Tiki torches, Kahala, HI

Tiki torches flickering in the sunset.

Trick-or-treating Jellyfish

We pause this Hawaiian expedition for a moment of Halloween: a trick-or-treating jellyfish seen last year, its tentacles illuminated with strands of LEDs.

Sunrise watchers, Kahala, HI

Every morning, the hotel balconies were full of people out to watch the sunrise.

Beach flattener, Kahala, HI

Every morning, the sand is perfectly flat, and that is not a coincidence: flattening machines wipe out all traces of the previous day's activities, leaving nothing but their lines of raking in the sand.

Kahala Resort at dawn

Another shot of the Kahala at dawn, highlighting the criss-crossing structure of its inside-out beams.

Kahala Resort at dawn

Sunrise turn white to orange on the inside-out concrete ribbings of the Kahala resort.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

And another moment later, the light condenses and intensifies, just before it bursts to day.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

Light exploding up into the sunrise like a bursting fountain.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

The very moment of the emergence of the sun

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

Another sunrise morning off Kahala, just moments before the Sun emerges from the edge of the sea.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

The shining bulge of the sun emerges, and the sky catches fire behind the palms.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

Another morning, with deeper resonating clouds above the sunrise.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

The next moment of this beautiful tropical sunrise, as the sun pokes just a bit higher up.

Tropical sunrise at Kahala, HI

The sun coming up into a perfect tropical dawn. Pretty much every morning was like this at Kahala, and we embraced the time change to be able to see them all.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii

Another shot of Waikiki, featuring the Rainbow Tower of the Hilton complex.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii

The shining towers of Waikiki beach, all hotels and condos.

Ghost freighter, Hawaii

Freighter fading ghostly into thin rain showers and fog off the coast of Oahu.

Parasurfer, Hawaii

Parasurfer out near a fringing reef off Oahu, driving their surf-board along with a high-flying sail.

Well-bored tree, Kahala, HI

Deep-bored holes all over the trunk of this palm tree, likely by damaging insects.

Sea turtle, Hawaii

Sea turtle in a saltwater pool where we were staying.

Palm trees, Kahala, HI

Palm trees blowing in the strong breeze

Palm trees at dawn, Kahala, HI

Palm trees in silhouette at dawn at Kahala.

Rainbow, Kahala, HI

The full bright arch of a rainbow across the bay at Kahala.

Rainbow, Kahala, HI

A bright rainbow off of Kahala, Hawaii.

Menehune at work!, Honolulu, HI

The Honolulu airport, as with all airports everywhere, was under construction. I delighted in their signs, however, asking us to hang loose and chill at least as much as their iconic worker.

Flaps up for landing

Wing flaps up for landing, our airplane exposes the complex lines of its operating hydraulics (at least I assume it's still hydraulics, given that this is a middle-aged Boeing model).

West Loch Naval Magazine, Hawaii

Another part of the West Lock Naval Magazine. These more tightly packed bunkers I think might not be explosives, but much be old bomb-proof airplane hangers left over from the Second World War.

West Loch Naval Magazine, Hawaii

These great flat half-buried bunkers belong to the West Lock Naval Magazine, and are likely all still active: if the Navy decides to blow something up somewhere near the Pacific Ocean, there's a good chance the weapons were loaded out of these bunkers or their cousins.

Quonset huts, Hawaii

The semicircles of old quonset huts on a Naval base. Nearby in the jungle, bits dating back to the Second World War are still fading away.

Solar field, Ewa, Hawaii

A great field of solar panels, helping reduce the islands' dependence on distant sources of oil and gas.

Tight-packed housing, Ewa, Hawaii

Tightly packed housing near the naval base in Ewa, west of Honolulu.

Light rail, Hawaii

Amidst damp green plains on Western Oahu, this highway has a brand new light rail system strung along beside it---too new even to have yet made it onto Google Maps, but that's the East Kapolei stop at the end of the line and UH West Oahu stop just barely visible at the top.  I don't know if it's even fully operational yet, but I'm happy to see it growing there.

Landing rainbow, Hawaii

As we descend for landing, a rainbow welcomes us to Hawaii.

New Mexico ski resort

Striping black and white lines of a ski resort in Northern New Mexico.

Lightly snow-dusted plains, Western Texas

Field lightly dusted with snow on the plains of Western Texas.

Shadows at DFW

Curving shadows on a differently curving wall at the Dallas Airport.

Landing in the Dallas haze

Airplane circling to land in the dull brown haze of Dallas.

Cluttered warehouse roof, Dallas, TX

Roof of a warehouse that is just packed with blocky white air-conditioning units. I suspect it must be a data processing center of some sort.

Complex Dallas interchange

Another view of this complex Dallas highway interchange.

Complex Dallas interchange

An extremely complex highway interchange in Dallas, its structure highlighted by the quality of light and shadows at the time I shot this.

Looping lighting, CID

Another more abstract and less ominous view of the looping lighting in the Eastern Iowa Airport.

Death star lighting, CID

This lighting arrangement at the center of rays and circles makes me think of the planet-destroying ray from the Death Star.

Juncture of old and new, Eastern Iowa Airport

In the midst of ongoing renovations at the Eastern Iowa Airport, raw old concrete peeks out from beneath the illuminated curve of new facade.

Evening construction site, Iowa City

Orange tinting from sunset on the concrete of a construction site in Iowa City.

Ceilings of DCA

Arching window frames up to the ceiling in the dusk of the DC airport.

Ceilings of DCA

Many-arched cathedral-like ceiling of the DC airport.

Ceilings of DCA

Many-arched cathedral-like ceiling of the DC airport.

Rainbow marina merry-go-round, Washington DC

Rainbow illuminated merry-go-round, apparently called "The Capital Wheel" at the end of a pier and marina in National Harbor.

Highway swirl near Washington, DC

Swirling interchange just south of Washington, DC, with the elevated portions highlighted by the different colored concrete used in the bridges.

Cloud bars

Long parallel bars of cloud over the Appalachian mountains.