This week’s Friday Five is brought to you by my Dad and his love for photographing the Hawaiian Sunset. You see every year my parents leave the cold and blustery Australian winter and head over to enjoy 6 solid weeks of sunshine in Hawaii. I KNOW. I can’t wait to be retired either!
Anyway, because Dad doesn’t like people to feel left out when he goes away, he sends myself and my sister in law a delightful email every day of the Hawaiian Sunset. Talk about thoughtful! I mean, who doesn’t love waking up to yet another photo of a tropical sunset when they’re on the other side of the world, enjoying sub zero temperatures?! Well ok, I live in Brisbane, so I’m not exactly going to be building a snowman in my front yard anytime soon, but I am wearing ugg boots and a scarf while typing this, so you know, IT’S COLD.
So today, because sharing is caring and I’m thoughtful like that, I thought I’d share a few of the 4,982* sunset photos I’ve received in recent weeks. So here we go with this week’s Friday Five: Hawaiian Sunset Edition. Enjoy!
*may be a slight exaggeration.
Hawaiian Sunset Number 1:
Very nice. Looks like we’re off to a cracker of a start!
Hawaiian Sunset Number 2:
Now this one was sent through to me on Day 6. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a delightful snap, but to be honest, it looked remarkably like the other 5 I’d already received. So when I replied to Dad’s email, I politely suggested he might like to work on his creativity a little bit more. Which, was a fatal error on my part, because just look at what came through the following day…
Hawaiian Sunset Number 3: A Montage
I knew I was in sunset trouble when I received an email that night with the subject line ‘Great night for a sunset. Stand by.’ So you can imagine by delight when I then received not one, not two, but THREE beautiful shots of the sunset, taken over a period of about 10 minutes. Or one standard drink. Fabulous! But wait, there’s more…
Hawaiian Sunset Number 4: The Wine Glass
By Day 7, Dad was really getting into the swing of things and shot through this lovely image of the sunset THROUGH A WINE GLASS. I mean, really?! Is there no end to his talent?!
Hawaiian Sunset Number 5: The Hoop
Well would you look at that?! The wine glass has been replaced with The Hoop. All jokes aside, that is actually a cracker of a shot, but it does raise a couple of questions. Firstly, I hope Dad’s bung knee held up alright while he was bending down to take the shot and secondly, how the hell did he manage to get the apple logo to reflect on the balcony railing like that?!
So there we have it. Are you feeling my Hawaiian Sunset pain yet?! Although, I must say that this week’s sunsets have been a bit sporadic and when the folks face timed me the other day I asked them what’s the go with the MIA sunset emails? Mum replied that it’s happy hour at the yacht club between 5 and 6 every night, so they a very important decision to make….stay in their hotel room and take a balcony sunset shot or head down to the yacht club for $4 cocktails. No prizes for guessing which option won out this week!!
Do you have family or friends that taunt you with holiday snaps? And what exactly do you do with them all?
Leave a Reply