About Our Gallery-Quality Prints

As the photographer and owner of Hawaiian LandMark Images, I can assure you that combining original film-transparency captures with today's High Resolution Digital scanning and printing technology is allowing us to produce a Fine-Art print that was not even possible just a few years ago. Our tropical prints are the sharpest and most colorful images you will find anywhere today. The detail and clarity of all our prints is simply Outstanding. The days of fuzzy, colorless and flat Large prints are a thing of the past!

In each step of production we use only the finest equipment and materials available today. From capturing the images, to proofing them, scanning, editing and printing, we use only the best that is available and the end result is indeed GALLERY QUALITY.  And we've heard this many times from visitors, art collectors, shop owners, friends, and even other photographers. As the saying goes  —  "Seeing is believing".

In addition to the outstanding quality that goes into every one of our prints, it has been our goal and determination to make these affordable as well. Other prints of visibly lesser quality often sell for two, three, even four times as much as what you will find on this website. We are able to offer a higher-quality product than what many others today can even produce, for actually less, because we always try to purchase in larger quantities. We have carefully selected and then negotiated with the best in the printing industry, to truly offer a one of a kind value. The quality of Fine-Art Prints we offer IS indeed Gallery, the prices however are not. These same modestly priced images available through our website right now are selling in some of Hawaii's nicest galleries today.

We Started one retail store at a time, several years ago. Our Tropical Photography, Giclee, Bookmarkers and  telescope pictures are now displayed in over 100 Art Galleries and Gift Shops throughout the Hawaiian Islands as well as on this website with new products and images coming soon. llerie

If you are searching for the perfect wall-hanging, a tropical gift or a beautiful conversation piece, then we believe you’ll thoroughly enjoy our fine-art photography line.

Colorful Hawaiian Photographs brighten up any room they touch and lift the spirits of those who view them by bringing the beauty of the Hawaiian Islands home to you. People all over the world are naturally drawn to the enchanting, colorful, bright tropical settings such as what you will find in our galleries today.

We do hope you'll appreciate what we have to offer and find a fine-art print, giclee or even a few bookmarkers that you'll enjoy for years to come. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to serve you all!

Many Mahalos for stopping by,

Vincent K. Tylor        

Vincent K. Tylor's  Compositions . . .

are appreciated by nature enthusiasts around the world. We believe that you too will appreciate the vibrancy and visual impact of his photography.

Among his works you’ll find beautiful landscapes, powerful seascapes, warm beaches of a wide array of colors, turquoise lagoons, rich majestic sunsets, peaceful blue skies, breathtaking waterfalls, awe-inspiring lava flows, tropical flowers, island wildlife and much more. Collectively they reflect the rich beauty of this land known as the Hawaiian Islands.  Other images from beautiful locations such as the Pacific Northwest, Shenandoah National Park, Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Washington D.C. Landmarks and others will be soon coming soon.

Web Image Quality vs. Print Quality

To help you select the image that's right for you we strive to showcase our pictures as accurately as can be done on a web page without exceeding reasonable download times. However web page delivery speed comes with visual compromise. The images you see through your browser are from 50 to 200k jpeg files with a 96 dpi rendering. While the images we print come from digital files that are from 40 to 222 megs with a 300 dpi rendering. The much higher resolution, density and color range of our prints cannot even be displayed on even the best high-end graphic workstations, though we do try to get as close as possible.

Our Process Details

What we do to create our prints is very high-end and very discriminating. If you're interested in the technology and TLC that go into creating our gallery quality prints, here are most of what our process entails. 

Vince's Cameras

It all starts with Nikon 35mm SLR film cameras. We do not believe digital is quite there yet, though it appears to be the direction most will end up in the future. The overall quality of film is still better, at this time, in our honest opinion.  We have compared extensively.     

Nikon F5

A professionals camera. Built like a tank. Simply the best in the world!

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An excellent second unit. Smaller and lighter, though takes photos just about as good as the F5.

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A more delicate camera, but took outstanding images.

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VK's Lens

Nikon 17-35mm

f/2.8D ED-IF

AF-S Zoom-Nikkor

Simply the best wide-angle zoom lens in the world! Used for most all landscapes. My bread and butter lens today.

Nikon 28-70mm

f/2.8D ED-IF

AF-S Zoom-Nikkor

An extremely diverse lens. Superb lens quality. Perfect for Fall foliage, landscape and portrait shooting.

Nikon 80-200mm

f/2.8D ED-IF

AF-S Zoom-Nikkor

Perhaps the sharpest lens of them all. Used for wildlife, floral, portraits and other specific landscape images.

Tamron 28-200mm

F3.8-5.6 for Nikon

Now retired. Some of my best work was captured with this extremely versatile workhorse.

VK's Film

Fujichrome Provia 100F)

Fujichrome Velvia 50

This is the film we use to capture most all of our gallery images. Simply nothing better out there anywhere, and what digital cameras need to aim for, and have yet to match!

Our Scanner is now the Creo-Kodak EverSmart Supreme II

We currently own and use the newest Eversmart Supreme II. Simply put; one of the best scanners anywhere in the world. National Geographic uses two of the older  versions today. As of 2008 we now have the latest and best.

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we use it to print our 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 and 16x20 photos. It's built around a revolutionary CCD line scanner, proprietary image-enhancement technologies and a sophisticated laser exposure system.

Our Large Format Printer is a "LightJet 5001"

This produces our 16"x24"   20"x30"   and   24"x36"  Prints.

Its R-G-B lasers are the most precise exposure devices available and they're capable of producing 68 billion colors. When you see what it puts out, you just can't believe how much detail exists in the film.

It has long been considered the finest color photographic paper available and is the overwhelming choice of professional photographers and commercial labs when they are presenting their best work.

It’s a resin-based paper that enjoys the highest rating for image longevity of all the photographic papers made today.  

According to accelerated fade rate testing conducted by Wilhelm Imaging Research Fuji Crystal Archive™ paper has a display life of 60 years, compared to 29 years for Ilfochrome and 16 years for Ektacolor prints. These tests are based on standard indoor display conditions of 450 lux of glass filtered fluorescent light for 12 hours per day.

The End Result Is Extraordinary . . .

Having found the absolute best processes today as well access to using the best equipment is only half the challenge in producing gallery quality prints; the other half is having the equipment operated by skilled people who know how to get the most out of it and who know and respect your art.

To that end we have engaged several carefully selected labs, with dedicated, talented, knowledgeable staff; and with these we produce faithful reproductions of visual moments in time that we believe you'll deeply appreciate for years to come!

            We sincerely believe you'll enjoy the results!