Weather Pictures Around Oahu

On the way to drop off my son to school... oh, how beautiful the Lord lights up the Earth early in the day...

Coming home one day... doesn't that mountain ridge look like a sleeping giant? A prego one that is....

On a cloudy day, I believe this one was taken in Manoa, while waiting for my son to get off of school.....


Another day of clouds....


Another one taken of the early morning sun rise...

This one is of an early morning shot of Ko' Olina beach, while the waters were still n' probably cold!!!
That's it for now!

Aloha,
Jen

It's been awhile....

Hey there.... it's been a while, hasn't it?! I haven't posted on this blog since last year of June! Wooo Weeee.... well, thought I'd start posting some pics again, so that I can jump around between hobbies when I'm bored. LOL! I've also decided to post again, because my Brother in Christ, Jesse is over at Afghanistan and I thought I'd share some Hawaii photos on here so that he can always have a peek at Hawaii when he is home sick. If you'd like to read about his journey, please check out his blog at "Living In Harm's Way".

Before I share my pics, I wanted to share with ya that my Adobe Photoshop Element was deleted from my hard drive, and for the life of me, I can't seem to locate the disk itself. So I checked only for some photo imaging software (free - of course), and found this GIMP program. It pretty much allows me to do just about, if not all the same features that the APE program allowed me to do. So I'm going to be trying out some features on it to see how much capability it has. My main thing that I needed was able to put a watermark on my images, which you can see that it clearly does.

Anyways, here are the pics I have to share with you today..... the 1st two pics are of a plant that was in front of one of my neighbor's house. I love that about Hawaii, that people are able to plant pretty plants in their yards, and it just adds to the ambiance. I used the "cartoon" filter on the 2nd pic, experimenting with the GIMP program a little. It looks pretty cool....

3rd photo here is of a close up of one of the branches of a palm tree in another neighbor's yard... and the last pic I took a step back and took a pic of the entire tree (well, at least the top of it). These were all taken during my walk around my neighborhood.... it was a nice sunny day and no flash was needed.



May you have a beautiful weekend... and hopefully I'll see ya back here tomorrow. I think I'll post pics that I've taken during the week and share with you here on the weekends...

Much Blessings...
Hugs,
Jen

Good Kine Grindz.....

Food pics from my recent Glama Gurlz gathering....







Food pics from my recent Glama Gurlz gathering.... all pics were taken with my Sony.

Kapiolani Womens n' Children's Hospital

This is the hospital I was born at (along with many of my local stamping sisters), oh, and so was President Obama!!! I took this photo with my Sony Camera, while on the drive home from picking up my son from school. I enhanced the photo with Photo Shop Elements. I really love how the colors of the sky and the building looks. Does it look good on your end? Or is it just my computer? It is a little blurry since we were moving when the photo was taken - but not bad, ya?!

2nd Batch of Photos....

These photos were taken with my Luminux 12x....

The Waterfront Towers @ Kaka'ako, I was driving down to Fisher's and couldn't resist taking this photo.


The Trolley that goes from the airport, to Aloha Tower and then Waikiki....

Another Red Torch Ginger in my garden....

My son's friend's pet pig "Pork Chops"....

"The Ball" - a Military tool, which I assume is used to shoot down any missels that may head towards the Aloha State (yikes!!!!).
More coming soon...

My 1st Batch of Photos

Here we go... here are some photos I took sometime the beginning of 2009.

State Capital of Hawaii, in downtown, Honolulu. This photo was taken from my Grandma's room at Queen's hospital (thru the window).


This is one of my favorite photos, of a red torch ginger, in my yard. The house is my neighbor's.


Ants on an Mountain Apple from my mom's garden....

Mountain Apples from my mom's garden. I like the clearness on this photo.


This photo was actually taken with my cell phone, so sorry it's not of great quality. But it was pretty neat to see the moon off to the side after the photo was taken, so I wanted to share it with all of you.


Ahhhh.... rainbow over Pearl City one gloomy morning. Just so happen that the person's house that is off to the right had a coconut tree, makes the scene "officially" a paradise shot.


Plumeria bunch in my mom's garden. This one was also taken with my cell phone. Pretty color, ain't it?!?

Clouds that look like cotton, taken with my cell phone camera, and while I was driving home in traffic.

A New Blog for a New Hobby....

Starting another blog, so that I can share my photos that I take of Hawaii (with a little story behind each of them). I'm also on a journey to "try" and learn how to take better photographs. I'm always in awe of how the professionals do it, and every now n' then I surprise even myself. =0) I'm NOT trying to make this a profession, just playing around n' dabbling, adding it to my long list of hobbies.

So stop on by here once in a while, and I hope you enjoy what I've got to share with you!!

Toodles!
Jen