Josh's Photo Blog

Last week, I was in Honolulu, Hawaii with my girlfriend taking a tropical vacation.  I was born in Hawaii and lived there until I was six years old.  I returned in 2001 with my family for a week, but this was my first time experiencing it as an adult.  I have vowed to never take my big camera on vacation again, and for this trip I used my Canon S90 and my girlfriend’s Lumix TS1 underwater camera.

Here are my favorite photos from the trip, one of which was shot by my girlfriend.

The view from our hotel room

Coconut trees at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Mountain on the way back from the North Shore, photo by Marya

On the path towards Manoa Falls

Trees on the path to Manoa Falls

Path to Manoa Falls

View from Diamond Head of Waikiki

Air bubbles from divers

Air bubbles from divers

Marya swimming in Hanauma Bay with Fivefinger shoes

Tropical fish in Hawaii

After photographing Saturday night, I joined my friends out to dinner in Lower Manhattan.  Here’s a shot I took at 6400 ISO at F2.8 at 1/8th second.

Last week, I photographed the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company giving a grant to the Wanaque Fire Department in Haskell, New Jersey.  They received new radios as well as a new thermal imaging camera.

Fire Chief Lee Smith thanking the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

Fire Chief Lee Smith checking out the new thermal imaging camera in his left hand.  The older camera is in his right hand.

I photographed the NYIT Engineering Contraption/Robot competition at their Old Westbury campus a few weeks ago.  Each team of three students had to design a robot that would autonomously move from one side of the table to the other and pump or carry water back to it’s starting point.

Out of all the teams, only one succeeded with no intervention.  Afterwards, all of the teams did the course again while controlling their robots via bluetooth and laptop computers.

I wish I took a course like this in college!