Mana Kai is a resort on the West shores of the island of Maui, in Kihei, Hawaii. Every night, at sunset, the conch shell horn is blown to say goodbye to the day, and hello to the night. I shot this long exposure at this moment, in a high dynamic range way. Hope you like it. Mahalo!

Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens. Developed in Adobe Lightroom 4 beta, HDR in Photomatix4 and sharpening in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5.

Location: 20° 42' 16.16" N, 156° 26' 49.43" W

These are the stars over Acadia National Park in Maine. This photo was taken on March 6, 2012. I took 30 second exposures at f/4 and ISO 200 for about 3 hours, then I merged them together using a program called Startrails.

Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, Canon wired remote.

Taken close to Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan. You can see them off to the right. The rain started shortly after this.

Nikon D90, Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR, Adobe Lightroom 3. 8-second exposure.

Downtown Seattle skyline taken from Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill. Taken using a 71-second exposure, ISO 100, f/22. The "S" shaped line of light was from a helicopter that was circling the city while the shot was taken.

Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, tripod, and remote shutter.

Shot at the Seattle Aquarium. It's quite hard to focus on such a small fish.

Nikon D700, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8G, Apple Aperture 3.2.

This photo was taken at the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in the Death Valley National Park - a great sandbox for all the tourists that come here. Nevertheless, at the the end of the day, all that's left of them are their footprints in the sand. So I enjoyed the wonderful colors of the sunset on my own :) By the way, all you can hear in a sand desert is your own breath and the pulse in your ear - very interesting effect...

Canon EOS 600D, Sigma 18-50mm DC OS HSM, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

This was taken for the photography club at my school. It is green Palmolive dish soap on a cup. The color is natural and comes from the soap refracting the light from the SB-600 flash.

Nikon D90, reversed 35mm f/1.8, SB-600 with umbrella.

Took this photo from the Toronto CN tower this past Summer. The sky was amazing.

Nikon D300s, 10mm Sigma, CPL filter and some adjustments in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.

An inspiring sunset. Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland.

Nikon D700, Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF.2

A nearly full, waxing-gibbous phase of the Earth's moon. Shot on November 8th, 2011 from Hanover, New Hampshire.

Cable release and mirror lock-up mode to reduce camera shake. Live-view mode zoomed in 10x for focusing.

10-inch f/6.3 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (Meade LX200). Shot at 1600mm, f/6.3, 1/250 second, ISO 200 with a Nikon D700 at prime focus.