Post #603640 by TikiTomD on Tue, Aug 23, 2011 3:40 PM

Aloha, Chris (Tiki 65). Glad you could stop by. Mahalo for those awesome Cannibal Trio Lamps – they’ve already elicited a lot of interest and kudos from my visitors.

TikiHardBop, I’m not sure that this is an issue of photographic resolution. You’ve likely been down in the Storm Shelter making those spirit potions again. A few of those and the vision tends to cloud over. However, I’m pretty sure that you’re correct... there seems to be a rather unsteady figure amongst the palm trees of the mural, holding firmly onto both mug and tree trunk. Don’t let go of either! Best regards to TornadoTiki.

On Sunday afternoon, Don Bok dropped by to take some photos of mural and Blowfish Bar. He’s a semi-retired professional photographer who was on the photography staff of Daytona International Speedway for 44 years. At well over six feet tall, he made me feel severely height impaired. His camera also dwarfed my little Canon PowerShot. Don is the nicest gentleman you could ever hope to meet. He’s also into plants, so he and my wife, Pat, established an immediate rapport, with promises to exchange Plumeria (aka Frangipani) cuttings. The flowers are used to make leis in Polynesia.

Here’s a photo of Don, the professional photographer with his giant Canon, taken by me, the amateur using my little Canon...

Don emailed me a couple of quick-look low resolution samples from his visit, with a full CD to follow later this week after he had time to do a bit of digital processing. One of those included Tango, best dog, general proprietor and couch potato of the moment...

Here’s a wide view sample that captures bar and mural...

And another of mural alone...

Then of great room with mural...

Finally of bar alone...

-Tom