Sunsets and randoms from Hawaii

**dfinn** · 02-18-2015, 12:49 PM

I was lucky enough to recently spend a couple of weeks on the big island with a short trip to Oahu thrown in. Here's a few shots from the trip.

Sunrise on Kaneohe Bay

big wave season on the north shore

baby whale being taught how to breach by mom

playing with HDR but trying to keep it subtle

**smmokan** · 02-18-2015, 02:13 PM

I'm heading to the Big Island in June.... any must-do recommendations for hiking and/or photography? We're staying outside of Kona for a week, and then a few days up in Waipio.

**dfinn** · 02-18-2015, 02:22 PM

some of the highlights of the trip for me where (not necessarily photo specific but there's always photo ops):

http://www.bigislandhikes.com/kealakekua-bay/
^ you can hike in or there's also kayak tours there. the snorkeling was excellent and there wasn't many people there

http://www.bigislandhikes.com/honomalino/
^ awesome black sand beach that we had to ourselves. cracked open fresh coconuts and snorkeled here.

scuba diving at night with Manta Rays. Not sure if you are into diving or not but this was probably the highlight of the trip, lots of places out of Kailua offer this.

not this trip but the last time I was there we took a heli ride from Hilo. We were flown south to the volcano area and go to see lava flowing into the sea. This was pretty amazing and offered lots of photo ops. Kind of spendy but really cool. There's some footage from the heli ride here:

oh, akaka falls is pretty photogenic too and a short hike
https://500px.com/photo/21079673/aka...ls-by-dan-finn