Railroad to nowhere
Kapaa, Kauai
Cottage Cat
This young boy with a kinked tail let himself in to our cottage in Kauai. He let himself back out when some chickens got uncomfortably close to the lanai.
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.
Kauai af
Kīlauea Point NWR
Kauai
Lunch guest
Kōkeʻe Lodge, Kauai
Silhouettes
Kawai'ele Waterbird Sanctuary, Kauai
Eclipse setup
Camera position for photographing the lunar eclipse over Kawelikoa Point, Kauai. Planning for the eclipse was done using The Photographer's Ephemeris on my iPad, with on-site confirmation using the augmented reality mode of PhotoPills. The eclipse was on the first full day of my first visit to Kauai, so I wasn't sure how it would work out, nor was I sure how to get to the location I selected. My wife and I did some advance scouting the afternoon before, but only had time to go partway. The full hike from the end of the dirt road where I parked ended up being a little over a mile, over a combination of beach and trails. I benefitted tremendously from OpenStreetMaps maps that I downloaded to my GPS app, MotionX-GPS. The maps had excellent coverage of the trails, and allowed very efficient route-finding. I recorded my track to the shooting location so I could retrace my steps back to the car in the darkness of the total eclipse.
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Gecko snack
Garden Island Grille, Kauai
Coffee on the lanai
Kauai
Approach to Lihue
Kauai
Cliff diver
South Point, Hawaii
Tide pool
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii
Pahoehoe
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii
Waves on black sand
Punaluʻu Beach, Hawaii
Market kitty
Kona, Hawaii
Sunset
Ocean View Estates, Hawaii
Insurance saleslizard
Big Island Brewhaus, Waimea, Hawaii
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.