Thanks for looking, Bob. Your comment interests me. I'm not certain what you expect a Polynesian in Hawaii to look like. Native Hawaiians are quite different from the Polynesians of other island groups. Except fro recent immigrants from Tonga or Samoa, there are very few full-blooded Polynesians in Hawaiian, since the races have intermarried there perhaps more freely than anywhere else on earth. The first two European settlers, sailors who stayed behind after Captain Cook's ships sailed away, immediately married native Hawaiians. Almost all the children of the American missionaries in the early 1800s did the same. As George Clooney's character noted in The Descendants, almost all the prominent Haole (white) families have native Hawaiian ancestors, and most islanders who consider themselves Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian have Haole, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese or Filipino blood in their veins as well. The typical Hawaiian is a mixed breed these days, and most Hawaiians are very proud of that.
My image was taken during a stage show. As I look at it now, I can see that there was quite a bit of blue lighting in that image. Perhaps she looks a bit more like you would expect under more neutral lighting, as here: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16998415 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan, > Reminds me a bit of Dorothy Lamore and the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby films. > Not exactly the Polynesian dancer I expected from Hawaii. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16998416 >> >> Comments, Criticisms and Suggestions are invited. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
