Powwow Portrait

"It's part of me, ya know," said Bob Dehmer when talking about the feeling he gets when dancing to the drums of the Inter-Tribal Powwow in Hilo.  Dehmer is from the Iroquois Nation in New York but has been dancing in Hawaii for over 20 years.

Recent Daily Assignments in Hawaii

Graduation

Giving crazy amounts of lei and balloons to graduates is part of the celebration in Hawaii.  Some of the students can't even move their arms.

Cruise Ship

Sometimes we cover cruise ships when they come to port if they've got something special to offer.  This one was the first Disney ship to arrive at a Hawaiian port.  It took the tv camera guy and I way too long to get through the "Disney media police" and we missed most of the showy stuff.  I was a little more drawn to the details anyways.

Green Point Nurseries

I shot these for a business story about tropical flower growers on the island who ship to the mainland for floral holidays like Mother's Day.

Ka'u Coffee Festival

I got to go cover a coffee festival that I thought was going to really visual but was surprised to find that it was less than I hoped for. . . at least photographically, the coffee was great.  I did manage to make one photo that I liked though.  Here it is and here's to kids and too much sugar:

It was about to storm. . .

and the sky was really crazy looking and the light was weird and I was driving to an assignment SO, I photographed some cows.