Contrast…

tropical sky…

Christmas Island Flats Map (Mappery.com)

Blue Sky Over Aqua…

These three images show the tide out on a flat at Christmas Island in the South Pacific. As the tide would come in the bonefish, trevally, sharks and other hungry fish would push up onto the flat, in the rising waters looking for food. What appears to be high and dry sand, would soon be under one to two feet of water with the shadows of marauding fish visible on the bottom…casting to shadows…to ghosts. 

Christmas Island early morn…….

Photography & Travel: Name This Flower

One of the few splashes of color during a trip to Kiritimati (Christmas Island), I could never quite identify this flowering tree/shrub. I couldn’t find out if it is native or introduced to the London, Kiritimati locale. 

Above, Agnes Taia Reiti, during her birthday celebration wore a colorful, flowered head band. Outside, her husband, Eri, stands before the tree that bore the beautiful white flowers.

Travel: Christmas Island Cemetery

I found these two images from a trip to Kiritimati (Christmas Island) a few years back. 

Grey Skies: Recalling Blue

The skies have turned that prolonged color of grey. Shades of grey, day after day. I will be alright for awhile longer, but by February or March, I will crave blue, warmth, sunshine, dryness. In the meantime, I will look at photos that recall blue skies.