Here is my narrative describing our trip to/from Hawai‘i, although it wasn't a Country Walkers expedition. I've linked the corresponding pages from Jonathan's website so that folks can jump back and forth between them.
The background on the webpages for this trip is the a carpet of koa leaves on the forest floor in the kīpuka rainforest on the slopes of Mauna Loa. I've taken the liberty of altering the color, but not the pattern, to match the color scheme of this site.
I've used the site Hawaiian Plants and Tropical Flowers to identify a lot of the plants we saw. The site is very nicely organized and has a companion site for animals, Wildlife of Hawaii (includes birds).
The images on the site, unless otherwise noted, were taken either using an Olympus C8080 Zoom (3264x2448 pixel JPEGs), an Olympus Stylus 790 SW (3072x2304), or an iPhone 4S (3264x2448). I occasionally had a circular polarizing filter installed on the C8080 depending on the light. The image size of the resulting JPEGs are about 3.5 MB each. I burned the unedited version of all images onto a DVD before editing them.
I took a total of 952 images (ones that didn't get deleted on the spot for being too fuzzy) over 11 days - no snaps on March 12. I've weeded through them and put a selection of them on each day's pages.
Also because the 790SW has an incredibly short focal length available, most of the flower close ups were shot with that camera. Also, on the rainy days, I used the 790SW camera as it is waterproof; and being pocket-sized, it was also used at dinner and traveling when I didn't want to pull out the big camera. It's obvious that this was the camera I used while snorkeling on the 8th.
On this site, I've whittled the image size down to two sizes - a thumbnail I use on the page for the day, and a 640x480 pixel (or 480x640 pixel, assuming I haven't cropped or altered the size) image that I've saved optimized for web usage.
