Oahu Photo Location: Barbers Point Beach Park

 Hawaii, Oahu Photo Hotspots, Photography
Jun 192014
 

Dear photographers: (non-photographers can skip this post)

In my last blog post, I told you about the Hitachi Tree, and I listed other sites around Oahu that might be good for photography. Today I want to talk about Barbers Point Beach Park.

Tube and LighthouseYou will not find this park on any lists of top scenic sights on Oahu. That’s because it’s not a particularly beautiful beach. Actually, it’s damn ugly. And the dust wafting from the adjacent junkyard stinks.

But I sense – and I could be wrong here, but my instincts tell me this – that a really skilled photographer (not me) could take some awesome photos here.

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Oahu Photo Location: Moanalua Gardens (the Hitachi Tree)

 Hawaii, Oahu Photo Hotspots, Photography
Jun 182014
 

Looking for photo opportunities on Oahu? The best spots for scenic pictures? Secret places around Honolulu to take top shots?

Hitachi TreeGreat photography starts with great subjects, and to find great subjects it helps to have a guide.

I’ve adopted a new hobby. Photography! It’s awesome and I love it and I want to marry it. Funny how new hobbies form. For years, I never understood what attracted photography buffs to the art. But now I’ve got the bug. There’s a fascinating science to it, and a wonderful combination of technology and artistry.

I have a good camera, a Sony NEX 5T. It’s awesome and I love it and I want to marry it. The wars people wage about what is the best camera are enormously silly and completely below me, of course, but I do want to make one small comment: the Sony NEX 5T is the best camera that has ever existed or that will ever exist, it’s better than your dumb fat DSLR camera, and if you don’t like it you’re stupid and DIE!

Right-o, with that out of the way, let’s move on to the real point of this post. Although I’m a photography newbie, just at the beginning of my education in lighting, composition, exposure, and so on, there is one area where I might be of assistance to more experiences photographers: identifying photo hotspots on Oahu.

Other guides will direct you to the standard spots: Tantalus, Lanikai Beach, Hanauma Bay, Byodo-In Temple, the Pali, and the big surf beaches on the North Shore like Pipeline. These spots are glorious and you’ll definitely enjoy photographing them.

But there are a great many other interesting subjects on Oahu, and I think I just might be able to identify a few that you won’t find elsewhere on the web. So I’ve started a new post category, Oahu Photo Hotspots.

In this post I’ll tell you why you might want to visit Moanalua Gardens, and then brainstorm a few other spots worth checking out.

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