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During my time in Hawaii, I’ve visited both the Volcano’s National Park on the Big Island and the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum on Oahu. During each visit, I’ve marveled at the paintings by Jules Tavernier and D. Howard Hitchcock. Both of these men were at the Volcano School in the late 1800s.
Wikipedia notes that Tavernier “was fascinated by Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes—a subject that was to pre-occupy him for the rest of his life, which was spent in Hawaii.” During this time, the trip to Kilauea was a grueling one-to-two day adventure on horseback. I can only imagine the journey.
In writing of Tavernier’s “House of Everlasting Fire”, The Hawaiian Gazette wrote, “Words fail to depict the awe-inspiring grandeur and weirdness which combine to strike the beholder with a conviction of the genius which can so truthfully portray the wondrous lineaments of the ever restless lake of fire, the dark and grim surroundings of the famed abode of that dread goddess whose fretful moods are voiced by loud explosions, fiery tongue and trembling’s of the earth.”
Hitchcock, was a graduate of Punahou School on Oahu and a student of Tavernier at the Volcano School and like Tavernier explored and painted “old” Hawaii, in all its glory.
And so, with both Tavernier and Hitchcock in mind, I took at spin at a digital rendering of an extremely rare, incredible, perhaps never seen before, fire hose of lava streaming into the ocean from the cliffs of Kilauea.
After our recent Kama’āina Observatory Experience on Muanakea, I was inspired to visit the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFTT) website where I discovered their wonderful work with time-lapse movies.
With permission from CFHT, “Lighting Storm Over Muanakea” is a “derivative” work from the Time-lapse Cloud Camera mounted to the catwalk of CFHT. The digital rendering is a composite of three separate individual frames selected from a 1 minute, 56 second MPEG4 clip with a final layer of my impressionistic interpretation.
CFHT’s Cloud Camera is an experimental high sensitivity camera which takes pictures every 30 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures.
More information about CFHT, their work, their Cloudcam and some wondrous time-lapse movies can be found here.
After four months of trying, we were lucky enough to get seats on the January 2017 Kama‘āina Observatory Experience which is offered by the Maunakea Observatories and ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center. Sign-up for the monthly tour is done online and fills up in 30 seconds. Additionally, you have to be Kama‘āina (Hawaiian resident) to sign up.
Introduced in October 2015 during a speech by President Barack Obama at the White House Astronomy Night in Washington, D.C. The Kama‘āina Observatory Experience starts at the Maunakea Visitor Information Station at 9,200 feet where you spend the 2.5 hours getting acclimated. During this time you are treated to a wonderful orientation and lunch. Because of the elevation and dry air, hydration is key to a good experience and it is highly recommended that you drink 500 mls of water per hour. This, over the course of 4.5 hours is a lot and I was well aware of where the restrooms were along the way.
The terrain at the summit on Mauna Kea (or Maunakea) can best be described as “Other Worldly.” And the view is breath taking. But at 13,803 feet, where there is 40% less oxygen than at sea level, you cannot take breathing for granted. Even with the acclimation and hydration I found myself feeling like I had two too many Manhattans, which I’m told is common. The good news is that I now know what to expect for our spring trip to Cusco, Peru which is at 11,152’ and Machu Picchu at 7,972’.
When we arrived at the summit our group was split in half and each group was treated to a tour of the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope and the Gemini Observatory. At both observatories, we toured both the control rooms and the observatory domes. In a word, AWESOME!
“Mauna Kea Ko Kāpou Pili’ana Iō Ke Ao Holo’oko’a”
Maunakea is our connection to the Universe – Naea Stevens
What would a Tropical Exposures website be without an image of Diamond Head? The iconic silhouette of Diamond Head can be found in much of Hawaiian art and is one of Hawaii’s most famous landmarks.
Wikipedia tells us that The Hawaiian name for Diamond Head, Lēʻahi came from a combination of lea (brown ridge promontory) plus ʻahi ‘tuna’ because the ridgeline resembles the shape of a tuna’s dorsal fin. When the British arrived in the 19th century, the sailors mistook calcite crystals found along the beach as diamonds.
When ever I look at Diamond Head, I have to wonder what Lēʻahi looked like as a fully formed volcano before the eruption occurred that created the crater.
