Casey Templeton Photography

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Twitter winner: @PatrickSmithRVA

Facebook Fan Page Winner: Tina Lujan Gordon

And on day 6, there was rain. Day 7, the clouds opened up and made for a perfect helicopter ride over Maui and Molokai.

You guessed it, I am not a certified diver… yet. So the Maui Ocean Center is the best I could do. Still, it is a huge challenge to take something that is photographed by 1000’s of people a day and make it your own. Its a tougher challenge than you might think. Maybe my next trip back, I will be certified and I won’t be cheating like this!

Want to win a 20×30″ canvas print of one of these? See here: http://z.pe/hvd

I will be giving away three 20×30″ canvas prints from my trip to Hawaii, one to a Twitter follower, one to a Facebook fan member and one that is open to only entrants in the Richmond area. If you win, you chose the photo to be stretched and mounted.

There are two ways for you to win:

1. Become a fan of Casey Templeton Photography on Facebook and simply leave message on the wall. This is also available to current fans.

2. Follow Casey Templeton on Twitter and RT the following message for a chance to win:

Follow @caseytempleton & RT this for a chance to win 1 of 2 20×30″ canvas #photography prints from #Hawaii info: http://z.pe/hvd

JUST ANNOUNCED! Additional sponsor and third print!
FRAME NATION (@FrameNation) will be providing the stretching and mounting of the two canvas prints and also sponsoring the giveaway of a third print which is open only to Richmond entrants. The winner of the Richmond drawing will receive a $50 FRAME NATION gift certificate in addition to the canvas print.
FRAME NATION ”Design Global. Frame Local.” is Richmond Virginia’s custom framing boutique and the area’s source for contemporary & international frame design. Located in Richmond’s historic river district.

Winners will be selected at random from eligible Twitter followers and Facebook fans when the contest ends on August 26th.

Mahalo!

I have never seen so many stars in the sky as I do in Hawaii. I only hope this photo conveys a fraction of the beauty.

I actually find Hawaii one of the toughest places I have ever photographed. This may sound funny but I have always explained to aspiring photographers that their job is not to photograph something beautiful and automatically think it will make your photo beautiful, you need to find something and make it your own. Take a photo that the person next to you would not recognize because you added your style the situation. Here in Hawaii I find that I don’t see many things to take photos of because there is no way for me to make it better than what I see. I drove/walked around this morning for nearly 90 minutes and did not take a single photo.

In addition, I HATE sunset photos; seeing them and taking them. But, I am trying to force myself to get over that so here is my first go at a sunset.

A few select photos shot today on the first day of my trip to Hawaii with my wife. I decided to take the trip to work on my travel portfolio which will be highlighted in my upcoming rebranding launch! Bookmark www.caseytempleton.com and sign up at the Facebook fan page to be the first to see the new site.