Had a chance to stretch the legs, and a few lenses. Spent four nights in O'ahu and three on the Big Island, where the Fairmont gave us a complimentary upgrade to their $800/night gold level room. I have no idea why, and honestly, I wanted to start stringing people up by the end of the stay there. I mean who the fuck travels to Hawaii with two nannies for four kids anyway? Jeeez.

O'ahu is fabulous. We beach-hoped and hit a few landmarks. The island of Hawaii was a little unexpected, to be honest. We stayed on the Kona side with day trip to the Volcano National Park near Hilo. That tree in the bottom row, to give a sense of scale, the negative space is about six feet wide.

On the tech side of things... we stopped on the cliff for a spell, on the black lava cliff. That water has to be near a hundred feet below and the wind was blowing so hard that the water was splashing up in my face. Those gulls you see were just hanging in mid air, probably flying near 40 mph. standing still. For the life of me, I could not get the focus set just before infinity, at 200 mm, with the gail-firce wind in my face hanging over edge. If I had, that would have been one kick-ass shot. Alas, I have a near real of outakes.

Oh yeah, and that one in the middle of the third row? The lava formed that shape by encompassing a tree, evaporating it and cooling just enough to retain the shape. Neat.

I call it the clit.