leoaloha
Profile
I am a single, female, business professional now indulging in photography as a way of relaxing after a busy day. I live in Hawaii and hope to share some of the beauty and unusual that interests me. I am just an amateur and any help/tips are welcome.
On a personal note, I am over the hill, overweight, and sometimes overconfident in my career, but just a fledgling in photography. But I find that it relaxes the stress away and makes me appreciate even the tiniest morcel of nature’s beauty. I live alone with two cats on Oahu for the past 15 years but prior to that I lived in the Carribean, Scotland, and throughout the United States. Enjoyed writing in College, but now hardly get past the idea or title page. Driving seems oddly to stimulate my creative brain, and I think of all these great ideas or phrases to put in some essay or short story about my life, but with no way to write it down. Alas, the story of my life, Almost could’ve been. Oh, well, Now I am here. Perhaps I can finally string together those untitled chapters into something worth reading. Please Help!! So far the RB seems like a great community.
I have a blurb book of many of the images here and more. Flora Fantatica Hawaii at Blurb.com
Hawaii’s Native featured in All About Flowers, Dress Whites.
Good morning featured in Only Orchids. 
Featured in Paws and Claws
Featured in Fungilicious 
Top Ten Fungilicious Brown challenge 
Featured in Feminine Intent
Please read the prose that goes with this one.
Featured in Drive By Shooting
Featured in A Fascinating Purple
Featured in sleeping creatures. 
Top Ten Feature in Sleeping Creatures
Groups
leoaloha is a member of " You Big SOFTY", "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), *A Beautiful Blur, A Fascinating Purple (75% Purple), Abstracts from Nature, All About Flowers, All Out Emotion, All Soft and Cuddlies !!, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Art 4 Charity, Beagle Club, Beginner's Expressions, Benches, Black and White Photography, Blast from the Past, Childhood, Drive By Shooting, Everyday Life, Fabulous Flowers, Feel, Don't Copy, Feminine Intent (LIMIT TWO IMAGES PER DAY), Food for Thought, Fungilicious, If it doesn't belong, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Live, Love, Dream: May you have a Blessed Christmas Season , Macro Untouched. 2 per day only (closed for reno), Moody, Dark, Evocative (no nudes), Olympus and Four Thirds Group, Only Orchids!, Passions, Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, Perspectives, Photo Manipulators, Photography Fun, Simply White Artwork Gallery - 95% White !, Sleeping Creatures , Street Photography and Photojournalism, Tabby Time ~ 3 per day, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The Red Writing Room, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, Unwanted , Abandoned & Saved Through Preservation., Urban Wildlife, Windows and Doors and ≈♥≈The Weekend Photographer≈♥≈.
Journal Entries
Weekend
Posted 3 months ago.
Breast Cancer
Posted 3 months ago, 3 comments so far.
thank yous
Posted 3 months ago.
thursday busy
Posted 3 months ago.
Art
Writing
I Turn My Back
For today I am OLD, / Forgotten and abandoned. / Without love, or feeling.
A Hike
I try to memorize the exact spot where I found the remains of . . . of . . . of what? Passion? Lust? Rape? Intoxication? A simple forgotten shoe? / Short story to go with mushroom pic.
Thank you Only Orchids
Thank you for the feature of Good Morning. I was off island and shocked to find my photo as a feature when there are so many excellent works. I am brand new to RB and relatively new to photography. …
Thank you All about Flowers
Thank you for featuring the white hibiscus, Hawaii’s Native . I was surprised anyone would notice and thrilled that others liked it as much as I.
Mourning
Behind me lay a man I hated, a monster, my father, now dead.
