Smell of Plumeria with Red Dirt

These kids have grown. The Waialua Sugar Mill is now an industrial park.  I took hundreds of black and white slides in a photography class that I took with Gaye Chan at the University of Hawaii while a grad student.

Keiki, Mt. Kaala & Clouds
©2012NanciHersh

 Here is one of many shots I took of my neighborhood kids, lined up with the majestic Waiane Mountain Range and  clouds in the distance in this double exposure print.  I can smell the plumeria... and the red dirt.

Ranch Camp Girl in Light

This was one of a few images that I took of Mr. Santiago's granddaughter. I think her name was Crystal. 

She lived behind me and when I saw her I would run and get my camera.  She had a striking face... I can only imagine what she looks like now, 20 years later.

Girl in the Light
©2012NanciHersh
Ranch Camp Series

You can't see her face in this shot, but I loved the light coming through and behind her.  This is a double exposure from a black and white slide I took for my Ranch Camp Series.  I did a large drawing of this image with charoal and also a lithograph that was purchased by curator James Jensen for The Contemporary Museum collection just before I left Hawaii.   TCM has now merged with The Honolu Academy of Arts- looking forward to see what's new and what hasn't changed much when we go visit next month!

Dangerous Current

Some things just "title themselves", and somethings just fall into place. Perfectly.

Dangerous Current
from Ranch Camp Revisited Series
©2012NanciHersh

This is a double exposure shot I took on a big surf day out at Haleiwa Beach Park, one of my favorite places to surf- on MUCH smaller days (!) with an image of the Waialua Sugar Mill
back when it was a sugar mill, and not a shopping destination.

Originally taken as a black and white slide, I love how the two line up- just like that perfect wave, with an ominous warning to keep in mind.

Ranch Camp Revisited- Remembering Lamb

From 1992-94, I took hundreds of black and white slides of my community while I was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii living in a small home I had purchased and renovated in Ranch Camp, old plantation neighborhood located at the base of the Waianae Mountain range in Waialua, Hawaii. 

Lamb in my Front Yard
No Surf in Sight
©2012NanciHersh

The sugar mill has since been shut down and is now an industrial park for the North Shore with surf board shops and mom and pop enterprises.   Many of you may remember Lambchop- my "famous" surfing rabbit....  here - as a double exposure, he is on top of his cage out in my front yard with a plumeria tree and the moutains in the distance.

Rediscovering these images is like a wonderful treasure hunt - and one I will be sharing on this blog as I have them scanned into jpgs.