Parting Shot

AccesSurf’s Ann Yoshida, left, a training specialist and the only adaptive athlete inducted into the Hawaii Waterman Hall of Fame, and AccessSurf Executive Director Cara Short helped run the 2022 Hawai‘i Adaptive Surfi ng Championships in June. It was the…

‘Ulu Mana started in 2017 after Hawai‘i Island native Loren Shoop merged his favorite hummus recipes with ‘ulu.

“We hired two new people and invested in equipment to help with the creative side and faster turnaround,” says Andrew Min, GM of the 70-year-old family business in Iwilei. His grandparents, Frank and Elaine Min, launched Min’s Workshop after Frank…

Local artist Shar Tuiasoa paints an indoor mural at the new dispensary in ‘Aiea for Noa Botanicals, a medical cannabis company. Tuiasoa’s mural tells the story of migration and the different ways in which plants, resources and people have migrated…

TIME: WEDNESDAY, 9:13 A.M. LOCATION: NU‘UANU, O‘AHU PHOTOGRAPHER: AARON K. YOSHINO A crew from H.T.M. Contractors removes a huge monkeypod branch from the Honolulu Myohoji Mission in Nu‘uanu. The branch fell on the roof in April and was an “emergency…

Marlene Hertz, right, a volunteer personal shopper with the YWCA O‘ahu’s Dress for Success program, works with Marisa Alderman during a “suiting.” The program provides women with professional outfits from community donated clothing, says Kehaulani Coleman, director of economic advancement…

After automated slicing and bagging, a worker at Love’s Bakery fills trays with loaves that will be loaded on delivery trucks. The daily baking of breads, buns and doughnuts is spread over two shifts – 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.…

Allen Wall, left, and Arian Yee squeegee ink through a silk screen to apply a Sig Zane design called Ho‘olauki. It took two stages and about one hour to print one 30-yard piece of fabric, says Chris Yokogawa, the second-generation…

Head Aquarist Nadine Nagata weighs a seven-month-old Hawaiian green sea turtle, part of a routine analysis of the animal’s development. Maui Ocean Center’s turtles come from Sea Life Park Hawaii where they are bred by a colony of turtles that…

Christianne Moss and Jose Miguel Rodriguez rehearse the opening duet from Act 2 of “The Nutcracker” ballet. “This is a partnering posture that usually concludes a pas de deux (dance duet) with something of a flourish,” dance instructor Micki Kolberg…

Time: Wednesday, 9:48 a.m. Location: Sand Island State Recreation Area, Honolulu Photographer: Aaron K. Yoshino Honolulu Freight Service, founded in 1937, provides cargo shipping and handling in Hawai‘i and between here and the Mainland. Local operations run from terminals in Honolulu…

The massive 350-foot-long dredging ship Essayons was dry-docked for maintenance from December 2018 to April 2019 at the Pacific Shipyards facility at Honolulu Harbor. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers uses the Essayons to dredge large harbor entrances along the…

Volunteers with the Honolulu Fukushima Bon Dance Club assembled the red and white yagura for the annual Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin Bon Dance that happened in June. Musicians set up in the top of the yagura as is the tradition,…

Time: Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 10:23 a.m. Location: Magic Island, Honolulu Photographer: Jeff Hawe Travis…

The Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory is home to two of the world’s eight manned deep diving research submersibles. Operations director Terry Kerby (pictured) says that once a year, HURL’s two subs, Pisces IV and Pisces V, are loaded on an…

A Kamehameha Butterfly is released at Kawainui Marsh in Kailua. The Kamehameha is endemic to Hawaii and the official state insect. This species numbers have been declining and a study by UH graduate student Colby Maeda suggests that habitat destruction…

Time: Wednesday, 11:03 a.m. Location: Haliimaile Distilling Company Makawao, Maui Photographer:  David Croxford Ryan Mabbutt makes sure labels are applied straight and clean to bottles of Pau Maui Vodka. Haliimaile Distilling Co. makes rum, gin, whiskey and vodka – vodka being…