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Road to the Veggie Farm Day 17
Road to the Veggie Farm Day 17
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Camera: Olympus E-510
Lens: Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
Location: Moloa`a, HI - Kaua`i
Date: Jan 17, 2008
Aperture: f:8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jan 17, 2008

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 This is one of the little farm roads in Moloa`a where I pick up my veggies from my friend Marie. Yes the road is that tilted and a month ago it was just mowed down to make a new road. Kaua`i really does have red dirt and the color here is quite accurate. Here is a story regarding Red Dirt Shirts.

Ultimate Kauai Souvenir: The Red Dirt Shirt -- If you are looking for an inexpensive, easy-to-pack souvenir of your trip to Kauai or gifts for all the friends and relatives back home, check out the Red Dirt Shirt. Every T-shirt is hand-dyed and unique. The shirts were the result of a bad situation turned into a positive one. The "legend" is that Paradise Sportswear, in Waimea (tel. 808/335-5670; www.dirtshirt.com), lost the roof of their warehouse during Hurricane Iniki in 1992. After the storm passed, employees returned to the building to find all their T-shirts covered with Kauai's red soil. Before throwing out their entire inventory as "too soiled to sell," someone had an idea??sell the shirts as a Kauai "Red Dirt Shirt." The grunge look was just starting to be popular. Unbelievable as it is, people took to these "dirt" shirts. Fast-forward a dozen years and the shirts have numerous outlets on Kauai.

'There's also an interesting story behind how these T-shirts are dyed. Paradise Sportswear is a true community effort. They employ families who, due to family or disability challenges, prefer to work from home. Their employees take ordinary white T-shirts home and dye the shirts in vats with red dirt collected from valleys on Kauai where centuries of erosion have concentrated red iron oxide into the dirt. It's this red iron oxide that is used in the tinting agent, along with some other organic compounds to the dye solution, that ensure that your dirt shirt will keep its red-dirt color.'

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 01/21/2008 09:44:31 PM
great contrast between the grass and dirt
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
OM System 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO M.Zuiko Digital ED
 01/19/2008 02:10:25 PM
it looks like a beautiful place to live .. :)
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 01/19/2008 09:00:04 AM
Ah, you should have explained about that Kauai red dirt. It looks so beautiful against the green.
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 01/18/2008 06:46:07 PM
What a nice road
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SiPix Blink
 01/18/2008 03:19:02 PM
The road looks almost hidden. I like the soft effect of the top of the grass on the left.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 01/18/2008 02:33:47 PM
The shot made me feel like I was entering into a secret and well hidden farm. Nice job.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 01/18/2008 09:29:16 AM
You pick your own veggies?! Yet another reason to be jealous of where you live!
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Nikon D7000
Nikon MF 50mm f/1.4
 01/18/2008 12:31:15 AM
That is very rich looking soil. I love roads like this one. The sky is sort of blah, but the rest of this shot is sweet. I see that you have Johnson grass out there too. That stuff is awful. : P
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