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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1. 

   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

3. 

   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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1. 

   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

2. 

   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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