This is a collage of a vacation trip to the summit of Mauna Kea in
Hawai'i, which is 13,796 ft. high, home to the world's largest
telescopes, including Keck (see my OCIA link, page1). From top left:
 1. 1 of many ships arriving in Kailua Bay
 2. the shadow of the Mt. 100 miles away
 3. Black Sands beach (geologically short-lived)
 4. 1 of the telescopes
 5. the birds get within 3 ft. of you
 6. a 3 day-old moon
 7. sunset; a rainbow sky, way above the clouds
 8. the scopes while still on Saddle Rd.
 9. a map of the island
10. the sign at Volcanoes Nat'l park
11. the only tropical rain forest in the U.S.A; with a lava tube
12. a sulfur crater
13. a lava path from Mauna Loa

        taken 08/99 w/a normal 35mm zoom camera, 1600(1-6) & 800 speed