In 1989 I went to Tahiti for the first time specifically to shoot for my stock photo agency. This was long before we had drones, and I wanted to get some aerials of the two most famous islands, Bora Bora and Moorea. In the early days of being in a stock agency, I learned that any investment I made would usually come back to me several times over assuming my images reflected marketable concepts. The plane I hired had to fly from a neighboring island to pick me up, and that added to my cost. But this shot alone made the expense worth it. This is Bora Bora, and I captured the beautiful scene with a Mamiya 7 medium format film camera, a 43mm lens which was equivalent to a 21mm lens in the full frame digital format, and a polarizer.
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