Afternoon Departure

A Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 departs HNL for Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN in the late afternoon.

Waikiki From Afar

The Waikiki skyline as seen from Maunalani Heights, which is actually just a few miles away.

Sparklers

A couple plays with some sparklers on New Year's Eve, before the stroke of midnight.

Irish Pub

Murphy's Bar & Grill is one a few Irish pubs in Honolulu. It's also one of the more popular watering holes for the "Pau Hana" (after work) crowd that work in downtown.

According to the sign above the awning, Murphy's is holding a block party this afternoon in the parking lot across the street.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Popcorn Orchids

Popcorn orchids in bloom along the orchid wall at the Kahala Hotel & Resort.

Escalators

Department store giant Nordstrom's made its debut in Honolulu last Friday, opening its first full store in the Ala Moana Shopping Center. Over 1,000 people lined up to be the first ones through the doors. In a new separate wing, there are also a bunch of new stores that will open along the walkway to "Nordies".

Today's photo was actually taken last Saturday as Kathy and I, along with my parents went to check out the three-story addition to Ala Moana. The store was quite crowded with gawkers and shoppers that day. I wanted to get a motion blur shot as we were descending from the third to second floor.

Spray Painting

Marine artist Wyland adds a lighter shade of blue-grey to the humpback whale being painted on the right aft section of N748AL, "Koholālele". I was standing about ten yards from the cherry picker, to get this shot at 1/500 seconds ... that was the only way I could avoid becoming one with the paint.

Pathway

Is this the road less taken?

Moonlight Crossing

An airliner crosses through the frame above a rising full moon, as it makes its descent to HNL arriving from the mainland, while fishermen on shore do some night fishing at Kaka‘ako Park.

Giant Tiare

A giant-sized tiare (Tahitian Gardenia) from the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

Tide Pools

The tide pools along the shoreline fronting the Ihilani Resort in the late afternoon sun.

Sunflower Bees

Two honeybees do their work pollenating this sunflower.

Side View Mirror

Looking back at this Hawaiian Air 767 departing for the west coast.

Leaf

A leaf found at the Hawai‘i Convention Center ...

Picnic Table

A picnic table on the Universtiy of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus ...

Self Portrait ... Uno Mas

A self-portait I took while photographing airliners ...

Limousine

A front end view of an Excalibur limousine used by Japanese tourist wedding couples that were chaufeurred to (and from) their wedding location.

Banyan Tree

The roots and trunk of a banyan tree looking from the ground up.

Footprints ... Again

This month's theme week is "monochromes" ... for this week, all the photos posted will be in black & white.

Leading off this week, a bird's footprints amongst human's footprints.

Croton

The colorful leaves of a croton hedge can be found in many places around Hawai‘i.