LAVA FLOW

BY BRAD WATANABE

The process of creating something from scratch is often long and difficult, but the results can be infinitely rewarding. (This image is a still frame from Berad Studio’s documentary Refined By Fire.)

On the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn. —Edmund Burke

Brad Watanabe is the owner of Hawaii-based video production company Berad Studio (beradstudio.com) and the founder of the photo/video production community/blog HawaiiShoots.com.