Posts under ‘Photography’

Late again? Crap. Anyway. Finally dipping into the Hawai’i pics.
We went down into the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park one day, and I caught this fun piece.
Back in the ’70s (if memory serves), a lava flow came down the mountain and flowed over the road. This sign has been there since.

The family and I went to the Peoria Balloon Festival on Saturday, and despite the heat, we had a great time.
We first visited the balloon festival a few years ago, and it was a great photo opportunity. I hoped to get some similar shots this time around.
The festival was held at a different park this [...]

Friday night, I was officially awarded the rank of Ikkyu, or first-degree brown belt, in Shuri-ryu karate at the Academy of Okinawan Karate.
The black stripe down the center of the belt signifies the next step is Shodan, or black belt. This means I’m done testing for rank for a while, and it’s up to me [...]

I’m a week late with this one. I intended to post it last week, and I was going to save tonight’s shots from my karate school’s graduation as part of this week’s entry, and tomorrow we’re hitting a hot air balloon festival, but my schedule’s been completely thrown off by work (including a day trip [...]

I had a unique photo opportunity last weekend.
The Wife’s cousin got married, and at the reception he and his mom came to me and asked if I could take pictures of the cake cutting, the first dance, and so forth. Turns out the (alleged) pro photographer skipped out on them, saying she didn’t expect the [...]

A friend of mine is good with wood crafts, and he asked me if I’d like to visit his shop and take some pictures for Photo Friday. He needed pictures for his website, and in exchange he’d let me keep the wooden rose he made for the shoot.
In addition to the basic portrait-style shots of [...]

I tan more than I burn, and every year I end up with a pale line under my wedding ring. This summer, thanks to the Hawai’i trip, I got the line a bit earlier than normal.

If you look closely, you’ll see the line. Every year, the Wife and I joke that this means I can’t [...]

I may have been out of town last week, but I took a bajillion pictures. Tonight I selected one to be part of my Photo Friday collection, a simple shot of the group of karateka after a morning workout on the beach.

A total of 13 of us went to Hawai’i together, and as it was [...]

This was taken with a cell phone, but I couldn’t resist posting it as this week’s Photo Friday entry. A good photo is a good photo; the camera doesn’t matter.

Meet Chris. He trains at the same dojo I do, and he’s probably the most enthusiastic student on the mat. He loves karate, he loves Elvis, [...]

I delayed Photo Friday this week so I could take some pictures at the anniversary banquet for Shihan Joseph Walker on Saturday night. The banquet celebrated his 50th year practicing the martial arts, and several of his students from the Academy of Okinawan Karate, including many of the 40 black belts he promoted during the [...]