I’m really happy with these. Hope you all are too. @christianvh thanks for getting sandy.
I could really have another swim on that beach again. Sigh.
The overgrown plant life in Kauai is incredible. @vassanta walked ahead of me after shooting in the creek and said “look at all this we need to shoot this.” So we did. The leaves were so huge I wanted to use them for more than just a backdrop so I asked her to cover her face with one of the leaves. Then the mosquitos arrived… And we ran.
@Vassanta and I dodged the tourists and caught some little waterfalls…
For some reason each time @Vassanta and I work together we find something a little magical; from the perfect beach, to a river filled with gold flakes floating in it, to a piano randomly parked in the woods, this time we found Jacob’s Cabin from the famed TV Series LOST. LOST was filmed on the island of Kauai mostly on the North Shore and the Napali Coast, so I totally know Jacob paid us a little visit. We didn’t have much time here due to mosquitos but here are some images I just worked on this evening…
When I tried to find the cabin again it was gone. True Story. LOL (only LOST geeks will get that) Vassanta even found some fruit. Typical Kate move.
Who would have ever thought that we would find a Weirwood Tree with a Throne underneath it in the tropics? Thank you for spotting the tree @carlotta – I’m glad I found the throne. Maybe she is Lyanna Stark for a brief moment.
Here are some more images @tara and I made walking around finding magic here and there…
Her posing with the tree was just incredible and I can’t choose “the one.”
Sometimes you get surprises. Jessamyne and I were up early, shooting along one of the shorelines on the north end of Kauai. I had picked the location because of the beautiful exposed tree roots due to sand erosion over the years. Quite striking. And we did two setups along the shore there. Both beautiful.
We paused for a moment and were in the middle of deciding what to do next. Head to another location or try something else with those trees. The morning sun was coming in low, almost behind us now from around a bend in the beach. It wasn’t direct light, but it was casting some interesting beams on the sand near a large piece of lava rock on the shoreline.
Jessa and I thought it might be interesting to try something there. I told her to get near one of the beams that was now quickly moving away from us. My original idea was to put her in one of them, but we were a few minutes too late for that. But still. There was something good about this light. Very soft.
And as soon as Jessa got down on the rock and I got down to sand level with my camera, I could see her lovely skin reflecting a very compelling glow. Admittedly, while photographing her, I didn’t know if these photographs would end up being great images, or just good images. Jessa was posing brilliantly, but I wasn’t sure if the light was enough to make her stand out from the background or not.
However, later when she and I reviewed all of the setups from this day of shooting, we both gravitated to this one. And we were both surprised because this had definitely been one of those, well we have great stuff here already, let’s just try this one more thing since we’re here, kinds of setups. It was an extra. A bonus.
Yet, sometimes you get surprises.
Working on my second shoot of the fest that I had with @tara who I first worked with in 2006. I love to work with models more than one time. Once you figure out how each other works on the first shoot it’s over, the good stuff comes on shoot 2 and 3 and on and on. Here are a couple I just finished working on… more to come. We had a good shoot. For the first few days of the festival this location provided much tranquility and privacy and people who didn’t mind. If it had only lasted… but that is another story…
It was the perfect place to swim in calm water. A part of me is still there I think.
While we were in the water shooting the Frigate Birds kept diving and flying by giving us a great show. I wonder if they wondered about us. 😉
This was really a tree built for two.
model: @jessamyne