Check out this lovely video just sent from our album company, Cypress Fine Handmade Albums as their holiday greeting. In it, you can see just how lovingly and painstakingly they make all of their museum-quality albums. Straight down to hand-cutting the pages and mats. We’re so proud to support them and to offer their handcrafted, eco-friendly albums, folios, and boxes in all that we do!
It’s my goal to start posting more personal and travel photography on our blog along with images from recent sessions. So here are some images of the lovely scenery during our trip to Hawaii last July to go along with the recent posts from the KICKASS wedding we were there to photograph.
I’ll start with the beautiful Hawaii High Country, add some snapshots of the Mauna Lani Bay grounds and nearby coastline, and finally, leave you with photos from our epic 12-hour adventure circumnavigating the island in our Mustang convertibles all the way down one side, to Akaka Falls and Volcanoes National Park (where there sadly was no active lava to see) and back up the other side! Enjoy!
We even had the camera turned on us by Christen at Akaka falls, where she snapped this photo of Justin and I enjoying the cool spray. Thanks, Christen, you’re the pro now!
This is the third and final post in our series from Christen + Leigh’s epic Hawaii destination wedding with karaoke craziness and Mauna Lani Bay sea turtle Independence Day. We hope all the gorgeous Hawaii imagery has kept you warm!
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Laura and Keegan, you guys are such a gorgeous, fun-loving couple! We had a blast wandering all over Queen Anne with you for your engagement photos, from ogling the city skyline at Kerry Park to sipping a Starbucks latte underneath the space needle. Here’s a little teaser for you, but you’ll have to wait until tonight to see the full set of photos. We promise it will be worth the wait!
XOXO,
Kat + Justin
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As if their destination wedding week wasn’t epic enough, Christen and Leigh were also asked by the wonderful staff at the Mauna Lani Bay resort if they wanted to take part in this year’s Sea Turtle Independence Day on the Fourth of July. The Mauna Lani hand-raises baby sea turtles in some of their on-ground ponds to mature adulthood and then releases them when they are big enough to fend for themselves in the less hospitable sea. Every Independence Day, they release the newly minted turtles into the sea with the help of guests and their children. Of course, Christen and Leigh were all like, “HECK YES, SIGN US UP.” (I was too, I mean, who are we kidding… I love me some sea turtles!)
Sea turtles abound at the Mauna Lani… maybe the beach has some really tasty algae growing there. The first night I stumbled upon what I thought was a dead sea turtle on the beach and I was really upset. The staff reassured me it was just sleeping, which I thought was a cover-up, hush-hush way to get rid of the dead sea turtle without upsetting the guest. It turns out, sea turtles just sleep like the dead (something they usually do during daylight hours) and my “dead” friend moved on after a nice, long nap. Almost every day there was a sea turtle sleeping in the same spot on the beach. In the evenings, more animated turtles would swim offshore and nibble the sea plants there, which I discovered when two of them bumped into my legs as I was wading. Why hello there!
So I was totally psyched to photograph these two letting a sweet sea turtle free into the wild blue. The turtle Christen and Leigh set free was named Pilialoha, which means “a loving or tender relationship.” Aww!
The local news channel also reported on the event, with a short video where you watch the newlyweds release Pilialoha!
Want more photos? Check out Christen and Leigh’s destination wedding at the Mauna Lani Bay, complete with karaoke craziness!
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