My family have come to visit and gone again, and as expected it was a wonderful, hectic, whirlwind of a time. I'll have a report of my trip (for the first time!) to Green Sands Beach coming Soon™, but for the past few days I've mostly been decompressing and getting ready for teaching a few astronomy and physics courses at UH Hilo this semester, so this'll be a short post. Classes start this week, instead of next week like I somehow got mixed up and thought, so I'll be jumping in at the deep end with less preparation than expected! But hopefully it'll work out – it's mostly labs, so there isn't really anything to do the first week, and everyone I've spoken to seems pretty relaxed about it. (In contrast to how stressed I am thinking about it.)
Leaving that aside, for this post I wanted to quickly mention that I've got two of my drone photos in the 2026 Hawaiʻi Island Art Alliance Invitational exhibition at the Wailoa Center in downtown Hilo, as part of a collaboration between the Hilo Photo Shooters Club and Pau Hana Writers called Hawaiʻi Island: Images by Light and Pen. The exhibition runs from January 16–February 12, with an opening reception from 5–7 PM on the 16th which I plan to attend. I think I've shared both photos on this blog previously so it won't be anything new to long-time readers, but I'll try to get some pictures of them in situ, as it were. It's funny to think that I'll now be a thrice-exhibited artist, and for sculpture, paintings, and now photography! A hui hou!
