20 minutes - 1/7/2012

Saturdays are filled with errands and chores and by the end of the long day, I'm beat. But today, as I was driving home from Hawaii Kai and I could see the sun was setting. It was so beautiful, I had to stop at Maunalani Bay and watch the sunset. I was sooo lucky that I had my Lumix and it was the best 20 minutes I spent of a long day.

It was so picturesque, I decided to use PSE and turned it into a painting using the Fresco effect.

I put some texture in this one..so it'd look like an oil painting..

I kept snapping but the refresh rate of my lumix is slow and as I saw the green flash in my LCD, my camera wasn't able to snap.. I exclaimed, "I saw it, but I missed it".. the other photog next to me said he missed it too.. argh..and we both laughed.

I remembered Jennifer Wu at the photog talk said that half hour after the sunset was also called the "golden hour".

As I was shooting, people walked into my shot which I think turned out to make the shot even better. I used the Ink Edge effect to make it look like a drawing and also brings out more of a silhouette.

I've never thought of watching the sunset at Maunalani Bay and today's detour really made my day.