Today is December 7th, and it is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As President Roosevelt said, a 'Date that will live in infamy.' I haven't been to Hawaii for a long time, but I took this shot in 1982 of Kalalau Beach on the Na Pali Coast of Kauai. I would have been using Kodak Ektachrome 64 transparency film at the time, and I was shooting with my first medium format camera, the Mamiya RB 67. My settings weren't recorded, but they were probably 1/400, f/5.6, and 64 ISO. Remember, back then you had get the film developed before you could see the results. In other words, you really had to know what you were doing! I had hired a small plane to do aerials of what I consider to be the most beautiful coastline in the world. What an incredible trauma it must have been for the people in 1941 to have a paradise like this turned into hell on that fateful day.
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