Proving that a man on a Maui vacation armed with a Flip Video and a You Tube account is an formidable cinemagraphic force, here are the final four videos in my 2008 Hawaiian Island oeuvre.
These follow my preceding works of tourist art: “Maui beach people: beautiful or not?“, “Video tour of Kapalua zipline course” and “Having a whale of a good time on a Maui cruise.”
Serious students of Flip Videography (assuming there are any) may notice an evolution in my style during our ten days on Maui. Myself, I can’t. But often an artist can’t recognize his own genius.
In “Maui’s Lahaina Stables sunset ride” I explore the island’s yin and yang: marvelous natural beauty coupled with increasingly annoying over-development. On my horse I walk (and jerkily trot) up to the lower reaches of a mystical West Maui mountain valley, pondering what Shangri La lies beyond our two-hour ride’s reaches.
Shifting gears, a lot, to “Maui shopping in Wailea,” I document my humble husbandly shopping demeanor: five steps behind Laurel, who rules the store browsing roost. My camera lingers on a shapely black-clad shopper (or more likely, store employee) who I would have followed more closely if not for a fear of “Security! I’m being stalked!”
“Snorkeling on Maui” actually is my wife’s video creation. It features no narration, mostly because it isn’t possible to talk with a snorkel in your mouth. This was filmed with the Flip Video underwater case. Laurel used no artificial fish food aids in filming her snorkeling on Napili and Kapalua Bays. Hence, the natural number of fish.
My final video, “Maui’s Banyan Tree and Napili Bay,” melds a stroll under a notable Lahaina attraction and a view of one of Maui’s most beautiful beaches. The viewer is treated to a massive display of bird chirping at dusk and a cogent explanation of how we have managed to do a lot of Maui moving while vacationing on the same beach for 20 years.
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