This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Finding Gratitude, Giving Thanks.’ See more responses here.
At my age, waking up and seeing the sunrise is something to be grateful for!
Mauna Kea around sunrise
Category Archives: Photo Challenges
Brown in Hawaii
This month’s Sunday Stills Color Challenge is ‘Brown.’ See more responses here.
I’ve gone for a selection of animals, mostly. Captions on the photos as usual.
Tropical leaves
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Leaves, Autumn or Spring.’ See more responses here. Here are some leaves from Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden with captions on the photos.
It’s frightful, it’s delightful
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Frightful.’ See more responses here.
There’s a well-known brand of paper tissue that sells it’s products in cardboard boxes sporting a wide variety of designs, some more pleasing than others. Costco carries these items and currently sells a line that could be called colorful or garish, depending on ones tastes.
The top photo shows the end of one of these boxes. It features owls, which I love, but there’s something truly frightful in this image. I don’t know whether it’s the blood-tinged background colors or the bizarre purple owls from another dimension, and their dull black, vacant, staring eyes. I do know this isn’t what I want to see when I walk in the bathroom. So I’ve stopped buying from Costco until they get a less scary set of designs in.
The second photo is frightful in a fun, Halloweeny kind of way. I was picking up bread from the Sandwich Isle Bread Company in Waimea, when I saw these ”Mummy” Vanilla Choco Eclairs. Well, I couldn’t possibly pass them up, could I? They have several other Halloween-themed treats and they not only look fabulous, but always taste great.
You gotta laugh
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Comics or Funny Pages (aka silly or funny photos).’ See more responses here.
These are photos that I’ve run before, but quite a while ago. They still make me smile and I hope they do the same for you.
Geckos are endlessly entertaining.
But they’re not the only ones.
Black Triggerfish
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Black or Metallic.’ See more responses here.
I’m going with the Black Triggerfish for this one. This fish is very black except for distinctive light blue lines at the base of the dorsal and anal fins. Even the eyes are black and very difficult to distinguish in the water or in photos.
The exception to this is when the fish is aroused. Then, blue lines radiate from around the eyes. The more agitated the fish is, the more color is displayed until the fish is entirely blue, yellow and green, except for the fins and tail outline.
These fish often gather in large numbers high in the water, feeding on plankton and drifting algae. But they also feed lower in the water, especially when sergeant fish eggs are on the menu.
Abstracts: Textures
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Textures.’ See more responses here. There are captions on the photos, but see if you can figure out what they are first!
Getting the look
My regular swim these days, passes through the territory of the local Great Barracuda ohana. It’s quite common for them to gather in the wake of swimmers, mostly I think, in case the swimmers are spear fishing and might snag something they can steal.
Last week, this barracuda approached me from the front and gave me quite the look, but since it was no more than a foot long, I wasn’t too concerned.
A couple of days ago, I had a similar encounter with a similar-sized fish. This time the barracuda approached from dead ahead and only turned away at the last minute.
Had either of these been one of the giants, which can be three or four feet long and much bigger around, I’d probably have been wetting myself!
The second photo is posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge. See more responses here.
Graham's Island 