Flying toward Honokōhau Falls with the helicopter doors off is hard to forget.
What surprised me most wasn't just the height of the waterfall.
It was everything around it.
From below, a waterfall like this tends to dominate the whole experience. From the air, I could move across the cliff face and suddenly see where the water was traveling through this enormous amount of rock and vegetation.
The falls became one part of the mountain rather than the entire subject.
That's what I wanted the photograph to keep.
From across the room, your eye goes right to the white line of water.
Then get closer.
Rock begins separating. Vegetation appears on slopes that look almost impossible to hold onto. Smaller structures inside the cliff start becoming as interesting as the waterfall itself.
I went up there expecting to photograph water.
I came back fascinated by the mountain carrying it.
The waterfall is only one line inside the mountain.
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A Maui photographic artist engineering experiences that become more compelling as they become physically enormous.
extreme resolution + multi-frame construction + unusual access + immersive physical scale + experimentation with abstraction.
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Skyward Spectacular was photographed from a doors-off helicopter at Honokōhau Falls in the West Maui Mountains. From below, a waterfall of this scale is experienced primarily through height. From the air, the camera can move toward the upper cascade and look across the face of the cliffs, revealing where the water emerges, how it cuts into the terrain and how vegetation occupies the steep rock around it.
The aerial viewpoint makes the mountain as important as the falling water. Only part of the larger waterfall system is contained inside the frame, so the surrounding cliff becomes a reference for scale. Lance Ehrecke’s high-resolution source preserves fine information in water, rock and vegetation throughout the vertical composition. When the photograph is enlarged, smaller structures begin separating from what initially reads as one dramatic white drop, and the image becomes increasingly about the terrain the water is moving through.
Skyward Spectacular is offered as an open edition photographic artwork and produced to order. Current presentation choices include Acrylic, Aluminum and Canvas, with available sizes and framing shown in the configurator. Compare presentation options before selecting the finished object. The vertical orientation reinforces the drop while still allowing the surrounding mountain structure to remain essential to the image.
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YOUR SELECTION Acrylic · 40" x 60" · Unframed
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Float frame in Black, Natural, or White: 0.6 in wide and 1 in deep, with a 0.27 in reveal between the image and the frame.
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Skyward Spectacular was photographed from a doors-off helicopter at Honokōhau Falls in the West Maui Mountains. From below, a waterfall of this scale is experienced primarily through height. From the air, the camera can move toward the upper cascade and look across the face of the cliffs, revealing where the water emerges, how it cuts into the terrain and how vegetation occupies the steep rock around it.
The aerial viewpoint makes the mountain as important as the falling water. Only part of the larger waterfall system is contained inside the frame, so the surrounding cliff becomes a reference for scale. Lance Ehrecke’s high-resolution source preserves fine information in water, rock and vegetation throughout the vertical composition. When the photograph is enlarged, smaller structures begin separating from what initially reads as one dramatic white drop, and the image becomes increasingly about the terrain the water is moving through.
Skyward Spectacular is offered as an open edition photographic artwork and produced to order. Current presentation choices include Acrylic, Aluminum and Canvas, with available sizes and framing shown in the configurator. Compare presentation options before selecting the finished object. The vertical orientation reinforces the drop while still allowing the surrounding mountain structure to remain essential to the image.
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