The Road to Hana and Haleakala National Park

The past couple of weeks (or should I say month!), have been extremely busy for me with everything involved with finishing up school at the University of Washington in Seattle. But now, I am done with my sophomore year of college and ready for everything that I have planned this summer, which includes wanting to blog more! :) The first thing up this summer, a trip to Maui.

To start out the trip, my family and I took a couple days to travel over to Hana, a side of the island we don't normally go to. We started out the trip with the always exciting Road to Hana.

Along the way, there are various fruit and juice stands to stop at along the way. We stopped at this one to buy a fresh Maui pineapple and check out the overlook just a few steps behind the stop.

Throughout the drive, there are various overlooks that have terrific views of the coastline. We were fortunate enough to find one turnout where there was a place to stop and head down by the water. 

One of the last stops for Day 1 was Three Bears Falls. While you can see the falls from the bridge, it looked too good to pass up. I HAD to get down to the bottom of the falls. After a little bit of climbing and scaling the rocks to get down, I arrived at the base of the falls. 

We started Day 2 on our way to Haleakalā National Park to hike the Pipiwai Trail to Waimoku Falls. Along the road, there were so many waterfalls. Living in the Pacific Northwest, we're fortunate to have a lot of falls, but there's something magical about the falls in Hawaii.

We got to Haleakalā and started the hike. The hike was beautiful the entire way and consisted of a lot of steps, tree branches along the path and bridges to cross over. 

Roughly half the way along the hike, you come across the bamboo forest. This was remarkable. The bamboo is taller than you can imagine and when the wind blows the trees make a really cool "clicking" sound when they hit each other. 

We got to Waimoku falls, but sadly, we couldn't get to the base of the falls. I am guessing that it had something to do with some flooding or trails being blocked as it looked like one of the trails was now a stream. I went a little farther than I was supposed to, but hey, it made for a better photo. :)

At the end of the hike, I looped around to the Pools of Oheo. There were so many people in the pools that I didn't like the photo, but the coastline is among the best I've ever seen! I climbed out to some of the rocks at the edge of the coastline and took a couple shots there, then headed back to grab a different angle. The waves breaking here were massive and just added to the spectacle of these cliffs. If you are ever in Maui, I highly recommend this hike, especially if you're there at a time when you can hike up to Waimoku falls and experience being close to the falls.

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ASUW A&E Show 2015 - Rae Sremmurd

As the school year winds to an end in the next few weeks, the UW student government, the Associated Students of the University of Washington (or ASUW for short), puts on a spring concert called the ASUW A&E Show. This year, some of the acts were SZA, A-Trak and Rae Sremmurd. While I hadn't heard of all of the acts, I knew I wanted to try my hand at concert photography!

When I got there, the HUB lawn was filled with people! Some people had gotten there quite early to make sure they had a spot up front against the rail.

The show opened with SZA, an upcoming alternative artist.

Once the show started, everyone was on their feet and enjoying their time at the concert. I couldn't believe how many people had showed up for this.

Rae Sremmurd followed and was the biggest artist at the event. 

One thing that was difficult about photographing this is that these guys MOVE! They didn't stop moving around the stage for their entire performance. The hardest part was making sure that their eyes were in focus, which was hard because the mic was always moving in front of their faces, which didn't let me grab focus too easily.

During the last couple songs, they started pulling people from the crowd on-stage with them.

It was awesome being up so close to the event and being able to photograph the up and coming artists that are always at this event!

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Sean Brown is a nationally featured high school senior photographer based out of Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. If you're interested in booking a session or would like more information, please use the contact link on his website. Sean is now booking sessions for the Class of 2016.


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Red Square Car Show

For the last 8 years, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Washington has put on their Red Square Charity Car Show, which benefits PAWS, a group whose goal is
"rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people."

The show takes place at Red Square and the entire place is filled with cars for this event!

The event takes place with people's cars from around Seattle and Washington to come to this event. 

A lot of the cars were new, but there were some old classics there too.

With that, there's a ton of variety and probably every brand of luxury/sports car you can imagine.

A lot of the cars had their hoods popped open so you could see their massive engines in the cars. The Lamborghini engine was my favorite because it was brightly colored, which was a unique touch.

I loved trying to capture the cars in a slightly different way from one another. Some of the cars had amazingly sleek body styles and you could just tell how fast and powerful they were from their design.

I really loved shooting the backs of the cars and capturing the cool different tail lights and rear design.

About halfway through while I was there. I heard a buzzing in the sky. I looked up and saw some kind of DJI Phantom, which is a quadcopter equipped with a camera for video and photo capture. I couldn't help but think how cool it would be to capture the cars from above, but it also scared me to think about flying it and accidentally crashing it onto one of these very expensive cars!

Notice the quadcopter up in the right corner of the photo flying right above the cars.

Doesn't this make you want to have a couple of these cars to drive around on a nice sunny day? 

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Sean Brown is a nationally featured high school senior photographer based out of Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. If you're interested in booking a session or would like more information, please use the contact link on his website. Sean is now booking sessions for the Class of 2016.


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