About the Photographer

About

Thank you for visiting my page, as I am fairly new to wordpress, blogging, and photography. I often use Instagram (@alohafrom808) and Facebook to post my adventures (feel free to visit me!!!), but have been pressured by my peers to post my adventures where they could be appreciated at a higher resolution. hehe. I am not a professional photographer by any means, but just a guy who’s tired of just taking mental pictures of all the remote sites and experiences I have while outdoors. I’d like to share them with my friends and others… and hopefully inspire them to get outside.

Lifestyle

As you may have imagined, most of my time is spent outdoors, whether it being recreational or for my 9-5. To pay the bills I am an environmental researcher where my time is split into being a biologist, doing outreach education with K-12 students, deploying and maintaining wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring, and website design. In my spare time, you will usually find me at the gym, hiking, indoor/outdoor rock climbing, fishing, diving, kayaking, BBQing, relaxing with some yoga, listening to live music or taking pictures.

Outdoors

I have recently been honored to be included in the “Lost Trailblazers” Hawaii hiking crew, where we not only hike Hawai`i’s trails, but experience pretty much every type of outdoor recreational activity that’s offered here in the islands. Our group consists of Troy Takara,David Chatsuthipan, Reanne Solomon, Jennifer Liu, Jenelyn Castillo, Seth Eason, Colin Lulker, myself and many more casual attendees. Most of us are fairly active on Oahu Weekend Hikers facebook group, of which I am one of the site administrators. Feel free to join us as it is not only a forum, but a place where people can share stories, invitations and exchange/contribute information about weekend hikes in Hawai`i.

Photographs

As I mentioned earlier, I am not a professional photographer and have only been playing with my Canon T1i for a couple years now. Living in Hawaii all my life, I’ve found that photos you may find common amongst other photographers include surfers/waves, portraits and wedding photos, or macro-shots of small, interesting things. These are great types of photography, however, there are not many open niches for photographers here in the islands… thus I have tried to be a little different. I often follow cyclical climatic events (e.g. weather, sun/moon-rises/sets) and hike a dslr to a remote area to get a specific azimuth alignment with a particular foreground. Adding such elements may be difficult or time consuming, but can really add style to any photograph. I really enjoy scenic night photography and how the moon can be used to illuminate a landscape. If you would like a copy of the low-resolution digital files as seen on this site for your personal use then please, at least have the courtesy to ask first! Low-resolution images from this site may be saved to your own computer for your personal use, but they remain copyright to Cory Yap and all rights are reserved. They may not be printed, copied, transferred to any other person or used on any personal (non-commercial) web sites unless they are accompanied by a clear link to this Web site and a copyright notice like this example:

“Image © Cory Yap – http://www.alohafrom808.com“

Thank you for visiting and hope that you come back again soon when I have built up the site with more content. Please share with your friends and family, as I do appreciate your support!!!

Aloha,

Cory Yap