Shootz! Quiet Moments Before The Holiday Season Kicks Into Full Gear

From the beaches to construction sites, sunrises to the annual Salvation Army Thanksgiving meal, Oahu was a picture of calm before the winter tourist storm.

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From the beaches to construction sites, sunrises to the annual Salvation Army Thanksgiving meal, Oahu was a picture of calm before the winter tourist storm.

A couple enjoys a mid morning walk through Ala Moana Park heading toward Magic Island. The surf in the background is beginning to show the signs of Winter on the South Shore when the weather systems cease to being any significant swells in. Photographed 11.26.24.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
A couple enjoys a mid morning walk through Ala Moana Park heading toward Magic Island. The surf is beginning to show the signs of winter on the South Shore, when the weather systems stop providing any significant swells and avid surfers head north. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The $18M Pedestrian walkway between the Ward area and Kewalo Basin is still in the final phases of being completed. Initial plans called for it to be finished in August however workers were still working on the walkway on Tuesday November 26th. Photographed 11.26.24.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The $18 million pedestrian walkway between the Ward area and Kewalo Basin is in the final phases of being completed. Initial plans called for it to be finished last August. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Football field at The Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex on the U.H. Campus, photographed between 4:15 am and 6:20am on November 27th, 2024 from Round Top Drive. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The football field at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex on the University of Hawaii Campus. Surprisingly, lights were on Wednesday at 4:15 a.m. Early Bird training? (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Views for Round Top drive showing University Avenue and King Street junction with minimal traffic, photographed between 4:15 am and 6:20am on November 27th, 2024. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
View from Round Top Drive of one of the busiest junctions on O’ahu at one of the quietest times of day — between 4:15 a.m. and 6:20 a.m. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Diamond Head bathed in Sunrise color at 6:20 am Wednesday November 27th photographed from Round Top Drive. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Diamond Head bathed in soft Sunrise color at 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, photographed from Round Top Drive. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The new Graduate Student Resident Facility at UH has been under construction since the October 2023 ground breaking ceremony. Completion is expected by Fall 2025. It’s a P3 project and the facility is being constructed by private partners with external financing and will be privately operated for UH students.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The new Graduate Student Resident Facility at UH has been under construction since its October 2023 groundbreaking ceremony. It is expected to be ready by fall. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The new Graduate Student Resident Facility at UH has been under construction since the October 2023 ground breaking ceremony. Completion is expected by Fall 2025. It’s a P3 project and the facility is being constructed by private partners with external financing and will be privately operated for UH students.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The UH grad student housing is a P3 project — a public private partnership — constructed by private partners with external financing. It also will be privately operated. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Salvation Army Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the community was held at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall on November 28th. Over 800 volunteers came together from all walks of life to assist in preparing, seating and feeding the more than 1500 attendees who enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner. Natasha Quinn, a UH student from Lake Forest, California served as a team leader to a group of servers who job it was to rotate through the aisles to pick up food plates and deliver them to hungry attendees.
The Salvation Army Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the community, held at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. Natasha Quinn, a UH student from Lake Forest, California, was one of 800 volunteers. Quinn served as team leader for servers whose job was to deliver plates of food to hungry attendees.
The Salvation Army Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the community was held at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall on November 28th. Over 800 volunteers came together from all walks of life to assist in preparing, seating and feeding the more than 1500 attendees who enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner. Captain David Aycock ceremonially delivers the ÒfirstÓ Turkey for carving, walking carefully through the more than 1500 attendees. David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
More than 1,500 attendees came to enjoy the Thanksgiving dinner. They watch as Capt. David Aycock ceremonially delivers the “first” Turkey for carving. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The Salvation Army Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the community was held at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall on November 28th. Over 800 volunteers came together from all walks of life to assist in preparing, seating and feeding the more than 1500 attendees who enjoyed the Thanksgiving dinner. Volunteers worked a prep line in the rear of the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall in order to deliver Thanksgiving Plates to those in attendance. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Volunteers work a prep line in the back of the exhibition hall, filling Thanksgiving plates. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Our living environment allows us to witness the rising and setting of the sun and the moon. Wonderful in itself, but even greater when the two appear within an hour or so of each other. Time lapse created from video shot at Round Top Drive. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)

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