Water shimmers over colorful rocks.
Category Archives: Abstracts
Abstracts: Where’s the dragonfly?
I was walking through a stand of kiawes when a dragonfly jitterbugged by. I hoped it might loop back so that I could get a photo of it, but instead it headed toward the top of a tree and disappeared. I thought I saw where it went and got as close as I could, which was still a good distance away. I trained my camera in its direction and took a few photos, not sure if it was even in shot. I thought I might just be taking pictures of a twig. It wasn’t until I got home and looked at the photos that I saw I’d been right about its location all along.
Abstracts: A reflective grasshopper
I found this grasshopper cautiously climbing the slick surface of my truck’s windshield. I like the grasshopper’s reflection, as well as those of the truck’s surroundings.
Abstracts: Watercolor
Water in a tide pool looking like a watercolor.
Abstracts: Do I smell a rat?
Not sure how abstract this is, but it made me look twice. I was just about to walk under a shed roof when I noticed this. The rat was still very much alive so I gave it a wide berth.
Abstracts: Pahoehoe lava
This is ropey pahoehoe lava. It’s formed when a flow meets a small barrier, pushing up a small rope-like ridge, which cools, causes a new rope to form, and so on.
For more information about types of lava, go to instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?Volcano.types.
Abstracts: Tide pool color
Water ripples in a colorful tide pool.
Abstracts: Irrigation
Irrigating the pastures of North Kohala. The water comes from the Kohala Ditch, an irrigation channel that runs from the northeast side of Kohala mountain to the dryer northwest end. The ditch was constructed back in 1906 to bring water to the sugar cane fields. These days the water goes to the many agricultural activities in the area.
For more information about the history of the Kohala Ditch, go to fluminkohala.com/the-kohala-ditch.
Graham's Island 