Nikon D810, 1/40 sec, f/10, 75mm, ISO 200

When flying to Maui from the mainland, I like to spend the first two nights close to the airport. Our first choice is The Inn at Mama’s Fish House. It is an easy and scenic 20 minute drive from Kahului airport. The Inn is a good jumping off point to visit Haleakalā National Park for sunrise the day after you arrive in Maui, and a great place to recover from jet lag on day two. After that, we move on to our longer term lodging.

The flower wall above surrounds one end of the Inn’s parking lot. There are many more flower pots on the wall, but there were also a lot of distractions like palm leaves, cars, and shrubbery. Unable to capture the entire wall, I choose to focus on one small section.

I knew I did not have the depth-of-field to get both flower pots in focus, so I took two images, one focused on each pot, and tried to focus stack them in Photoshop. Unfortunately, I did this without my tripod, and the two images did not line up exactly. This result in ghosting around the front flower pot. Oh well, close but no cigar…

The Inn at Mama’s Fish House: 20.928988° -156.367016°