Hawai'i photos

First off, I use Photoshop Elements 8, thanks for asking Corey. I meant to reply back to you but forgot. Anyway, it has been great, although I use maybe 0.05 percent of its capabilities at the current time. So here are the pictures (okay only 4 of the 448 I took while in Hawai'i). This Nate running on the beach. Hickam AFB is right there close by and they rent snorkle gear cheap so we went there for the day. Snorkling there is terrible, but for a first timer like Nate it was good to get him in the water and get some experience. This was shot using the 18-55mm lens and then cropped using ADP Elements 8. A lot of my photo's from the trip have a bluish filter to them, the result of shooting with the light meter set for flourescent lighting and not changing it back. Funny when I adjusted the camera for Nate, Kaye or the unsuspecting tourist to take our picture the bluish tinge went away. I will one day figure out there is an "Auto" function that will adjust for lighting. Anyway, the camera was set for 1/500 with f/14.
On one of the days where we had time to bum around we went looking for the northshore and missed it by hitting the east side of Oahu (we didn't have a map, and yes, pilots are navigationally challenged). The larger photo has the black volcanic rock and the surf coming in, this is cropped. I liked the way the water looked in the left side of the picture. My attempt at being artistic.

It wouldn't be a Hawai'ian vacation without any photos of a surfer. No, I didn't attempt surfing, I value my neck and the ability to walk, looks like fun though.

We went to the island version of Sea World and did the dolphin encounter. Afterward the did the dolphin show. This guy is about 10 feet in the air when I snapped this picture using my 55-200mm lens. I set the camera in the sports mode for action (hence the picture looks normal not heavy on the blue) and then for continuous shooting for multiple picutres. I was zoomed out to 110mm on the lens and then cropped it using ADP Elements 8. If you zoom in you can see sheets of water, like on a car that is in the rain.