Collecting Pollen

A honey bee gathers pollen from a prickly pear cactus flower.

A Fern In A Gutter

An elkhorn fern grows in a rain gutter at the McKinley Tiger Softball Stadium. It was right behind my camera scaffold was set up. During this past season, the plant was removed.

Orange

An orange passion butterfly spreads its wings while on an orange cosmo flower.

Ironwood Sapling

A sapling of an ironwood tree emerges from the rocks at Keʻiki Beach.

Walking Iris

A trio of walking irises in bloom.

Ti Leaf Flowers & Honeybees

Honeybees hover around this bunch of ti leaf flowers to collect pollen.

‘Ōhia Lehua Bees

Honeybees hover and gather at these ‘Ōhia Lehua flowers.

Tall Trees

Tall trees along the road in the Pu‘u ‘Ualaka‘a State Wayside Park.

Late Winter Bare Trees

Bare trees in snow along a country road outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Christmas Tree Farm

A snow-banked Douglas Fir Christmas tree farm outside the parking lot of River Valley Church, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Sun And Norfolk Pines

The sun peeks through a cluster of Norfolk Pine trees.

Blue Irises

Happy Easter!

A trio of blue irises in bloom.

Sunflower Farm

One of the sunflowers at a sunflower farm in Waialua, captured with a honeybee collecting pollen.

Color Splash Bird Of Paradise

Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou! Happy New Year!

This year's first photo was taken with my iPhone, and used the Color Splash app to remove the color from background of this bird of paradise flower.

‘Ōhia Lehua

The ‘ōhia lehua flower is an endemic plant that is found on all Hawaiian Islands.

Flower Power

Our May Instagram collage features a variety of flower shots, especially with May 1st being "Lei Day" in Hawai‘i.

Coconut Trees

Starting off the weekly posts by going into the photo archives to 2011, and this ultra-wideangle lens shot of coconut palms at Kaimana Beach Park. I took this photo with a Tokina 10-16mm before shooting a wedding later in the day.

Sun and Norfolk Pines

The late afternoon sun peeks through Norfolk Pine trees.

Pine Needles

A macro shot of pine needles ...

Pink

A bunch of pink plumeria in bloom, shot with a fisheye lens.