Asian American Journalists Association Photographers
Fellow AAJA photog Joyce Lin blogs about her climbing accident recently that she is recovering from. The above frame-grab is from video shot in June as she does her best to sound a conch shell.
Lin said although she’s alive her camera isn’t. The body, battery and even memory card died in the fall. Lin said the dead camera luckily was her backup camera. But she’s pretty tough as she’s blogging with broken wrists. *ouch!*
Some photos from Lia Chang of the 2006 Hawaii convention.
1st Place: Tue Nam Ton
2nd Place: Joyce Lin
3rd Place: Stella Lee
4th Place: Mike Schennum
5th Place: Kristina Sangsaha
6th Place: David Kranz
7th Place: Ray Wong
8th Place: Jennifer Dronkers
PHOTOSHOOTOUT
The theme of this year’s Annual PhotoShootOut Competition “HIT THE BEACH!” is based on the belief that anything goes on the beach. The first-place winner’s name will be inscribed on the national Dith Pran Trophy, named in honor of the AAJA member and New York Times photographer Dith Pran, whose life as a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust was portrayed in the movie “The Killing Fields.”
Judges:
Dennis Oda, Honolulu Star-Bulletin staff photographer
Eugene Tanner, Orange County Register photo editor and former Honolulu Advertiser staff photographer
Greg Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser staff photographer
There were $2,000 in photo prizes.
First place receives a Canon digital camera donated from Canon and perpetual trophy with winners name on it.
Tue Nam Ton, Contra Costa Times staff photographer. (five photos)
Second place receives ThinkTankPhoto.com camera bag donated by ThinkThankPhoto.
Joyce Lin , UCLA photo student (four photos)
Third place receives a 2 GB Compact Flash card donated by Sandisk.
Stella Lee, Ohio University photo student (four photos)
Fourth Place: 2 GB compact flash card donated by Sandisk.
Mike Schennum, Arizona Republic staff photographer (one photo)
Fifth place: 2 GB compact flash card donated by Sandisk.
Kristina Sangsaha, San Francisco State University photo student
(one photo)
Sixth place: Nikon backpack.
David Kranz, University of California at Berkeley photo student (one photo)
Seventh place: Dinner with Dith Pran, Ray Wong, Middle Tennessee State University (three photos)
Eighth place: Dinner with Dith Pran, Jennifer Dronkers, Ohio University photo student. (two photo)
One of our stops was Waimea Bay where the surf was flat.
We also stopped in Kahuku at Romy’s Kahuku Prawns and Shrimp for lunch and met a few other AAJA’ers there. Sorry, no photos, my hands were covered with sauce from shucking shrimp. I recommend the sweet & spicy shrimp over the garlic & butter as it’s so ono.
A gallery of images.
A late afteroon visit to the Arizona Memorial visitors center means we missed the free tour out to the memorial. Here the USS Missouri and Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. One symbolizing where WWII ended (with the signing of the surrender aboard) and the other where it began (with the attack on Dec. 7, 1941).
Susan takes aim with an anti-aircraft gun at the USS Bowfin submarine museum.
Tony, Karen and Corky take a breather after all that food.
While at Ala Moana Shopping Center the day before Karen and I searched a used book section for Michael’s National Geographic cover story on Marco Polo and I found it in a stack. So I bought it and had him autograph it. The book Marco Polo : A Photographer’s Journey has even more photos taken by Michael and was sold at our silent auction.
A little waterfall in the middle of downtown Honolulu next to the Hawaii Theater. More photos to come later as I try to edit through stuff.
Photographers on Waikiki Beach after a catamaran cruise. Barry, Dennis, Baron and Paul.
A shot of our group after the catamaran cruise off Waikiki.
Leah and myself as we get ready to head into the Taste of Honolulu. For $4 you get entry then buy script to eat and eat and eat. Our Dennis imitation with our mouths open, or maybe we’re just hungry.
A gallery of photos. And I still have video to come! If the vacation shots bore you come back next week.
Paul gets lei’d at the convention. Click on the image above for movie.
Darrell and Corky work on setting up the photos for sale at the silent auction. We had to redo the set-up over half a dozen times as we had to make way for more photos, we lost a table to a sponsor, we had to move a sponsor’s banner around, had to clear a fire lane, yadda, yadda, yadda.