﻿ 2009 September | mattwadeart.com  Mud and Blood in Hawaii
posted by on 2009.09.20, under Landscape Photography,
Photography Equipment Nikon D300, Tokina 11-16mm, Singh-Ray
Vari-N-Duo, Singh-Ray 3-stop Reverse GND, f/16, 30 sec., ISO 200
Imagine for a moment if you were to go on a photographic
expedition to Hawaii. The scene that probably unfolds in your
head is a very pleasant one… you casually setting up your tripod
on the beach with a warm tropical breeze at your back. It’s hard
to imagine worrying about anything more than maybe getting a
sunburn or missing first light because you had too many Mai Tais
the night before.  You can probably guess by the title of this
post that my brother and I had a somewhat different experience
when we recently spent 5 days on Kauai and 3 days on the Big
Island taking photos. In reality, it was a humbling experience
because we had greatly underestimated the extreme nature of the
Hawaiian landscape. Like any place, it has it’s dangers and
those dangers often become worse