Category Archives: Hawaii

MM 206: A Kaanapali Beach Scene

Posted on April 23, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

For this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge I am submitting yet another photo from our vacation on the island of Maui in 1982. I took several shots while walking along the beach one day and most of the time my camera … Continue reading →

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MM 205: The Iao Needle

Posted on April 17, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

My entry for this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge is another photo I took while on vacation on the island of Maui during the summer of 1982. We visited Iao Valley State Park one day and I took this photo of … Continue reading →

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MM 204: Maui Sugarcane Field

Posted on April 11, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

We vacationed on the island of Maui in 1982 and the other day I finally got around to scanning and digitizing the slides I took that summer. My entry for this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge is this shot I took … Continue reading →

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MM 200 Honolulu Hotel

Posted on March 12, 2018 by crowcanyonjournal

We stayed at the Hyatt Place on Paoakalani Avenue during our one-week stay in Hawaii in 2015. My entry for this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge is a close-up shot of the hotel directly across the street from us.

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MM 4-01 A Tree near Kilauea Crater

Posted on April 26, 2017 by crowcanyonjournal

For this week’s Monochrome Madness Challenge I decided to submit a photo I took during our visit to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island in 1979. In those days there were boardwalks all over and you could walk … Continue reading →

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MM 3-27 Hawaii’s Largest Banyan Tree

Posted on October 18, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

We have traveled to Hawaii many times over the years and on three of those times we visited the island of Maui and viewed the state’s largest banyan tree. The tree stands proudly in the town of Lahaina’s Courthouse Square. … Continue reading →

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Monochrome Madness 2-47: Straight

Posted on March 1, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

Leanne Cole has suggested that there be a theme for the first week of each month’s Monochrome Madness Challenge. I went back to the view from our Honolulu hotel balcony during our visit to Hawaii last year for my version … Continue reading →

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MM 2-43 Curves in Monochrome

Posted on February 2, 2016 by crowcanyonjournal

I went all the way back to January of last year to find my monochrome photo for this month’s theme of Curves. We spent a few hours during our trip to Hawaii that month visiting the Honolulu Museum of Art … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: St Augustine by-the-sea Catholic Church in Waikiki

Posted on March 17, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

On the day after our family wedding several of us who were staying at various Waikiki hotels got together to attend Mass at 5pm and then go out to dinner at a nearby restaurant. My wife and I only had … Continue reading →

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Hawaii 2015: The Honolulu Memorial and the War in the Marianas

Posted on March 15, 2015 by crowcanyonjournal

This is the second of two postings on the lessons in history and geography we learned from studying the mosaic galleries in the Honolulu Memorial at Punchbowl Cemetery (See here for my first posting in the series). The focus here … Continue reading →

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