Fotoeins Friday: Kohala flank, Hawaiian dawn
It’s a glorious December morning on the Big Island of Hawaii. At 8am, there aren’t any early-bird visitors, except staff to cut, trim, water, or rake parts of the golf course. I’m on the Mauna Kea Golf Course, but I’m not about to tackle the 409-yard par-4 13th hole. Instead, I have to leave the sweet digs at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, and fly to Honolulu in a few hours to catch another hop onto the mainland. Before I leave, I’m saying hello to Kohala, an extinct shield-volcano anchoring the northwest corner of the island.
(Click on the “arrow-window” icon at the upper left corner of the map below for details.)
I made the photo above on 8 December 2009 with a Canon EOS450D camera, EF 70-300 zoom-lens, and the following settings: 1/1250s, f/4.5, ISO200, and 115mm focal length (184mm full-frame equivalent). Gotta love the USGS topo-surveys for providing names to geological and geographical features. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotopress at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-7KC.
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