Cloudscapes

Hale'akala and Mauna Kea are two of the most sacred peaks in Hawai'i. Located at elevations higher than 10,000 feet, the summits of these peaks are almost always above the cloud cover. Here, the sun rises from, and sets into the cloud cover - something I had never witnessed before, except from airplane windows. The result is a constantly changing 'cloudscape'.

The interplay of these constantly changing cloud patterns and the light of the rising or setting sun is impossible to capture in any meaningful way. The pictures below are but a representation of experiences too powerful to even describe, much less photograph.

To be there and witness these moments, is to gain some insight into how certain places might have come to be regarded as sacred to begin with!