April 22, 2003

• Last Friday, I picked up my new camera (& most of the accessories & software I requested through the VA Vocational Rehabilitation Commission's Independent Living Program). Over the weekend, I took a few pictures (about 140 of them!). Of course, since I'm just learning how this camera operates, not all of them turned out very well. I haven't deleted them yet... I'm going to play with them in Paint Shop Pro (the Anniversary version 7 that was one of the software programs I also just got) to see if they can be fixed at all. What also didn't help was that on my trip to Kalapana, the day was very overcast most of the time. So, some of what I've posted below has been adjusted for that. Once I learn how to use the camera's built in software filters, perhaps that won't be a problem for me anymore. I definitely need the polarizing filter attachment, as I found out when trying to take pictures of hermit crabs & gobi fish in a tide pool, since those really turned out weird.

  
  

  So... enjoy!

  
  

  

  
  

  I really like this one! Lots of power in this wave.

  
  

  

  
  

  A beautiful pink hibiscus found along the roadside between Kalapana & Pohoiki (unretouched).

  
  

  

  
  

  Red Ohia Lehua blossom.

  
  

  

  
  

  Pretty pink bouganvillia beside a sego palm... semi-wild, along the roadside.

  
  

  

  
  

  Nearly ripe noni fruit (morinda citrifolia). This is one of the things I ingested (aged juice) as part of my personal cancer treatment. It has to be the stinkiest fruit I have ever smelled! It's taste isn't all that great either, but was not as bad as I expected (not as bad as the smell!). The University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, began researching its effectiveness as a cancer remedy in 2001. It supposedly also works to regulate blood pressure (lowering it, which probably caused my weakness while taking it, since my blood pressure is normally low anyway).

  
  

  

  
  

  Kahena Beach... where one is welcome to bathe in the nude & swim with dolphins, as some I know do frequently. The beach is about 30 feet below where I was standing to take the shot, just off the roadway. Obviously, I purposely avoided getting any people in this shot, even though there were some at the beach this day, in bathing suits & not. If you want to see the nudists, you'll have to come to the Big Island & visit Kahena Beach for yourself!

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