Oh the shame.

I know it would seem unfaithful for me to ignore my own blog in order to post photo tips on a much bigger blog…. but I have been doing that for the past couple months. Cheating on myself! The other blog is called the Digital Photography Experience, or DP Experience, for short

I was invited by internationally known photographers/instructors Rick Sammon, and Juan Pons to become a part of their growing blog community — with about 15,000 daily readers. I was whooed and honored at the prospect of being “one of them“…. know what I mean?

Well, now I am one of them, and I find that I am learning a lot just by being forced to sit down and write a 300 word photography tip once each week. It is fun, and it make me actually think about how to put my motorized picture-taking process into a logical set of words.

Now my goal is to post the same tips on both sites… sort of double-dipping with the Doritos, if you will.

This blog has been made up of many fun, personal, non-photography experiences. I love to write like this, when I find the time. I will still attempt to keep posting my more personal posts here. If I am slacking, I know Rachael will kick me in the butt and nudge me to post a blog; you know how she is! You will also start seeing a few of my tips here.

Oh! by the way, we all survived the massive 3-foot tsunami following the Chilean earthquake. It was a really great practice drill for the island, and we all shared the aloha that day as we sat for hours on the mountain. It was a huge, fun backyard party and BBQ once we saw how harmless the 4 waves were. We will be extra-ready for the next time!

Aloha, a hui hou…
~r

So….. after a gagillion hours fighting with my computer and also with the internet, my new website is up. It was also up a week ago, but then down, and then up again, then down, up, down…. The dang site was re-directing into an infinite loop. I’m sure a few of you have been there; done that.

I had planned for the new site to be up in August, and here it is December; six months late. Still, I feel like it is only halfway done. Geeeze, I have learned a ton along the way.  I bought a stack of “Dummies” books along the way, Dummies Dreamweaver, Dummies HTML, Dummies Blogging, Dummies Website Design — boy do I feel like a dummy at this point.

So I hope to add a bit more style to the site, and finish a few loose ends. My goal is to make this site easy for you to see what’s new, from my camera. I have soooo many new images that I have not even seen in detail. I also am looking to expant beyond my established list of clients. So please forward this website to friends, and family, and other lovers of Hawai’i.

Rachael’s blog came up this morning also. Still, I am in awe at the number of daily readers she has! She is the queen of the aloha spirit, isn’t she?

I have not been blogging on my old site for a couple of months, in anticipation of this easier-to-use page. I’m back, and I hope to make it interseting!

from paradise,

~r