Veteran's Day

We honor the men and women who have served our great country this day! We salute your courage and selfless acts in keeping the USA free. Thank you!

A Hawai‘i Air National Guard F-15A "Eagle" departs HNL, south-bound on a training sortie.

Giant Agave

This giant agave is part of Kapi‘olani Community College's xeriscape garden. The very top reached about seven feet.

Afternoon Fishing

A bunch of fishermen cast their hooks at the mouth of the Kalaeloa Harbor.

Hollow Points

Two jacketed hollow point .45ACP bullets: the left, is an unfired Federal Hydra-Shok; and the right is a Hydra-Shok bullet I shot from my Glock into water-filled milk cartons. Hollow point bullets are designed to expand, to help incapacitate the target.

I had seen these test done in firearms magazines, and wanted to try it myself. Some friends and I found a private range on the other side of the island that allowed us to shoot objects. So I saved several half-gallon milk cartons, filled them with water, and lined them sideways.

Remove Before Flight

These long red tags are attached to a parked aircraft, to keep it place, or protect parts from damage. They need to be removed before flight by either the flight crew or ground crew. This tag belongs to the engine inlet of Kamaka Air's new Cessna Super Cargomaster.

Mickey & Minnie

This Mickey & Minnie Mouse knife set belongs to Josh & Sheri, who used it to cut the cake at their wedding reception.

Crystal Rose

I gave this Swarovski crystal rose to Kathy for Valentine's Day this year ...

Exercise Your Right!

What better shot for Election Day, than a voter's stub, mine, for today's General Election. Well, actually I had cast my absentee ballot this past Friday.

I exercised my civic duty ... did you?

Harajuku Lovers

Singer Gwen Stefani came out with a fashion line called Harajuku Lovers, and one of the products is perfume. There are five bottles based on characters Stefani came up with, and each has its own scent. This scent, called "Love" was one that Kathy picked out when we went shopping a couple of weeks back. This bottle was so cute I wanted to get a shot of it.

Tractor Treads

This month's theme week is the "small stuff", or macro shots, extreme close-ups, or small items ... you get the picture.

Today's photo is an extreme close-up of tractor treads from an earth mover I came across on a beach.

Orchid Leaf

A leaf from one of my orchids ...

Trick Or Treat!

Happy Halloween! Have a safe & fun time trick ot treating! :-)

This jack-o-lantern family was part of a display a house had set up in a near-by neighborhood.

Collector's Can

When I did August's theme week of the Beijing Olympics, the original intention was to find products with the "Official Sponsor" tag. Couldn't find a whole week's worth, so I changed it to the Air China logojet. This was one of the first products I had with a Beijing 2008 logo on it.

CocaCola came out with collector cans and bottles with flags of different nations on each can.

Down Escalator

The down escalator at the Hawai‘i Convention Center, that goes from the third level to the ground level, non-stop.

White Rosemary Flowers

I came across these white Rosemary flowersat in the landscaping at a wedding chapel.

Couple Watching Sunset

While photographing a sunset, I saw this couple in front of me, and thought it would make a cute shot. I also played around in Photoshop around them.

Waikīkī Shoreline

The Waikīkī Beach shoreline, and Diamond Head (Leahi), as seen from the Tower Wing of the Moana Surfrider Hotel. I was there to videotape a Japanese tourist wedding couple get ready for their ceremony and photo shoot.

Udom Blue

A few of my Udom Blue Angel orchids in bloom.

Reef Runway

HNL's Runway 8R/26L, or "Reef Runway" was built from crushed coral and reclaimed land to handle additional traffic for outbound flights for commercial and military flights.

The 12,000-foot runway is also a designated alternate landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle vehicles.

I took this photo from the Pu‘u ‘Ualaka‘a State Wayside Park (or Mount Tantalus Lookout). In the foreground is part of the downtown Honolulu skyline, and Honolulu Harbor. There's a Continental Airlines 767-400 about to touchdown on Runway 26L, with a Northwest Airlines 757-300 holding for departure, and an Aloha Airlines 737-200C taxiing toward the cargo ramp. In the background is the ‘Ewa plain of west O‘ahu.

Viaduct

Driving under the viaduct that Nimitz Highway runs below Interstate H-1.