Beach Park by reckinyards

You have been featured in my latest edition of Travel The World: Travel The World Vol. 5 - Hawaii
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page."
St. Augustine of Hippo
The world offers so many breathtaking locations and places to see and not everyone is able to visit them in person. With this new feature series I invite you on a journey to discover and enjoy the beauty our planet offers. Let's travel the world!

Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Ocean

For many of us Hawaii, the 50th state of the USA, is probably still the perfect image of paradise -  with white beaches, palms, flowers and lot of sun. Perhaps you think of the amazing waves which offer wonderful surfing and diving possibilities. Or would you rather visit untouched wilderness, a pulsating city, small villages, learn about the cultural background of the local people? All of this is possible on the eight islands of Hawaii.

I hope you'll enjoy the feature.

Absolutely gorgeous!

amazing colors, like heaven

Simply heaven

like the scenery

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wow this is amazing the colours and the scenery is just gorgeus did you take this picture?

Stunning!

This has been featured in my journal.

The colors are so beautiful!

amazing shot!

I used your picture here [link] I hope there is no problem, but if you don't like I can remove the work, thanks a lot..

omg that is just fantastic!! i love it!

Brilliant use of reflections on this composition is tight to what was this shot on?

Gorgeous!

that's awesome...but id already seen it...on webshots! That's cool.

Wonderful use of the water to reflect the sky and trees!

modified or not, this is a wonderful photo! I want to keep staring at it. The colors are so rich.

i'm originally from O'ahu (Makaha).

i swear, the sunsets are SO much nicer than Hilo ones.

AlaMos..... nice pic...

I love the colors and the reflection on the water. I think that having the tallest tree in the middle makes the photo more pleasing to the eye. Its a great shot.

dreamplace, great reflection

this is amazing I love your pics!!

simply amazing!!

wow.. how come I've never noticed this pic on your gallery? well, i'm glad i did awesome reflections and colors.. hawai.. ^^

awesome reflection

Wow, such colors!
But the reflection looks unreal
Great job anyway.

Beautiful.

Wow, that is a great one. Kudos!
Though the refelction is usually about 2 stops darker, if you wanted it to look a little more realistic.
Anyways, still love it either way.

Eye catching with all of those colors. But, that "slightly modified" in the description makes me suspicious. With all of the motion blur in the trees and clouds, and the way there's no yellow in the water, none of the lights from the lanterns or building, the lack of ripples... It made me think that the reflection was actually a duplicate of the image above the central line, with much of the bottom cropped off, flipped vertically, then with a brush tool to create the black at the new bottom... If that isn't so, I apologize and blame the blur and the use of the line in the description.
Either way, the artificial lights in the backround should be cloned away, IMO. As I kind of mentioned before, there's the motion blur- a shorter shutter speed should have been used to get the sharpness in the clouds and leaves- even though it would make the picture darker, that can be repaired in PS, but you can't create sharpness unless you basically redraw the entire photo. It's a bit dark as it is, mostly at the bottom of the picture. But you've already heard my theory about that... ^_^

Oh wow beautiful capture

that's beautiful.

Gorgeous! The colors are great!