Exhibitions

Mauna Kea 12,000ft


Tak­en from a North East­ern cross view of the crater dur­ing sun­rise the col­ors are deep and rich in the rock sand and new plant growth.

Kamoal­i’i (The chiefly stones) Pu’u o Pele (Hill of Pele) and Ka Lu’u o ka ‘O’o (Plunge of the dig­ging stick) cin­der cones are vis­i­ble below.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Lens: EF17-40mm f/4L USM
Focal Length: 31.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/500 @ f‑11.0
ISO: 640

# of frames: 12

Era: Sept 2011



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Post­ed: July 7, 2021 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Hawai’i


Hawai’i is sim­ply one of my favourite places on Earth; one of the best smelling too.

The fol­low­ing is a ded­i­cat­ed col­lec­tion of my best Hawai­ian imagery (film to the lat­est dig­i­tal works). The gallery cross­es all types of ter­rains and sub­ject mat­ter; how­ev­er, it pri­mar­i­ly focus­es on the islands’ nat­ur­al beau­ty.  I have spent count­less hours pho­tograph­ing Maui and the big island of Hawai’i in near­ly every ter­rain and season.

Some day I will return to cov­er the sub­ject of surf­ing and ship my tele­scopes and CCD cam­eras to do a lit­tle astrophotography.

The Bamboo Cathedral


On the hike to Waimoku falls in Haleakala Nation­al Park you cross through a bam­boo for­est that tow­ers over you.  In places the bam­boo is so tall and dense that its extreme­ly dark on the path, how­ev­er occa­sion­al­ly rays of the Sun slip through the tall canopy and shine through.

This por­tion of the path, it height of the bam­boo reminds me of a grand cathe­dral of Europe.


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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Haleakala Crater Sunrise


This image was tak­en from a North East­ern cross view of the crater dur­ing sun­rise, the colours are deep and rich in the rock sand and new plant growth.

Kamoal­i’i (The chiefly stones) Pu’u o Pele (Hill of Pele) and Ka Lu’u o ka ‘O’o (Plunge of the dig­ging stick) cin­der cones are vis­i­ble below.

Haleakala is one of my favourite places in the world, it has many spe­cial qual­i­ties about it, and it nev­er dis­ap­points in any weath­er or any time of the day.  To tru­ly enjoy this part of Hawai’i, one must vis­it the Nation­al park from mid­night to mid­night as ever-chang­ing light­ing con­di­tions reward you with spec­tac­u­lar views.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Focal Length: 70.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/160 @ f‑10.0
ISO: 400

# of Frames: 5

Era: Sept 2011



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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CFHT”>Mauna Kea CFHT


A panora­ma of the Cana­da France Hawaii Tele­scope near the sum­mit of Mau­na Kea Hawai’i.

Tak­en dur­ing sun­set Haleakala is par­tial­ly vis­i­ble in the dis­tance on the island of Maui. The full sized print has con­sid­er­ably more detail that the web­site image displays.

A panora­ma of the Cana­da France Hawaii Tele­scope near the sum­mit of Mau­na Kea Hawai’i.

Tak­en dur­ing sun­set Haleakela is par­tial­ly vis­i­ble in the dis­tance on the island of Maui. The full sized print has con­sid­er­ably more detail that the web­site image displays.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 320

Shut­ter Speed: 1/1250 @ f‑5.6

# of Frames: 56



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Kahului Rainbow


Look­ing down on the val­ley in Maui from the 9000 ft mark on Haleakala.

A rain­bow shines over Kahu­lui, Maui.  Maui remains an amaz­ing place with many of the worlds cli­mat­ic zones avail­able on the island with­in a rel­a­tive­ly short distance.

The trade winds and the loca­tion in the Pacif­ic give it an amaz­ing­ly tem­per­ate cli­mate where it can rain and be sun­ny on you at the same time.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 400

Shut­ter Speed: 1/640 @ f‑13.0

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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Lava Swirls

Nature’s Folds


Some of the nat­ur­al rip­ples and swirls that are preva­lent in the lava flows on the south side of Vol­cano Nation­al Park.

Film scan, Fujichrome Provia 100


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Cam­era: Eos 1n
Lens: EF 80–200/2.8
Film: Fujichrome Provia 100
Expo­sure: unrecorded



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Haleakala Sunset Clouds


One of the many sur­re­al cloud for­ma­tions observed dur­ing a sun­set on top of Haleakala Vol­cano at rough­ly 10 000 feet above sea level.

Watch the time lapse video for this pho­to, tak­en while I was shoot­ing the stills and large for­mat versions.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: — EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x
Focal Length: 280.0 mm
Expo­sure: 1/2000 @ f‑11.0
ISO: 400

Era: Oct 2011



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Road Closed


The lava is relent­less from Kilauea on the big island of Hawai’i.

Tak­en from the end of the Chain of Craters road in Hawai’i Vol­ca­noes Nation­al Park.

I have a shot of this exact sign from 1991 and at that time the sign was actu­al­ly on the road, I could not find in in 2015, and I imag­ine that when I go back again in the mid 2020s if they open this part of the nation­al park, this ter­rain does not exist any­more after the most recent eruptions.

This time around its about 700 meters in on the road; very dynam­ic place.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 320



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Feb­ru­ary 25, 2023
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Mauna Kea Keck Telescopes


Over­look­ing the Keck Twin Tele­scopes the Sub­aru and the ITF tele­scopes on Mau­na Kea.

Tak­en dur­ing sun­set from atop of the sum­mit ridge of Mau­na Kea at near­ly 14 000 feet above sea lev­el. While the sun­set it self was not par­tic­u­lar­ly spec­tac­u­lar on this day the real rea­son to see Mau­na Kea is for the tele­scopes and the absolute­ly sur­re­al night sky after dark.

The sum­mit of Haleakala on Maui is vis­i­ble in the pho­to rough­ly 100km’s distant.

Image Data


Cam­era: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

Focal Length: 200.0 mm

ISO: 320

Shut­ter Speed: 1/1250 @ f‑5.6

# of Frames: 56



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Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020 by Rob
Updat­ed: Sep­tem­ber 24, 2021
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Quantums of Light

The Bamboo Cathedral and other sights on the Wamoku Falls Hike


I took these images in the tow­er­ing bam­boo for­est on the hike to Waimoku Falls in Haleakala Nation­al park.

I have cov­ered this hike near­ly every time I vis­it Maui, Hawai’i; how­ev­er, this year, I went for large for­mat and immer­sive works while in the dense bam­boo for­est.  A few images from the hike.

Orig­i­nal­ly Post­ed: Jan­u­ary 9, 2020
Updat­ed: Octo­ber 20, 2021


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