Four Seasons Wailea, Maui, HI - Spending a decade of your career in one of the most beautiful places in the world can result in of the most amazing photos. Hawaii has so much to capture, almost too much to capture in just one life time. Cameron Nelson's galleries of work from his time spent here are breathtaking - finding nature at its finest moments to let everyone enjoy. 

Cameron himself has had an interesting career span that I found out after talking to him about his works. Cameron was first a wedding photographer in Southern California. He worked that angle, along with other portraiture photography for 7 years but could not handle the fast paced, hours of traffic that you get with thirty million people in such a confined area. Cameron decided to leave and headed to South Africa to shoot fashion photography while still being able to follow up on his passion of surfing that he had come to love in Southern California. Cameron eventually met his wife in South Africa and they made the move just over a decade ago to Hawaii to shoot the beautiful landscapes and nature creatures that are so prevalent there. He loved the more relaxed and calming peace that Hawaii can bring to a person and that definitely shows in his works that he displays in his mobile galleries throughout the islands. 

The feeling of being more relaxed when shooting your work gives him the ability to create works of art that make you think: "oh that looks fake!" because it just doesn't seem real to be able to find these perfect locations for the subjects of the photos. Cameron does great work of ensuring the proper color of the locations he visits is perfectly represented in his printed images. Works such as his "Paradise Found _ Maui" have the perfect amount of clarity from front to back, keeping his highlights and shadows in check and the color as exactly as you would see. The work presented in this gallery were all from Hawaii and include a broad range of what is there on the island.  

The compositions of his pieces of art also make for a desire to want more. You might already look through his galleries online and realize that you just cannot get enough. The is the pull Cameron has with his work - already able to capture the images we want and desiring more that we think Hawaii can offer to us. His quality of equipment and huge found knowledge of the art, has allowed him to truly find those special moments we think of when one envisions Hawaii. 

I did have a tendency to get enveloped into Cameron’s work and that is why I enjoyed this gallery set up. It was laid out in a casual format at the hotel, very inviting and flows well to still have a professional feel for a Hawaiian photographer. I was impressed with his exposures and compositions, the foam water images on the beach however did not impress me. They were done technically correct but I found them basic, un-moving.

His mobile gallery set-ups can be found at the Four Seasons' Resort in Wailea on Saturdays from 8:00-1:30 and at the Gran Wailea Resort in Wailea on Wednesdays from 8:00-2:00. You can contact Cameron Nelson Fine Art Photography at 808-974-8183 or order and browse his galleries at www.cameronnelsongallery.com.  

[Above is Kenyan Coffee]
[Below is Droidiga]

I haven't been one for messing with fonts too much in my works. When I do however need to find a new font or just something different that what some computers have, I go to dafont.com. It seems to have something there for me when I am in search of a new font. Based off my previous statements, because I don't have a huge desire to find some crazy fonts, I am more of a simplistic guy in all of my work and life. I like to keep things in my life 'clean and simple' so I have always been drawn towards san serif fonts because serifs are easier to read for long lines of text, I don't find interest in those because I am never writing blocks of text to be published. 

The two typefaces that caught my attention on dafont.com were Kenyan Coffee and Droidiga. Both of these typefaces have a heavy weighting.  It also happens to be that they both don't have a huge gap between their meanline and cap height. The reason I point these two things out is because as I said before, I like 'clean and simple.' Since the weight is heavy, it doesn't allow for a lot of little serifs here and there and that is why I like these typefaces: the characteristics of each letter that distinguish from the others is all there is present in Kenyan Coffee and Droidiga. Both typefaces are quite basic in nature. Droidiga does have a slightly looser tracking than Kenyan Coffee, but Kenyan Coffee's tracking isn't so much closer that it is obnoxious to read. 

Though Droidiga has a few strange letters in its typeface, I still don't think the oddity of them takes away from being clean and simple. It appears to still use straight lines to just add to the essence of that letter to give it a different 'feel' if you will. This does limit this font to some specific uses however.