- Waves and boobies
The white dots on the cliffs are Red-footed Boobies. Kīlauea Point NWR, Kauai. - Walkways
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - W. M. Keck Observatory
- Valley fog
Pihea Trail, Kauai - Torches
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii. These were lit each evening by a man blowing a conch shell. - Rooster portrait
Kauai - Railroad to nowhere
Kapaa, Kauai - Playground tree
Lihue, Kauai. Mostly I just like this because it shows how far the camera on the iPhone X has come. This is the first vacation I've been on where I felt like I could mix phone shots in with DSLR shots and they wouldn't look out of place. - NIRC
The Keck near-infrared camera. I used this instrument in grad school, and now it's a museum piece. - Market kitty
Kona, Hawaii - Lunch guest
Kōkeʻe Lodge, Kauai - LRIS slitmask
A slitmask for the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at Keck. A lot of my time in grad school was spent designing these slitmasks. Each of the slits corresponded to a (candidate) high-redshift galaxy whose spectrum we wanted to collect. - Lei
Gina's lei on our balcony at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii - Kīlauea Point NWR
Kauai - Kīlauea Point Lighthouse
Kauai - Keck logo window
Window in the rear of the visitors' center, facing the ops rooms. When observing, we would spend the night in the ops rooms, directing the observations and reviewing the data. - Kauai af
- Insurance saleslizard
Big Island Brewhaus, Waimea, Hawaii - HH
Heavenly Hawaiian Kona Coffee Farms, Hawaii - Hale Pohaku visitors' center
At 9000 feet elevation, on the way to the Mauna Kea summit.