
The overlapping fronds of an areca palm create patterns of light and shadow.
Category Archives: Abstracts
Abstracts: Surface shimmers
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
Abstracts: Watercolor
Abstracts: Do I smell a rat?
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.







