Hanalei Bonfire - Kauai, Hawaii USA

Hanalei Bonfire - Kauai, Hawaii, originally uploaded by PatrickSmithPhotography.

Hanalei is a small town on the north shore of the island of Kauai. It has a 3-mile wide perfect crescent of sandy shoreline with the rainiest mountains in the world right behind them. While it rains about 100 inches per year in Hanalei, it rains about 600 inches per year on Mt. Waialeale, about 5 miles behind the peak on the left.

Even with all of the rain, days are usually sunny in Hanalei with maybe 1-2 hours of rain mostly at night. The mountains in this image range from 3,000 to 5,000 feet in height. This shot can only be done with a medium tide and this effect only lasts for a few minutes before another wave moves in.

Here, I attempted to show one of the waterfalls in the reflection. It took about 15 minutes of fiddling around before I finally got it right. All these elements combine to create a thickness to the atmosphere that makes me feel like I'm right back on the beach every time I view this image

10 incredible Easter Island photos

10 incredible photos of the ancient Moai (man-made giants) which are scattered around Easter Island. Photographed by James Craig who visited the island in 2006 for a year. Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on earth, located 2,300 miles of the coast of Chile and 1,100 miles from Tahiti.

via creativeroots.org

awesome!