July 3rd Holiday River Concert Attracts a Huge Crowd

The crowd seems to get bigger every year! 

 I really enjoyed hearing some favorite popular music from backstage.  What a treat!

The sky was overcast and therefore fairly cool and pleasant.  I took advantage of the light and photographed from backstage earlier than normal, without the bright sunshine in the background.

Jeffrey Silberschlag and soloist Lawrence Feldman had some fun taking a selfie in front of the crowd.

Mr. Feldman, saxophonist, has worked with the Saturday Night Live Band, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and many more.

Heather Haughn, violinist, volunteered to sing a few lines and did an excellent job.

Fireworks Finale with "1812 Overture"

Calvert County Times Cover Photo July 2, 2015

I learned today that a second fireworks photo was published on the cover of the Calvert County Times.  The St. Mary's County Times is connected with to the other newspaper more closely than I thought.  I was hoping to maybe have one picture published, not two!  If any of you folks from Calvert have a copy, please save it for me.

Here is the current link to the issue.

http://countytimes.somd.com/read/calvert.php

County Times Cover July 2nd 2015

If you get a chance, take a look at the cover of today's County Times in St. Mary's County.  My fireworks picture from a previous River Concert is on the cover.

River Concert Friday June 26th, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Nathaniel Silberschlag was the star performer on horn, a very talented 16 year old.  Actually his whole family is very talented!  He played the solo part in Mozart's Concerto number 4 for Horn and did a superb job for the Chesapeake Orchestra.  I am looking forward to the Friday July 3rd concert, "Superman, Sousa, Saturday Night Live".

       Nathaniel Silberschlag

       Nice tux!

      Maestro Jeffrey Silberschlag cueing 

       Nate

        Good job!

    Zach Silberschlag on trumpet (right)

    Photographed from backstage

      Nice sunset

      Violins

      Jose Cueto, Concertmaster 1st Violin

       The Chesapeake Orchestra

River Concert June 19th, 2015

I am once again the official photographer for the River Concert Series at the St. Mary's College of Maryland.  We enjoyed the concert last Friday night very much.  

        Jeffrey Silberschlag, Music Director 

We attended the Arts Alliance reception before the concert and ate lots of good munchies.

       Arts Alliance

 Yevgeny Kutik's performance  in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in  E Minor, Op. 64 was absolutely brilliant.  The violin part is a very expressive, full of emotion and quite difficult.

       Yevgeny Kutik

The orchestra shell was lit from inside by magenta filters, which I couldn't resist photographing.

It was great to see the Chesapeake Orchestra once again and we enjoyed talking with some of them and their supporters after the concert.

     Hillary Howard, Pres. Chesapeake  Orchestra Board of Directors

We are looking forward to hearing Nathaniel Silberschlag in Mozart's Concerto number 4 on Friday night, June 26th.

That's Nathaniel on horn, 2nd from the left, next to his brother, Zach, from last week's concert.

May 18-19: Lahaina Maui

I watched the sunrise at the Makai Inn.

        Sunrise view from Makai Inn    

         includes The island of Lanai

       Sunrise at Makai Inn, Moloka'i island

        In the background

We drove north and stopped at 3 beaches.  The 1st beach had big turtles.

      Pohaku Park

 The 2nd was D T Fleming beach: good   

   for swimming.  The coarse sand 

    was not too pretty. 

We ate lunch on a bluff by a restaurant at Kapalua beach- very pretty snorkel and kayak beach. 

      Kapalua beach

       Kapalua beach closeup

We took the Atlantis submarine at 2pm, lots of blue ocean, the sunken Carthaginian ship and fish, moray eels,  and sharks.

      Sub rising

       Watching a fish

       The Carthaginian.  An artificial reef.  We have old photos of it in the Lahaina harbor.

      The Atlantis sub

      Pink plumeria in Lahaina

At 6 pm we went to the OId Lahaina Luau.  Good food, service and entertainment.  The show told the story of hawaiian myths and ended with Prince Kuhio, Princess Liliokulani and statehood.

5/19 tues;  Going home

Ukumehame beach on the way to the airport, east of Lahaina

May 17th Moloka'i to Lahaina , Maui

In the morning, we drove to Halawa and Puko'o beaches again to look for Jim's missing cane and found nothing.

         Halawa beach

      Halawa valley

      Puko'o beach with Outrigger canoe

  On the way back we stopped at Sandy and Murphy beaches.

      Sandy beach.  Yes, that is really its'

       name.

       Murphy beach

We drove the entire length of Moloka'i, our original planned destination to see the West end beaches.  At Kepuhi beach, we watched surfers in the wind with huge waves, while we ate a picnic lunch.

       Kepuhi beach

      Kepuhi beach surfer

We took the ferry at 4pm from the Kauankakai wharf.

The water was rough, but a ferry worker said it was very boring ride.

The taxi ride to the Makai Inn was hindered by a Vietnamese driver who didnt know where it was located.  I showed him a map!   

The Inn has some lovely Hawaiian art, a pretty garden lit by colored lights, a seawall, limited hot water, no  tv or phone and is quite worn.

We had a lovely sunset from the Makai Inn before going out.

      Makai Inn sunset

We had dinner at Bubba Gumps after buying a cane for Jim.  Jim loves the shrimp dishes there.  Lots of 60's and 70's loud music.  The food was good.