Photo Gallery 
Here's a sampling of recent photos taken by Advertiser photographers. Click the image for a full view.
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A jump master signals Marine and Navy paratroopers aboard a Hawai'i Air National Guard C-130 transport plane high above Wahiawa. Joint training is nothing new for Island-based service members. Below, Guard members Maj. Woody Woodrow, Maj. Charles Anthony and Capt. Kathy Higgins are briefed by Marine jump masters. See story.
Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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A bodyboarder and a swimmer nearly collided in the choppy waters at Sandy Beach.
Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Window washer Tupou Maile helps prepare the Hawai'i Convention Center for a better year. Center officials expect 94,300 out-of-state conventioneers this year, compared with 52,000 in 2001. That would still fall short of the 128,525 out-of-state attendees in 2000. See story.
Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Ruth Dawson of Honolulu helped Troy Foster of Kapolei light his candle during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration at the Civic Center. About 100 people attended the event, which also included the ringing of the Nagasaki Peace Bell. King preached nonviolence in the quest for equality.
Eugene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Hawaiian Airlines employee Darcelle Chan shared a moment with an elephant seal moments before the young sea mammal was flown to San Francisco. A male elephant seal was rescued on the Kona coast of the Big Island after somehow making its way to Hawai'i. Elephant seals rarely are found in Hawaiian waters and National Marine Fisheries Service officials believe that this one came from the California area.
Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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A leaf floats down a gushing stream of water along Bishop Street following heavy rains that doused much of the Islands.
Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
