Honolulu Festival Day 1 - 3/13/2010

I spent two days taking photos at the Honolulu Festival. There were LOTS of entertainment and I spent most of the time watching performances from the main stage. After having spent time taking a lot of basketball shots, I learned about changing speed and aperture to get sharper action shots that it helped me in capturing these performance shots. I was able to find seats on the 2nd row so I got close to the action and even closer w/ my 70-200mm zoom lens.
There were lots of Hula performers who came from Japan. The announcer was saying there were probably more hula dancers in Japan than there are in Hawaii!
The last performance of the day was this group playing tradition Koto music.
After all the performance closed at the Convention Center, I headed over to check out the performance at Ala Moana Center Stage. I saw this energetic group called Sugaren last year and I'm glad I got to see them again.
There were also these two mime performers.
More Hula Performers from Japan.
The sun was setting and it started to get darker but I still tried to use available light. This band from Hickam jammed Hawaiian music!
The last performance of the night were these energetic cheerleaders.