Masters

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Ken Goodrich

Ken’s passion for photography was ignited many years ago when he began documenting the vanishing culture of the Otomi Indians of Tlacotlapilco Mexico. This spark was quickly kindled and expanded to include explorations of fine art photography. In his quest for self-expression, he embraced special effects films and processes, image compositing, and macro photography.

For much of his photographic career, he has focused on visual design for multi-image events (projected imagery with music).  He continues this journey today using the tools of digital photography and editing.

 In 2007, Ken and his wife Mary founded their company, Hawaii Photo Retreat, providing photographic workshops and tours on the Big Island.  They are based in Volcano Village. 

Floral Fantasy

Bill Irwin

Photography is such a wonderful media, there seems to be a niche for every interest.  I'm still mostly interested in documenting man's activities, especially when it comes to the more fun and bizarre human activities.  Of course when I go out into nature I want to capture all that glory also.  After a while one accumulates a body of work, a combination of one's interests and a record of what one sees and places traveled too - a regular diary of one's life.  Our times are a wonderful time to be practicing photography, new technology is enabling new ways to capture images and has brought millions into the realm of photography.  New pathways of communication have made photographs even more central to the way we communicate and to the ease we can place our images in front of the public eye. Developments in software has made for new ways to visualize the world and to transform that vision.  My photograph "Floral Fantasy" is an example of new software technology that is enabling photographers to reveal in an enhanced way the beauty and intricate nature of our world.  This photo is an example of High Dynamic Range photography.
 

Pu'ukohola Morning

Tom Whitney

Tom Whitney is a Hilo photographer and writer happily married to his sweetheart Betsy. In photography he has concentrated on the Hawaiian and Native American cultures. He created the “Mauna Kea – The Temple” museum exhibition that will be at the Pahoa Museum in Pahoa from June 6 through August 8.  He has created the posters for the Inter Tribal Powwows held in Wailoa River State Park every May by the Federation of American Natives. As a writer he was editor of a Hawaiian culture curriculum for domestic violence offenders and is currently writing a case study of the successful diabetes self-management program at the Bay Clinic in Hilo.

Enthusiast

SMURF BERRY BLUE

Joe Laceby

Born in the shadow of Tulsa OK, 1970. Farm boy by nature but grew up the king of dirt ball wars. My interest in art began early, very early. My father was the developer for the Tulsa police crime lab and I spent many a summers hiding out in that lab. I was given a tall stool to watch all of the processes but I was told to close my eyes when some of the final crime scene prints were washing...( I peeked). I remember the fascination that 7 year old had in a place that few children were allowed. My father's darkroom fascinated me, not only in a visual sense; but it also imbedded within me a memory of the non-visual stimulants associated with a darkroom. The feeling of trusting darkness, the coolness of the constantly flowing water, and the smells that would creep around from the different chemicals.  Many years later in a college photography class, this imbedded memory was awakened. It allowed me to bring back to the medium the playfulness of a child's vision from which it was personally discovered. It's from this that my prints say what they need to say without the complexities of the critically educated adult eye. The cyanotype process allows this to happen in the very nature of the final print. But like anyone true to their vision, the physical deconstruction and reorganization of the print is where the excitement lies for me. I'll never claim to be a purist, only an artist... A maker of things..

 

MAORI WRASSE

Molly Timmers

The intricate and intriguing patterns, textures, and contrasts of ocean life bewitched me to macro underwater photography.  I have been working as a marine biologist for over 8 years in Hawaii. Monitoring and assessing coral reefs throughout the Pacific has enabled me to examine and witness adaptive patterns and textures on critters that tend to be overlooked by most divers. I like shooting abstract patterns in nature and I prefer shooting in black and white because color tends to take the eye away from the complexity of the design.

ORNATA

Doug Toomey

Doug Toomey moved to Hawaii in 1980 having grown up in the Boston area.  He is a 1977 Graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and worked building infrared cameras for the University of Hawaii for 25 years.  He now owns Mauna Kea Infrared, LLC a Hilo based company that builds elector-optical equipment mostly for use in infrared astronomy on large telescopes.  He started talking art photographs of natural objects in February 2008.  He lives in Hakalau with wife Dao and five year old Mitra.  Primary equipment includes Canon 5d (i and ii), 100mm f/2.8 macro and 300mm f/2.8.

Honorable Mentions

Kathleen Carr

Kathleen T. Carr, is a professional and fine art photographer, teacher, author, and a former Creative Uses Consultant for Polaroid. She holds a BFA in Photography from Ohio University, and studied extensively with Minor White before working for Aperture Magazine. Her work has been exhibited widely and has appeared in numerous books and  periodicals, including her books, Polaroid Transfers: A Complete Visual Guide for Creating Image and Emulsion Transfers, Polaroid Manipulations: A Complete Visual Guide to Creating SX-70, Transfer, and Digital Prints (Amphoto Books), and To Honor the Earth: Reflections on Living in Harmony with Nature (HarperSanFrancisco). Her current passions are black and white infrared photography and filming wild dolphins. She resides on the Big Island of Hawaii.

MONKEYPOD, PAHALA

Mary Goodrich

The photographs of Mary Goodrich are primarily landscapes and botanicals.  She records her views through eyes that constantly seek uniqueness in nature.  In her work, there is awareness of the constant flow and change of light, texture and form in our island environment. 

“I try not to attach a name to whatever I am photographing, but to be an observer of various elements as they become clear to me.  Too strange?  Okay, I just look at stuff and take the picture when it feels right”.

Mary Goodrich is a self-taught photographic artist living in Volcano with her husband, Ken.  Together they created their business, Hawaii Photo Retreat which focuses on photo tours and workshops.  Mary has won many awards for her work in Hawaii and on the mainland.   She is the current Secretary for the Hilo Photography Club. 

DA KINE BY BLACK SAND

Jayne Pinc

Aloha!  Originally a country gal from mid-Ohio, I have lived also in Seattle, Arizona, and wilderness areas of Alaska.  I am now living a lifetime dream in the Hawaiian Islands (for over 20 years).  The beauty of this island forms the backdrop of my landscape photos and I have a special affinity for trees, forests & flora, and the enigmatic nostalgia of the older buildings found here.  After many years enjoying photography, I now tend to view the world as compositions seen thru a finder and enjoy both the immediacy of the snapshot and, by printing, the permanency of the final art form.

Student

Brandon Lorusso

My name is Brandon Lorusso a freshman at Laupahoehoe School and a Civil Air Patrol cadet at Lyman Field Composite Squadron. My teacher, Dr. Lasso, inspired me to participate in the Photo Expo this year. Dr. Lasco helped me choose my picture, with only a week to enter.  I decided on the "Anticipation" picture and my teacher convinced me to enter the photo "It's a Stretch". I thank him for teaching me everything I know. He has been very supportive. I thank my mother for being supportive. And also my father, who is the subject of both my photos.
 

Megan Politano
 

My name is Megan Politano. I am seventeen and just graduated from Connections Public Charter High School. I always have my camera with  me, so I am always taking pictures. I plan to continue doing  photography as a hobby. I look forward to my college years at UHH  studying psychology. My dogs Butch and Cassidy are my favorite subject  to photograph, I love them so much.

 

HONORABLE MENTION

BAYFRONT À LA DUOTONE

Kevin Kadooka

Photography in my youngest years merely involved the practice of pointing the camera where I wanted and taking the picture, regardless of trees and poles growing out of heads, or even faces and limbs amputated entirely. This style persisted for the greater part of my 16-year existence, but in recent years I've developed a serious interest in photography. Despite having been born in the digital age, I take pleasure in learning and practicing traditional darkroom techniques using my father's film SLR, whose age is at least twice my own. Conversely, I also use a DSLR as well as Photoshop and Lightroom to create my images. Lately, my most engaging projects have been a stop animation film and yearbook portraiture for upcoming seniors at Hilo High School. In a few months, I will be leaving the islands to attend the University of Portland in order to pursue a career in engineering. Though I must leave my family and peers to do so, my interest in photography will certainly follow me.

People's Choice Award

Michael Paravano