never did get my sunset shot — night after night, the clouds wound up blowing in just in time to block the view.

Beach ball

Posted on 20 January, 2010 by Eric

A farewell shot of Hawaii â€” this, from the Kekaha Kai State Park, just north of the Kona airport on Hawaiiâ€™s big island:

Thought the view would be a good fit for my crystal ball; my 7 year old should be credited with the name for the post. Originally posted on 12/30/2009 over on the old blog; on Flickr over here.