For your viewing pleasure, here are some of the best photos from Darker View assembled into a gallery. New Year is a time for reviewing the year past. I have enjoyed the last year, with the photos to prove it. I hope that 2013 brings you the chance to collect your own gallery of photos and memories.
Karen, Darcy, myself and Deb horseback riding in Waipio Valley
Apple bananas in our patch ready for harvest
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
A pāhoehoe breakout near Kupapa’u
A Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) leaps from the water near Seymour Narrows, British Columbia
Tools and parts ready for use in the workshop at Lagoon Cove, British Columbia
A fishing boat offloads fish at the packing plant in Petersburg, Alaska
A black bear (Ursus americanus) fishing at the Anan Wildlife Observatory
A workshop at Lagoon Cove, British Columbia
Visitors observe through the 40″ Nickel Telescope at Lick Observatory
Stars above the 40″ Nickel Telescope at Lick Observatory
The 36″ refractor at Lick Observatory
The roller coaster and rides along the boardwalk at Santa Cruz
The 16″ guns of the Battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor
A Snowflake Moray (Echidna nebulosa) in the reef at Three Tables, Oahu
A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the stern of the YO-257
A female sea urchin crab (Echinoecus pentagonus) in the anal cavity of a large banded urchin (Echinothrix calamaris)
An Arceye Hawkfish (Paracirrhites arcatus) hides from the photographer deep in a coral head
Diver Mark Devenot cruising the reef at Hoover’s Towers north of Honokohau
Hawaiian Toby (Canthigaster jactator) under a coral head at O’oma
Keferstein’s Sea Cucumber (Polyplectana kefersteini) at 30ft, Puakō
Yellow-spotted Guard Crab (Trapezia flavopunctata) at O’oma
Fourspot Butterflyfish (Chaetodon quadrimaculatus) under a coral head at O’oma
Flowery Flounder (Bothus mancus) on the reef at O’oma
A pair of White-margin Nudibranch (Glossodoris rufomarginata), 25ft depth at O’oma
Blackside Hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri) at O’oma
Gold Lace Nudibranch (Halgerda terramtuentis) in a small cave at 25′ depth, Puakō
White-margin Nudibranch (Glossodoris rufomarginata) grazing on colorful sponges, 25ft depth at O’oma
You never know what terrifying monsters of the deep lurk in these caves… Oh.. Hello dear.
The Keck crew lowering OSIRIS into Keck 1 AO
The team moving a mirror segment from the telescope to the coating facility
Three AO lasers aimed at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, the lasers are from both Keck 1 and Keck 2 as well as the Subaru telescope
George Wall snowing the Keck 1 Primary Mirror
Hard hats ready for use just outside the Keck 1 dome
A set of tools ready for use on the Keck 1 nasmyth deck
Both the Keck 1 and Keck 2 lasers in operation under a nearly full Moon
