Keith Kefford Photography

Policy statement for the election

2008-09-12T12:17:00.007-10:00

I've slowly been coming to believe that this election has been brought to the lowest common denominator, Not by any "liberal elitist media" but by the republican nominee himself. Or by his handlers as the case may be. Also my entries into the fray have been an unwitting and unhelpful strike at the plump, juicy bait.

It's my own view that this is an extremely important election and that my ravings have been simply preaching to the converted or the uninterested or worse to the contrarily convinced who would not be budged from their convictions in any case by my lunatic ravings. All this has left me not at all consoled or encouraged. This then is my last political email of the season.

I think this much is true, extremest philosophy in politics or religious is dangerous, right or left, fascist or anarchist. So here's what I plan to do, get independent and balanced information from a variety of sources, not just Huffington Post or Bill O'Reilly.

In as much as the new increased role of the internet has broadened the political debate with out elevating it in the aggregate, I will opt out from the email rants.

I will vote on November 4th for the candidate whose policies I think will be best for this country. realizing that there is no perfect candidate and that although, in the words of Bryan Burris "Anyone who wants to be president is crazy and I don't want a crazy president" the job must be filled and I'm on the hiring committee.

I will try to remember that this is not a soap opera or "Northern Exposure" but rather a sacred duty to rescue this country from 8 years of disastrous policy and behave accordingly.

I will vote with out leaving the comfort of my own home. It's easy to do.

I will vote my conscience as though the electoral college did not exist and as if this was a direct democracy, not a republic, and that my individual vote REALLY made a difference.

That's the only way I'll be able to sleep at night.

Thanks for your time.

India Silver

2008-02-19T08:28:00.008-10:00

Our friends at India Silver.com are going strong with wholesale sterling silver jewelry at http://www.indiasilver.com/ and hanging paper star lights at http://store.divine-planet.com/star-lamps.html (We did a shoot for them with the fabulous Lindy on the beautiful island of Kauai!)

New Site

2007-07-20T10:07:00.001-10:00

My new site is now live! It features wedding photography and commercial work as well as galleries of personal projects from the last few years. Have a look and drop me a line!
http://www.kkphotohawaii.com

Lotus Blossom

2007-05-06T13:07:00.000-10:00

Holga, South Point

2007-04-07T14:41:00.000-10:00

Orchid

2007-04-07T14:18:00.000-10:00

Had nice light this morning...

Tree, Green Lake, Puna ,Hawaii

2007-02-22T08:11:00.000-10:00

Father Damian's Church, Molokai

2007-02-14T08:37:00.000-10:00

Molokai Sunset

2007-02-10T16:30:00.001-10:00

Molokai Fishponds, Evening

2007-02-01T12:49:00.001-10:00

Molokai fishponds 3

2007-01-22T10:45:00.000-10:00

More Hawaiian Fishponds

2007-01-14T16:57:00.000-10:00

Molokai Fish Ponds

2007-01-11T08:25:00.000-10:00

These images are of restored ancient Hawaiian fishponds on the island of Molokai. Most are thought to date to the 13th century and some are still in use today. There are as many as 60 of these on the island, some very well restored.

Phone Art 7

2007-01-04T18:37:00.000-10:00

Phone Art 6

2007-01-04T18:36:00.000-10:00

Phone Art 5

2007-01-04T18:32:00.000-10:00

One thing I've discovered in posting these images is the importance of scale. They have much more impact when viewed as small as they appear on the phone it's self. They break up emotionally and visually when displayed at their full resolution. They are just more satisfying as thumbnails...

Phone Art 4

2007-01-04T18:25:00.000-10:00

Phone Art 4

2007-01-01T12:21:00.000-10:00

Phone art 3

2006-12-31T12:16:00.000-10:00

Phone Art 3

2006-12-30T07:40:00.000-10:00

Phone Art 2

2006-12-28T08:01:00.000-10:00

Phone Art

2006-12-26T14:17:00.000-10:00

There is a spontaneity and freedom in using a crappy camera, like the one in your phone for instance. I'll be posting a few abstract, Rorschach type images here for a bit. I don't think it matters what the image is actually of!

Lindy

2006-12-14T11:35:00.000-10:00

From an indiasilver.com shoot, their long awaited redesign is almost live!

Ellie

2006-12-14T11:17:00.000-10:00

Shot after a session for Koagifts.com. Ellie's a natural! A couple more images of her at their site koagifts.com

Asha

2006-12-11T09:11:00.000-10:00

Little Sister Asha Mcginnis

Zoe

2006-12-09T13:41:00.000-10:00

Here she is again, all grown up!

Zoe

2006-12-05T09:14:00.000-10:00

More 70's backlight...

Ricky

2006-12-05T09:08:00.000-10:00

Love that retro 70's look!

Storm

2006-12-04T07:42:00.000-10:00

A wet week here in the middle of the pacific, the first snow of the season fell on the summit of Mauna Kea and down here in the tropical rain forest we had a fire going all day in the wood stove. There was a "puddle" in the road so deep that the bow wave went over the hood of the truck when we drove through it. They don't call it the rain forest for nothing!

2006-12-02T08:53:00.000-10:00

It's a rainy day here, so a little sun is in order...

Beach Palms

2006-12-01T09:10:00.000-10:00

Kona... Sun... Palms...

Sun

2006-11-30T12:10:00.000-10:00

Just a day at the beach... Hey, it's Hawaii!

Yet More

2006-11-29T10:41:00.000-10:00

More...

2006-11-29T10:37:00.000-10:00

Puuhonua O Honaunau

2006-11-29T10:32:00.000-10:00

I just got my new machine up and running and will start posting again after a long hiatus. I 'll be using Picasa to post for a bit and that should make it easy as pie...

This is the recreated hale at the City of refuge in Honaunau, Kona Hawaii

It's Been a while...

2006-11-07T22:06:00.000-10:00

I've had my nose to the grindstone lately and haven't been brimming over with creative energy... So here's a nice peaceful seascape. As my lovely wife says, "There's nothing wrong with a pretty picture." She's right, it doesn't always have to be "Deep".

Ruins 8

2006-10-17T21:45:00.000-10:00

Posting after a wild couple of days, Mother Nature threw us an earthquake and a thunderstorm to end all thunderstorms! All quieting down now, cleaning up and getting back to business as usual... This, of course, from the Papiko Mill.

Ruins 7

2006-10-12T07:33:00.000-10:00

Ruins 6

2006-10-08T07:37:00.000-10:00

...more from the Papaiko Mill

Ruins 5

2006-10-05T11:55:00.000-10:00

Ruins 4

2006-09-30T16:58:00.000-10:00

Ruins 3

2006-09-29T08:33:00.000-10:00

...more from the Papaiko Mill site

Ruins 2

2006-09-26T10:51:00.000-10:00

ruins

2006-09-25T09:44:00.000-10:00

An abandoned Sugar mill. Slowly being eaten by time and jungle. The plantation culture lives on as the descendants of the immigrant workers carry their history into their new urban lives. Hawaiian "local" food is plantation food.

Concrete Landscape 5

2006-09-15T17:17:00.000-10:00

To finish up this series for the moment, another "captive" little piece of green down the bottom of a dark well.

Concrete Landscape 4

2006-09-15T12:29:00.000-10:00

As I post this image, shot while at the Honolulu airport, I can hear a bulldozer clearing the rainforest a quarter of a mile away, making room for more houses. More an more lots are being totally cleared of ohia forest and being ripped and rolled from edge to edge right up to the property line. The forested areas here on the Island of Hawaii are being eaten up an acre at a time. I'll post some images in the next few days.

This "urban" landscape is probably the most familiar to the majority of people now days. We get our glimpses of nature on line, or at the magazine rack at Borders, or growing in a neglected planter box in a parking lot

Concrete Landscape 3

2006-09-12T09:47:00.000-10:00

It's somewhat upsetting that concrete photographs so well.

Concrete Landscape 2

2006-09-09T14:45:00.000-10:00

"Aloha"

Concrete Landscape

2006-09-08T10:04:00.000-10:00

Captive Landscape...

More Seascapes

2006-09-08T08:19:00.000-10:00

Some times you just get great light! Kauai, Hawaii

Seascapes

2006-09-05T22:07:00.000-10:00

I keep being drawn to the seascape. Jung said water represented the unconscious... Perhaps. Dreams are often of the sea, waves, tides, fierce, thrilling. Just “a few days ago” in the time scale of history, the phrase “mysteries of the deep” held true unknown, serpents and sirens.

We are really not too removed from that in our “modern” hearts.

Dog School, Hard Day

2006-09-03T17:26:00.000-10:00

Bushed!

Dog School 5

2006-09-02T07:33:00.000-10:00

...Totem, now a graduate student!

Dog School 4

2006-08-31T06:59:00.000-10:00

Some kids like school more that most!

Dog school 3

2006-08-29T07:20:00.000-10:00

Dog School 2

2006-08-26T08:27:00.000-10:00

fierce concentration....

Dog School

2006-08-24T08:28:00.000-10:00

The last picture of Larry reminded me of a series I shot when he was going to dog school. It was such an inspiring site to see the dogs trying to learn and concentrating like there was no tomorrow. Larry would come home and sleep the rest of the day! He was so exhausted from thinking so hard! I'll post the series here over the next week or so.

Larry

2006-08-23T07:21:00.000-10:00

Some Needed Calm

2006-08-21T10:05:00.000-10:00

...sometimes others like an image better than I do, this is one of my friend Tom's favorites

Old Ohia

2006-08-21T09:38:00.000-10:00

...Just a few more "Old" images. I spent the last few days trying to breath some more life into my elderly desktop machine. Installed Ubuntu as the O.S. It's really elegant and graceful, installs like a charm and all the drivers worked, the printer was supported (which I didn't think would happen based on what I read on line) and it ran like a dream until the hard drive went bad this morning. Oh well. I will be coming back to Linux and Ubuntu on my next machine..

so just a couple of soothing images for my frazzled brain and to keep the creativity flowing and alive

Ohia Forest

2006-08-17T10:37:00.000-10:00

There is a wide swath of old bare Ohia trees on the slope of Mauna Loa. Further up the mountain there are kipuka filled Koa. (A kipuka is a section of older forest that has been isolated. when a lava flow surrounded it on all sides)

A Little More Old Glass...

2006-08-16T08:36:00.000-10:00

...a few more images in this series before we move on to something else.

Old 3

2006-08-14T07:54:00.000-10:00

Old 2

2006-08-12T19:40:00.000-10:00

More minimal landscape. Through old ground glass.

Old

2006-08-10T08:02:00.000-10:00

CW wrote:

"I also like the idea of working with old familiar equipment, playing off its quirks and imperfections. Sometimes the well worn tool in the hands of a master can create a unique kind of beauty that would be impossible through other means."

This image is definitely a blend of old and new technologies. Look for spirit in the imperfection?

Book Of Oceans 3

2006-08-09T15:18:00.000-10:00

Michele from San Francisco wrote:

"Rain coming in over the ocean... Of all the mental images I have of Hawaii, that's the one that means the most to me. Don't know why, but it does.  I guess it dates back to our first summer in Hana and to visits to the Hamakua coast where you are so high and can see so far out to sea."

Pu'uhonua 2

2006-08-09T08:53:00.000-10:00

More from Pu'uhonua O Honaunau... The idea of sanctuary and safety seems very current at the moment. To have it made so concrete in this massive old stone structure feels very solid and reassuring.

Pu'uhonua o Honaunau

2006-08-08T16:04:00.000-10:00

"City Of Refuge" Kona Hawai'i

From the official website: "Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park preserves the site where, up until the early 19th century, Hawaiians who broke a kapu or one of the ancient laws against the gods could avoid certain death by fleeing to this place of refuge or "pu`uhonua". The offender would absolved by a priest and freed to leave."

Book of Oceans 2

2006-08-07T08:40:00.000-10:00

more...

Book Of Oceans 1

2006-08-07T08:31:00.001-10:00

The Book Of Oceans project started as a photoshop montage and is based on a dream of a old huge book with page after page of pictures of the ocean's surface.

More Minimal Lanscape

2006-08-04T14:58:00.000-10:00

More minimal landscape... volcanic fog, known to the locals as "vog", from the Waipio valley look out looking out to sea.

Minimal Landscape

2006-08-04T14:00:00.000-10:00

I've been playing with the concept of minimal landscape for a while now and will post some of these images in the coming days. This is an abandoned eucalyptus grove, originally to be used for paper pulp production, there are acres and acres planted on old sugar land up and down the windward coast of the island of Hawaii.
This was shot with an old tamron zoom that has taken some serious of hard knocks through the years and has some weird focus issues. Large areas of the image have serious ghosting and blur, kind of like a Holga lens. Click on the image to see a larger version. The whole right side of the picture breaks up in an agreeable sort of way.

Halemaumau

2006-08-03T18:07:00.000-10:00

We had a nice cumulus clouds over the Halemaumau Crater at Volcanoes National Park this last weekend. The yellow streaks on the crater walls are sulphur banks and the fumes are quite strong. Lava enters the ocen about 45 minutes from here from a diffrent vent site at Puu O'o

India Silver Shoot

2006-08-03T15:35:00.000-10:00

This image is from a redesign shoot for indiasilver.com. They have a total "redo" in the works and we were lucky to have Lindy available at the last minute, she's a real pro and a joy to work with. I'll post images here form time to time with no rhyme or reason. Some commercial stuff and some personal stuff.