After a mandatory 14-day quarantine due to COVID-19, tourists stop coming to Hawaii.
Read MoreA man walks Waikiki Beach wearing a surgical mask.
A sign posted at a local drug store not far away from Honolulu’s Chinatown taken February 19, 2020.
Corona Virus Hawaii
The spread of the corona virus in Hawaii and life during this time.
Read MoreFriday Night Lights OUT!
What I thought would be a typical Friday Night Lights, rather Saturday Night Lights college football game turned into something more exciting, and painful.
Last Saturday at the Western Carolina Hawaii game, an unexpected force crashed into my 400mm lens thrusting my camera straight into my face. The massive blow tore my forehead open and cost me a trip to the ER. Luckily, the cut, although deep, was relatively small and required no stitches but the doctor glued my wound shut with Dermabond.
Read MoreHula dancer outtakes for the cover of Celebrated Life
As I said in my last blog, sometimes the photographer doesn’t always get his favorite images chosen as a publication will see great differences in what is eventually chosen. It is clearly the nature of photography…the endless battles between an editor and the artist.
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US President Barack Obama waves at he exits Air Force One In Honolulu.
Obama’s Final Hawaii Holiday Vacation
Friday marked the start and the end of US President Barack Obama’s annual Hawaii vacation. After eight years of his headlining holiday visits, Hawaii’s favorite son will no longer return to his million-dollar rental home on the east shores of Oahu, at least not as President of the United States. The ending of his two terms in office also brings an end to this unique time of Hawaii history, where the D.C. limelight merged with the Island’s aloha culture.
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USS Arizona Survivor John Anderson lost his twin brother during the Pearl Harbor attack. Copyright Marco Garcia 2011.
Pearl Harbor survivor united with twin
For the better part of a decade, I’ve had the honor of creating portraits of Pearl Harbor survivors with some of the images published by The Smithsonian a few years ago. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on the sleeping American naval fleet. The attack pushed the Americans into a costly yet decisive Pacific war that took countless lives.
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