Ripples in the water of ʻAimakapā Fishpond at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park. It was a calm day and these weren’t wind generated, but rather from fish snatching insects off the surface of the pond.
Abstracts: Ripples
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Abstracts: Skull
Another beach find to follow up yesterday’s post. When I saw this I thought, ‘skull,’ though it’s possible it’s just a lump of bleached and weathered coral.
Posted in response to this month’s Becky’s Squares challenge theme of ‘Odd.’ See more responses here.
Abstracts: Bubbles
When I’m in the water, I like taking photos looking back up toward the surface. These can produce some strange and unusual images. On this day, clumps of bubbles were drifting around and catching the light.
Posted in response to this month’s Becky’s Squares challenge theme of ‘Odd.’ See more responses here.
Abstracts: Plumeria buds
This is the time of year when Plumeria produce buds, which will become flowers in the next week or two. There were a few leaves on this tree, but most will fill in after the flowers bloom.
Abstracts: Water painting
I took some photos in the water a while back, planning on doing a series. I posted one and then forgot about them. Here’s another one.
Abstracts: Psychedelic mud puddle
I’m pretty sure I had a t-shirt that looked a lot like this, back in the day! Incidentally, Psychedelic Mud Puddle would be a pretty good name for a band.
Abstracts: Wheel
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Metallic.’ See more responses here.
I’m not much of a car person. I like vehicles that are comfortable and reasonable to run. But mostly I look for reliability. But I know many people are really into cars.
Here on the island, we have lifted and lowered vehicles, cars with spoilers and go-faster stripes and other strange accessories. Tricked-out Honda Civics seem to be popular, but at the end of the day they’re still Civics, not Ferraris.
Wheels are popular spots for expression. I still think of hubcaps as round bits of shiny metal covering the wheel nuts, but those days are long gone. Hubcaps, or whatever they’re called these days, can be anything. The wheel in the photo had a jazzy, offset spiral thing going on. The irony is that many of these shiny, metallic pieces of auto art are not metal at all, but plastic wannabes.
Abstracts: Beach formation
A jumble of coral, lava rocks, and shells constitute a somewhat coarse beach currently, but over time, these pieces will be worn down to form finer beach material.
Graham's Island 