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It snowed like crazy in my neighborhood and since I was off I took a walk to Glendoveer Gold Course, stopped by Von Ebert Brewing, and walked around. I decided to do color and black and white and a bunch of photos.
Read MoreI moved to Portland in 2016 with essentially zero experience with photography and no idea what Portland had to offer. My brother Josh had been doing videography and photography for a long time and he wanted to start a business. He invited me to move in with him to become partners in the business and I quit my job and moved to Portland where we started Fractal Focus LLC. In order to familiarize myself with photography, I borrowed my brother’s Canon 5d Mark III with a 70-200 lens and took a walk around the Glendoveer Walking Path.
Read MoreMy uncle Simon was born in 1937 and has lived in New York his entire life. He is my mother’s uncle, which makes him my second uncle, but he is more of a grandpa figure to me. I have really only known him as an elderly man and his age is catching up to him. He retired from teaching early and was an avid patron of the arts in New York. After retiring he traveled the world with his friend Marvin and was a frequenter of on and off Broadway shows. He walked every day and went to the gym and saw movies and took the subway into Manhattan to places like The Julliard School, museums, and Jewish centers, and for the past 50 years would go back to the same apartment in the heart of Brooklyn.
Read MoreWith our Covid vaccination cards, Travel.Hawaii.Gov QR codes, and a detailed itinerary provided by Audley Travel my mom and I flew out of PDX around 11 am to Kauai, with a brief layover in Seattle. We had been planning this trip for 18 months and we had originally planned a trip to Nepal. But, with travel to the area opening and closing from week to week and the added stress of traveling to such a remote place we decided to make it easier and changed our destination to Hawaii. I had never been, and she had only been once before.
I had always thought of Hawaii as an over-rated place for rich tourists who didn’t want any adventure and that it was too expensive and not worth the hype. I am very glad I did not continue to have this bias as we planned our trip and made our way to the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii was very expensive and I am lucky to have someone that was willing to bring me along on a trip that would have had to go into debt to afford. It was a beautiful place and there were plenty of adventures to be had. It was an amazing place to photograph and document visually with video.
Thank you to my mom, Karen, for inviting me and allowing me to experience such a beautiful place with you.
The following is an account of our trip via photos, video, and written exposition.
Read MoreShot with Canon 80D
100mm Macro Lens
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Shot with Canon 80D
100mm Macro Lens
Follow me on Instagram @g_grins and @fractalfocus.nature
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