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There is no place more romantic than a moonlit Maui beach or tropical waterfall. If you went after 10pm you could always have the place to yourselves when these photos were taken. We would go skinny dipping or make love on the beach under the stars all the time. Early in my moonlight photo experiments, I discovered that because the moonlight exposures took minutes, you could vary the density of objects in the image by moving them in or out at different times during the exposure. This included people. I could just have someone walk out unseen during the exposure. This gave a great dream like effect. So, I began putting girls that were with me on my moonlight shoots in the photos. I learned how to use fill flash and other light sources, even a blow torch, to freeze the girls in the image. None of the photos in this chapter are double exposures or photo manipulations. This was bleeding edge photography that no one else was doing. It was always a surprising thrill to see the moonlight images for the first time. The photos for moondance were taken over many years. They usually have a theme, sometimes we used costumes and other times got naked. It was real fun bringing my moonlight fantasies to life, though I was not always romantically involved with the models. Still, there is nothing like hanging in the moonlight with beautiful girls on a tropical Maui night. You can find additional night photos at mauitales.com.