Thinking of Red

It is worth trying the green channel, too. This will give lighter foliage (but not as light as Infra-Red). Red and blue give dark foliage, because chlorophyll absorbs these colours.

Combinations of red and green will give the equivalent of yellow and orange filters on film.

maybe you should try a wireless remote for releasing the camera, the pressure point is much weaker and needs less force.
Even the cable release needs less force I think.
Sorry to hear about it.

That is fine thanks Stan, I do have a remote & use it, But that requires a tripod too.
So it is six of one & half a dozen of the other ;-)
Col

Rick, looked through these yet again today, and very much liking many, on their individual terms.

• the first image removes the expectation in green beauty, to give a much more real access to a Hawaiian farm.

• you can much more easily see what the story is in the pair Almost Eddie and Eddie Aikau.

First, the one person against that truly giant wave. Then the relative scale of the followers' task. Then the waves themselves, the windswept spume, the sense of place and being in the action. It's a quite different visual progress than with color. Less overwhelming, and thus the chance for layers of attention to come.

• Mauna Kea. Here the sense of time, nostalgia, the meanings photographs in life have long had before punch and surface came to have such over-weighting in results. The quieting for attention mentioned already has its part. I think that the smooth yet not so delicate edges have an effect here. Considering both Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson, film and developer effects may not have been entirely unintended, because their results give the image its precise effect. Same then here.

I guess the rest will be covered by these thoughts, if they turn out useful, but I enjoyed them all. A fresh breath, but more than that, something to further explore.

Cheers, Rick,
Clive