Hawaii Photo Shooters

On Thursday November 13, at 6:00 p.m., Joy San Buenaventura and Susan Miyasaka will give a presentation on "Namibia, Africa!"

Joy and Susan share, " We joined a photo safari in Namibia, Africa. Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, its advantage for photographers is that animals will congregate around water holes where their images can be captured. We were fortunate to have Hougaarde as a photo tour guide who specialized in landscape photography. He directed us to the right locations and the right time to capture the red sand dunes of Soussusvlei. Our second photo tour guide Jandre specialized in wildlife. He and driver Kobus scouted the vast areas, looking for wildlife and we were fortunate to capture a tower of giraffes, a parade of elephants, a dazzle of zebras, and many more animals, including birds. Join us and we will share some of our images, as well as photography tips learned from our photo tour guides."

As a preview, you can go to this link to see Susan's slide show on Vimeo of her photo safari in Namibia: https://vimeo.com/1113431631?share=copy#t=0

The meeting will be a hybrid one at the Komohana Research & Extension Center (875 Komohana St., Hilo) .  The meeting place will be in the large conference room A-204: second floor, near the elevator. For the zoom link for the meeting please email Susan (sc_miyasaka@yahoo.com) by Wednesday November 12, to request the zoom link.

"Namibia, Africa" Images by Joy San Buenaventura and Susan Miyasaka

The November 2025 photo CHALLENGE theme is "Glass or Ceramics!"  

 Rules and Regs for this CHALLENGE: 

1.  You can submit up to 5 images taken in the past year with a theme of "Glass or Ceramics!" 

2. They cannot have won previous contests or been exhibited;

3. Images should be jpg files with a maximum of 1600 pixels in the longest dimension;

4. Titles will be file names; and

5. You can bring your images to the meeting on a thumb drive or email them to Susan (sc_miyasaka@outlook.com) by Wednesday November 12 at 4 p.m.  

What is a Challenge?

The purpose of a Photo Challenge is to share what we do, explain how we do it, and get to view others' works, ideas, and creativity without having to decide "which is best" or "which is most favored."  Each member will have one image of his/her choice uploaded to the club's website.