Mad Marv's Place http://madmarvonline.com/blog Civil Engineer, CAD Geek, podcast junky and amateur photographer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006-2007 blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com (Mad Marv's Place) blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com (Mad Marv's Place) posts A quiet place where I write and nobody reads Mad Marv's Place Mad Marv's Place blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com No no http://madmarvonline.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Mad Marv's Place http://madmarvonline.com/blog 144 144 Tweeball 4 http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/03/09/tweeball-4/ http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/03/09/tweeball-4/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:18 +0000 madmarv http://madmarvonline.com/blog/?p=449 Tweeball_4-43

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Tweeball photo set on Flickr

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Alohatron Fashion Show Flickr photo set

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]]> http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/03/07/polar-plunge-in-support-of-special-olympics-hawaii/feed/ 0 Hawaii Tsunami Panoramas http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/02/28/hawaii-tsunami-panoramas/ http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/02/28/hawaii-tsunami-panoramas/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:21 +0000 madmarv http://madmarvonline.com/blog/?p=421 Well, today will be remembered for some time to come. For most people in Hawaii it will be another near miss. For me, I will likely remember today as a once in a lifetime opportunity. I decided to take a last minute photowalk to Ala Moana Beach ahead of an incoming tsunami.

Surprisingly, there were hardly any other photographers there. I guess good sense is not so rare among photogs after all. Anyway, these panoramas were taken about an hour before the expected landfall of the waves. I’ve Zoomified these pics so that you can look at the high resolution images without downloading a gargantuan file.

This photo shows the mass exodus of boats from the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor. If you zoom in on the horizon, you can see the masts and outlines of a couple hundred other boats offshore.

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Ala Moana Beach Park looking towards the ocean and Diamond Head. Click to see zoomified image

I’m fairly certain that Ala Moana Beach has never been this empty in the middle of a picture perfect day before. And I can’t imagine any other circumstance that will create a shot like this again.

Let’s play a game of Reverse Where’s Waldo. There is one sunbather on the beach in the photo below, go find him or her.

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Ala Moana looking towards downtown. Long panorama. Click to see zoomified image

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Now this is the most eeriely deserted I’ve ever seen Ala Moana during the middle of the day.

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]]> http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/02/22/february-2010-flickr-friday-meetup/feed/ 0 Kahala Counter Burger Happy Hour Tweetup http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/02/21/kahala-counter-burger-happy-hour-tweetup/ http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2010/02/21/kahala-counter-burger-happy-hour-tweetup/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:45:14 +0000 madmarv http://madmarvonline.com/blog/?p=391 Thanks for setting this up @Living2Shop & @KahalaCounter. @HawaiiIRL

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Filming of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 taking place off the shore of Oahu.

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