I look at this and I remember the small plants you see in stores at Christmas time. People think they are beautiful but stuff in the wild that's been growing there more than a few months is much more beautiful. I just wish the colors had stayed the same as when I saw them first.
I think that's plumeria. It comes in different varieties and colors.
There are endless oportunites to see beautiful sunsets and sunrises. Capturing them on on film is very hard for a novice. Sometimes you are just lucky.
Bananas. I still get a thrill out of seeing them growing here in Texas.
I tried hard to "fix" this. The print was badly damaged. This is what it looked like in the spot where I would walk out for ages and still be not more than a foot deep. After awhile I'd get scared that there would be a sudden drop off. I always turned back. You had to walk where the sandy bottom was and not on the sharp coral stuff. I don't really know if this stuff is called coral. I always thought of coral as the pretty stuff you see in photos but someone told me it was still coral even if it wasn't the pretty branching stuff. I just figured they knew more than me.
We could easily call this "fire in the sky" but its just the sun setting.
I didn't take either of these. The bottom one I'm sure is on another island.
Tom at Haleiwa
If you look at the edge of the water that's where I would play mostly. If it reached my knees, I was in too far. Beyond that line of tree growth is another waterway where the water came in deep. I don't think it was naturally made. Tom would go over there to swim sometimes but I wouldn't even look. He came back over to the shallow beach one day and told me a shark had swam right beside him. He did admit it was only about a foot and a half long at the time. Just another reason for me to avoid the water.