I’ve been thinking a little lately about various photography projects I want to pursue. I’ve started taking photos along King Street (more on that later) and hope that soon I can start taking photos of the Ala Wai Canal, which divides Waikiki from the McCully neighborhood of Honolulu, and dumps into the ocean near Ala Moana. My running route usually takes me along one or both sides of the canal, so I have plenty of time to meditate on the weird, wonderful, and sometimes disgusting things I see in and around the canal.
On today’s run I saw:
- at least four submerged shopping carts
- some fish that I swear were barracudas. They were long and predatory-looking. Of course, the barracuda is the only fish I know that’s long and predatory-looking, so I guess they could have been something else.
- an abandoned half-eaten box of pastries and half-full gallon of milk, sitting by a bench
- a really cool white fish with an enormous bumpy head
- a few funny dogs
- three people fishing
- signs saying DON’T FISH THE WATER IS CONTAMINATED
- a perfect yellow hibiscus blossom floating in the thick brown water
Maybe I think ugly and weird things are more interesting than I should, but I really want to start taking photos of all this random crap. I guess if you spend enough time in a place – or in this case, along a certain route – you start noticing and appreciating all the quirky stuff.
Little boat in the Ala Wai, near the McCully bridge
