I’m in the air on an American Airlines flight about to embark on another travel series, this time from 2022. I’ve been doing shorter-than-usual series lately—first from Colorado and then from San Antonio. We are off to Hawaii again, a place I’ve visited several times. But I’m doing something different photographically.

I’m lucky enough to go to Honolulu every other year, generally in the summer. I couldn’t go in 2020 because of COVID and delayed that trip to 2021, which I’ve already blogged about. Getting back on my usual schedule of visits on even years, I went again in 2022.

Going to Hawaii has always been fantastic, but I got bored photographically. I usually go to the same spots and want to do something different. On a lark, about a week before the trip, I thought of a fisheye lens. TTartisan makes an inexpensive one for the Fujifilm GFX, and I jumped at the chance. You’re going to see a lot of fisheyes in this series. I hope you like them.

The super-wide nature of the fisheye lens allowed me to frame the entire window with an extra margin on the sides while sitting in the window seat. While distorting the window somewhat, it doesn’t look like a classic fisheye from this perspective. I like the portal effect to the outside world flying thousands of feet over the western United States on the way to my first destination—Los Angeles.

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