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Published: 2005-08-16 08:32:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1746; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 168
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Without anyone else,Even paradise can be lonely.
This image is dedicated to all my friends and all of you folks that are going to college soon. Today a number of my friends that I knew from seventh grade left for college... its a sad time. In a few weeks I leave as well, I leave Hawai'i, a place that I will never forget and always remember. It just goes to show, man is nothing without his/her friends and family. I know I will eventually return to these islands, but the thought of traveling thousands of miles away and leaving people who I quite frankly might NEVER see again is depressing. SO here is my photo, a photo about beauty mixed with a strange melancholy sadness. Maybe these tree trunks will find comfort in their seemingly desolate paradise existence, maybe I might find comfort in knowing that I can always return home. Return.
Technical
D70
Nikkor 20mm 2.8AFD <----- an awesome lens that I highly recommend!
A little bit of sadness
A lot of hope
Waimanalo Beach, Oahu
I hope you all return to the places and people you love. Peace. :mosaic:
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Comments: 55
Awesome shot! Very cool colors in the ocean. May I ask what you thought of the 20mm lens? I've got my eye on one right now
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wow!...that picture is amazing.it looks like they are sun-bathing or trying to reach out to the sky!
its beautiful
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Simple, graceful, sad. It's funny, you know, the first thing I thought when I looked at this was how pretty it was, and yet I had no interest in going to such a place. There's nothing really there.
I hope you make lots of friends to fill the loneliness in your heart, and that your eventual return to Hawaii is triumphant!
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interesting shot!
totally love the color of the sky.. brilliant...
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such a picture perfect postcard shot, it makes you want to be there, and feel the rough grain of the wood and taste the sea air!
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beautiful!
although sad... i completly understand your meaning behind this and its brilliant, you've captured it so perfectly too! I have experienced a similar thing a few years ago, and things will be good, don't worry about it, as you say and as I do you can always return home
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wow beautiful shot 
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This is so pretty... I know I say this in a lot of comments, but its really surreal... I love the feeling.
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Simple and stunning... beautifully seen my friend!
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this picture is beautiful! have been to Waipahu? my graduated in from the high school there. and something that just came to mind is a name of a street she used to live on called, "Hoolaulea". i could never pronounce that right. ^^
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haha yeah i've been to Waipahu a bunch of times, i'm a "townie" though..lol..... sad that you had to leave this great place though 
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perplexing...i like how its titled Return, but the contents don't signify anything leaving or coming back. just staying. and the colors and compostion are beautiful.
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Visual and written paradoxes are my specialty! 
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you better keep that up, cause its awesome. and youre welcome
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thats really cool.. great coenpt and well done.. though i think itd be better at dusk.. to show the end of living at home and such
still well composed and good colors
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ahh yes, this actually was the ending part of a portrait shoot that began at sunrise, but I do see the symbolism in the fading light ...excellent observation.. Now if only i had some ND grad filters...
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wow, the colours are just stunning! ouh, i wish to be there!! aaahh
nice shot and great concept!
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this is a beautiful shot, very well done compositionally. Gorgeous colours.
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thanks very much, i do appreciate your support!
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It's difficult to say more that what BlessGirl has said already. It is her interpretation, but I too interpret a sense of loneliness, desolation counterbalanced with unity and beauty. It's quite amazing to get this type of emotional response from an image, which of course goes to say how talented you are. I also can relate on a deep level with what you write, having experienced it not long ago. Best of wishes on your travels and creative process.
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Thank you for all you kind words, I really do appreciate.. and i'm not just saying that as a farse or anything, I really do appreciate that my work has some impact on at least one person, if i can affect at least one person's view of something then i consider my job done. It means so much to me when I can get a response like this and for that I whole heartedly thank you. I wish the very best in all your endevors and hope that some day you can "Return" to the places and people you love.
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thanks man you know i appreciate it!
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photo after photo... all your shots make me love hawaii even more... sucks i had to leave =\
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haha i know what you mean, well I hope you "return"
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thanks very much, I appreciate it!
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thanks dude you know i appreciate it!
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The picture looked pretty at first sight - and after reading your comment, it became touching too. Well done
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thanks very much, I appreciate it!
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i know exactly what you're going through. it's really hard. here's hoping we come out of it as better people.
great photo, great message.
+fav. top-notch.
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that's beautiful
i love those trees, whatever it was doing there 
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Brilliant shot, Love the way the Trees almost Frame the ocean....very lonely shot aswell you really bought the message across wonderfully. I also like the way the way the branch on the right is so dark like that, Sorta depressing which once again brings the feeling of lonliness across, Composition is also brilliant!! Wonderful...
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This picture is one of those simple, yet extremely extravagent pictures! I love the colors, as they make you feel as if you were on a beach laying in the sun as this picture is. The dead trees give to the effect of beach front, as well as the sand and water for obvious reasons. The color of the sky is just great! did you use a polarizer for the effect, or did occur like that naturally?
Anywho this is an ecvellent shot!! Keep up the great work!
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I stupidly forgot my camera bag w/ the circular pol. in the car *slaps forehead*, but in this case the wide angled prime lens I had and the low lying sun made up for it...
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wow you managed to pull that one off, though what prime lens were you using? I have a 85mm and a 25mm
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i used a 20mm nikkor AFD prime, its an AMAZING lens, light and exceptionally sharp. I have the 85mm too thats an awesome peace of glass too.. i love shooting it at f2! I didn't know nikon made a 25mm prime, is it an AIS lens?
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I'm using a canon 10 d, so its a ef lens.. or whatever they are called... sorry im sort of new to the dslr world
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I love the warm and vivid colours and the composition 
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i want to go there.
i don't mind if i'll be alone.
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beautiful. where are you going? incredible depiction of a concept, i love the loneliness and vaguely tragic and hopeful promise of return as seen in the postures of the "trees." wonderful. +fav
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so sad, but so beautiful. i know how you feel, im going through sort of the same thing right now; that being it's hard to let go of old friends. nice job on this photo.
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