Photo Gallery 
Here's a sampling of recent photos taken by Advertiser photographers. Click the image for a full view.
• Hawaiian Airlines Girls State Basketball Championships photo gallery
• Last week's photo gallery
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Roman Malaki, left, stepped carefully before launching a candle-lit lantern into the waters off Ala Moana Beach Park during the annual lantern-floating ceremony presented by Shinnyo-En Hawaii. Tulitoa Teo, right, waits for the signal. Both are members of the Waipahu Polynesian Club. See story.
Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Renise Reyes, a senior airman with the Hawai'i Air National Guard who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, savored Mother's Day at her grandmother's house with her daughters, clockwise from top: Vanessa, 9, Shaianne, 6, and Alexis, 3. See story.
Bruce Asato • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Salutes are rendered by a joint service honor guard as a transfer case containing the remains of one of the five U.S. servicemen recovered in Vietnam are returned to U.S. soil at Hickan Air Force Base. The remains were taken to the Army's Central Identification Laboratory for identification.
Rchard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Noah Youtz, 3, got to take a poke at a skeleton on display at the Hale Pulama Mau auditorium during open house by the Kuakini Health System. That's Dad, David Youtz, keeping Noah out of harm's way.
Bruce Asato • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Three- to five-foot waves and 15-mph winds benefit a flock of sailboarders enjoying the water below Diamond Head lookout.
Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Angela Woods of Hawai'i Kai steers Bella Roja during the Western Riding Open Pattern II event at the Western Horse Show at Circle Z Ranch in Waimanalo. The show was presented by the Hawaii Horse Show Association, an organization of volunteers that strives to educate its members, promote the humane care of horses and present horse shows on O'ahu each year.
Eugene Tanner • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Eliana Hanan, 7, of Kapolei sings the Israeli anthem at a festival in a park near Honolulu Hale in downtown Honolulu that marked and celebrated the 55th anniversary of the founding of Israel.
Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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Eleven-year-old Daria Woods of Honolulu tried to steady a boogie board for her 8-year-old brother Britt afternoon at Ala Moana Beach Park.
Rebecca Breyer • The Honolulu Advertiser |
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As the sun sets on another warm day at Waikiki Beach, Joseph E. Bourke performs on his violin for visitors and residents passing by.
Jeff Widener • The Honolulu Advertiser |
