- 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. - 20190120-iPhoneX-00382
- 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.