Maui Scenes, Part Twelve (Clouds and Sky); May 2018
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Drama is inherent in Maui, from bottom to top. Thus, volcanic rock memorializes the islands' violent, fiery origins; even at rest it remains graphically dramatic in the blacks and dark browns of cooled lava. And the sky overhead projects fleeting visual ephemera of clouds, mist, rain, shafts of sunlight on a vast canvas stretching between low horizons. This canvas seems much larger than the sky in places - like Alaska - where nearby ranges shrink the sky's sweep. Maui's sky seeming reaches a full 180 degree overhead vista. Maui's clouds range from powerful, puffy cumulus, apparently innocent in their angelic white purity, to athletic cumulonimbus, infused with white and black streaks. It all makes for dynamic theater.
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This panorama, is unfortunately compressed by the blog's limitations. A much larger version is to be found on my Maui 2018 gallery. Here is the direct link to that gallery: https://bobeastaughimagery.zenfolio.com/p889127190.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.