Toward the end of our trip I rode along with Leigh, Brandon, Rachel & Big Brandon (nephew Brandon’s friend) while they played 18 holes of golf at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel where we stayed.  Here are some of the shots I got of the four of them playing golf.

Leigh spent a lot of time in the sand…

Big Brandon and Little Brandon.

Rachel, Leigh & Brandon on my favorite hole # 3!

Leigh teeing off on hole # 3.

Brandon teeing off on hole # 3.  Did I mention this is my favorite hole??

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I love this pic – such concentration!

I love this photo of Rachel – so cute!

I’m not a golfer but I wanted to get some photos of Leigh playing golf in such an amazing  place.  I am so glad I went.  The course was absolutely beautiful!

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   Those are so fun! Love the last one of Rachel… And YES, YAYA did spend a lot of time in the sand… But she played FANTASTIC!!! She put it on me a couple of times… I’m so glad you got to shoot her in her element! These are so great Leslie… The more I see you do, the more amazed I become…

   Comment by Brandon — December 27, 2009 @ 9:58 PM

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   I love them! The scenery is beautiful and I miss Hawaii! You make us all look like professionals! Thank you for going with me and documenting my awesome swings! LOL

   Comment by Leigh — December 29, 2009 @ 8:10 AM

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   Awwww…. I miss Brandon and Rachel so much!

   Comment by Rich Smith — January 27, 2010 @ 7:37 PM

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Here are some photos I took while we were in Hawaii, once I started feeling better.

By the way, I am ready to go back!

This was the view from our room’s balcony as the sun came up each morning.

This is a view of our hotel from the end of our private beach area.

The entrance area of our hotel, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.

The funny signs posted at the beginning of the treacherously steep trail down to the black sand beach on the other side of the island.

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   Hi Leslie,

   Love your photography!! And your logo turned out really nice. Good job to whomever designed it!!

   Take care,
   Steve

   Comment by Steve Hamaker — January 14, 2010 @ 9:09 AM

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As many of you already know from the previous two blog posts, we decided to go to Hawaii to spend Thanksgiving with our nephew Brandon and his fiance Rachel.  We had a crew of nine people!  It was a truly amazing trip and just what I needed to help me recover from a difficult surgery.

Thank goodness our good friends Rich and Heather took plenty of photos because I was pretty limited in my movement and definitely wasn’t up to lugging around photography equipment.  Here are some photos they captured from the beautiful Big Island!

This is a shot of hole 3 on the Mauna Kea Golf Course

LOVE palm trees!

The fabulous soaps at our hotel!

Heather parasailing!

Rich parasailing!

Love these signs!

The road to our resort.

Above the clouds on Mauna Kea Mountain…Rich and Heather made the long drive up there not realizing it would be freezing when they got to the top!  Everyone was bundled in ski gear and they had on shorts and flip flops!

The sunset from Mauna Kea Mtn.

Heather in this crazy awesome tree.

My mentor, Rich.

We took a drive to the other side of the island to see this black sand beach.

We stopped for lunch at the Bamboo Restaurant.  The “Today’s Special” sign advertised “Naked Chefs and Wild Women”.

I will be posting some more photos from the last part of our trip when I felt a little better and got out with my camera!

A big thanks to Rich and Heather for sharing their photos!

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   These photos are so amazing and bring back so many great memories! You are so talented

   Comment by Rachel — December 15, 2009 @ 2:17 PM

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   Leslie, the pictures are so awesome!

   Comment by vickie — December 15, 2009 @ 3:38 PM

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   Amazing! I hadn’t had a chance to look at all these until today, they are awesome! Great job Leslie!

   Comment by Brandon — December 20, 2009 @ 9:03 PM

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We invited our good friends, Rich and Heather Smith (Rich also happens to be my photography mentor) to go to Hawaii with us.  I wanted Rich to help me shoot our nephew, Brandon and his fiance, Rachel’s engagement session, as well as just hang out and enjoy the most beautiful place any of us have ever seen.  We wanted to document the trip with mini photo sessions of each other.  Rich had been checking out the property and had some very specific ideas in his mind of where he wanted their photos taken.  It was my job to make his vision happen…no pressure there…

Rich and Heather are obviously fantastic to work with, they’re so sweet and so in love that their happiness together is easy to capture in photos.

Here are our favorites from their session.

I adore this photo of Heather…it’s so serene.

I love the intensity here.

Heather has THE best laugh.  It lights up her entire face – I love it.

We were all in love with this amazing tree!  Such a breathtaking location!

I love love love this photo!

So my priority for this shoot was to get “the wave shot”.  It was the one photo Rich wanted above anything else…again…no pressure.  The second one in this series is definitely “the wave shot”, however, we all really like this first one as well.

The Money Shot!  Pretty fabulous, I must admit.

This is my absolute favorite photo of Heather from the shoot.  I love the way the way the wind is gently blowing her hair back and the sunlight is showing through it.  Gorgeous!!

Aren’t they a beautiful couple??  It was such a great experience for the student to photograph the teacher!  Of course I was terribly nervous my shots wouldn’t live up to his vision, but they were actually thrilled with the images – yay!

Rich and Heather, thank you SO much for joining us on the trip!  It was so fun hanging out with you guys.

Thank you for the opportunity to photograph you guys as well.  It was a blast!  I can’t wait for our next trip together…I’m thinking Bora Bora??

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   Les, these photos are amazing! You did a fantastic job…no way they couldn’t be pleased:) So proud of you:)!!

   Comment by Michele P — December 13, 2009 @ 2:54 PM

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   Leslie! It was SO much fun to look through these photos on YOUR BLOG! How exciting! The photos are incredible and we love them so much…and they are particularly awesome with your logo and on your blog with your crazy awesome post-processing. Wow. Thank you so, so, so much!

   Comment by heather smith — December 13, 2009 @ 4:15 PM

3. 

   OMG! this pictures are so awesome!

   Comment by Brittany J. — December 13, 2009 @ 8:30 PM

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   Leslie,
   These are fantastic! The only issue that I have is that Rich didn’t get his jeans wet enough and that you didn’t make him lay on sharp edged rocks… For real real though, you did an amazing job with these. They look so great!!!

   Comment by Brandon — December 13, 2009 @ 8:56 PM

5. 

   You are so amazing!!!!!!! You truly have a gift. All of the pictures are gorgeous

   Comment by Aimee — December 13, 2009 @ 9:16 PM

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   Love all the pictures!!! So proud of you.

   Comment by hope — December 14, 2009 @ 5:22 PM

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   Leslie you did an amazing job capturing some incredible moments! Of course I love “the wave picture” but the ones with the palm trees have to be my favorite And the sunset one is breathtaking! Congrats on an awesome session!

   Comment by Rachel — December 15, 2009 @ 2:21 PM

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While my parents were here visiting us from Washington state, they wanted to get some photos with the grandkids.  We went down to Chattanooga for the day and had fun at the park!  Here are some of my favorites from the day.

My mom with my adorable baby nephew, Keegen.

He really liked the merry-go-round.

I love this photo!  His face is precious with his little curls blowing in the breeze!

Brittany and her boyfriend Travis.

My parents.

I love his cute little scrunched up nose!  He makes this face all the time!

This is so sweet…his little tongue…

Some kids kicked their ball our way.  Keegen grabbed it and had no intentions of returning it!

Learning to walk with Mamaw & Papaw.

Precious!

I think this might just be my favorite from the day!

LOVE this!

Such a sweet moment.

Sweet moment…younger version.

That little face…

Okay, maybe this is my favorite from the day…

My beautiful niece, Chloe, with her Mamaw.

I am so happy I got some photos of my family while they were here!  I love you all!

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This was my first official mentoring photo shoot with Rich of Rich Smith Photography in Chattanooga.  It was terribly hot but Aston was great, even though I am sure with her being 8 months pregnant, it was miserable!

I love this photo of them by a stack of wooden pallets…as Rich said….we made the ordinary extraordinary!

And my favorite shot of the day…Rich is so clever!

Thanks Robert & Aston!  You guys were so patient with us in that heat!  Congrats also on your sweet little girl.  She’s adorable!

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While my daughter, Brittany, was in England and France, her boyfriend, Travis, was missing her almost as much as I was missing her!  We decided to spend the afternoon doing a photo shoot of him in a local cemetery.  Travis was a great model.  He’s a cutie and was easy to work with.  He also had lots of great ideas so we had a lot of fun with this shoot.

Travis loved this fence and wanted a shot by it.  This ended up being his favorite photo.

Thanks Travis!  I can’t wait to do another shoot!

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   All i can say is WOW!!!! i’m lucky to have such a good lookin’ boyfriend!

   Comment by Brittany J. — December 13, 2009 @ 8:38 PM

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