Category Archives: Abstracts

Abstracts: The pitter-patter of tiny feet

The telltale foot pads of a gecko making its way up the outside of a window blind.

Abstracts: Tide pool color waves

Waves of lava in this tide pool have gained color over time.

Abstracts: Drying mud puddle

Out on a walk one day, I came across this mud puddle well into the process of drying. I like the soft, pale channels between the segments, which will soon dry into hard cracks. Those cracks and segments will be ground into dust by traffic – until it rains again.

Abstracts: Sand, sea and sun

A small cluster of whitebar surgeonfish pass over sandy ridges dappled by sunlight.

Abstracts: Lava dance

I posted here and here about recent trips to see lava entering the ocean from Kilauea Volcano’s Pu’u O’o vent. Not all my photos, taken on a rocking boat in a rolling ocean, turned out. But even the ones that didn’t provided, what I consider, some happy accidents such as this one of dancing lava.

Abstracts: Bubble machine

In the water, it’s wise to be aware of what waves and swell are doing. Caught unawares, it’s easy to get tumbled over rock and coral. But I like to get close enough to see fish sluicing back and forth, and also to see the waves crashing around the rocks leaving little whirlpools and storms of bubbles.