Solar Light With a New Lens

I remember testing out a new Sigma 180-500 aspherical zoom lens a few years back.

This photograph was made of the sun as it was near to sinking into the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii.

I like the simplicity and singularity of a heavenly body that never changes (at least in our lifetimes).

Ghost Tree Above Hilo Town

There is a stretch of the highway coming down from Volcano, Hawaii that has many mini-forests of giant albizia trees.

These trees grow so tall that they essentially kill themselves because their root systems are so shallow that wind can play a factor with their survival.

Others like this lone sentinel survive standing as a skeleton