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It was a brief but spectacular light show on Little Beach in South Maui as I looked out towards Molokini and Kaho`olawe islands.
I enjoy photography in Hawaii because the constant trade winds almost guarantee clouds on one side of the island or the other. (Unlike California where I'm still waiting for the first rain since late February.)
So about an hour or two before sunset, I study the clouds and head out where they are the best. This beach is just over a spit of lava from Big Beach and offers nice views of the other side of maui and the island of Lanai too. The islet of Molokini to the right is shaped like a crescent moon with excellent diving and snorkeling on the inside.
1/4-second exposure @F16 with ND grads 0.9 + 0.75 angled from 9:30am-3:30pm
Parts of the sand and sky had to be desaturated a bit to retain detail.
| Camera: | Canon EOS 5D |
| Lens: | Canon 17-40L @ 18 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Makena Last Light |
| Username: | 
PatrickSmith |
| Uploaded: | 29 Sep 2008 - 3:19 PM |
| Tags: | Back, Did, General, Get, Hawaii, Landscape / travel, Maui, Molokini, On, Plane?, That, Why |
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Congrats Patrick this captures a wonderful scene, excellent
Anne
This is lovely. The underlit clouds and line of clouds extending into the distance. Great stuff.
Graham
This is beautiful Patrick.. the sky is amazing and the cast of reflection you captured is stunning as well...
Thanks for having a look! I actually have some time to see what I'm missing, so ....
Patrick
I do like the colour you get out of your images. Very natural and often warm.
Nick
Lovely exposure and use of available light Patrick.Excellent.
Tom.
Thanks for having a look!
Yes Chant, The older more eroded part of Maui does look a bit like Kauai, especially the sand.
Thanks Martin. Me too!
Patrick
Thanks for looking!
That's 7,000 miles Jouko + 3,000 more to hawaii. You must have very good eyes!
It's a great place Les.
Patrick
Excellent coastal view Patrick but have you noticed some odd purple splodges in the rhs sea, could be drops on filter or sun spots??. Sorry to be picky but once I noticed them I couldn't see them being part of the water.
John
Hi John,
The deep water is really a purplish-blue when the light hits it just right, so there is some of that, but I'll had to look again at the original raw file to see for sure.
Patrick
gorgeous quality as always, i love the texture of the sand in the foreground.
The underlight on those clouds look very nice indeed. The golden tone of the whole shot is just superb. The comp is really easy on the eye and the detail is, as always, superb.
Excellent Patrick!
Paul
A stunning beachscape Patrick, you've produced the goods yet again. The light and overall mood are wonderful
Done it again, Patrick!
Hallmark technical excellence, and characteristically incredible location, light and vision.
Inspiring stuff!
Cheers,
Bill
ps: when's the book coming out?? 
Thanks for the link Patrick.
It's now on my "things to get" list!
Cheers,
Bill
Thanks for having a look! I know I still have not been around much but I'll have a look at the galleries today or tomorrow.
Patrick
WOW! Breathtakingly beautiful. Stunning work as always Patrick.
Tracy
Hi Patrick,
I love the golden grains of sand reflected under the wash of the waves as it slithers in over the rocks and around them giving a sheen to it like glass,amazingly beautiful and yet the terse water and the power show against the rocks and the two could not be more different yet beautiful in their own ways.Great tones,saturation and exposure,the sky and horizon are fantastic and the detail is the tops.Magical work as always.take care,Ann
Thanks for having a look! I'll be IN LA for a few days but I'll upload another one later next week and then have a look around.
And thanks Ann, I did not even notice much of what yu mention until I was processing the shot. It was all happening too fast.
Patrick
I just looked at this large and noticed some purple blotches in the ocean to the right hand side, what are these? all i can think is they might be water droplets on the filters but then they would be sharper at that aperture?
Terry.
Thanks for stopping by!
Terry, I did notice that some of the waves looked rather dark and rather purple-ish for a moment depending on how the light was hitting them, so I picked some of that up.
No Diving Megzie, I admired it from afar!
Patrick
Thanks for having a look!
Thanks Ted, though I think anybody could do this is they were crazy enough to risk life and limb!
Patrick
Brilliant is the only word I think is fitting.
Johanna
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