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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, October 25, 2009

Share your family's favorite photos here


By Treena Shapiro
Assistant Features Editor

Last week in Ohana, you got to see photos of my children at a pool in Waikíkí.

Today, the Ohana Family Album stars Features Editor Elizabeth Kieszkowski's granddaughter.

Cute, yeah?

Journalists like to chronicle things, and I assure you the Advertiser Staff has enough family photos to keep us going indefinitely.

But, adorable as we think our children are, we're not so much biased as we are curious about what happened to all the Family Album submissions, which ground to a halt while I was on vacation at the beginning of the month. If you missed me, you really shouldn't take it out on your beautiful relatives. You all still like your families, don't you?

The Family Album space on this page is meant to showcase what you want to share. Your family. Your favorite photos. Your special moments: weddings, anniversaries, graduations, reunions, celebrations or any split second when you managed to capture an image you love so much you want the world to see it. If it's a wholesome family photo, and it's in focus, we want to take a look.

The Ohana section is for families. Columnists on the page strive to offer something you can relate to, or at least laugh about, along with advice that will make you think, regardless of whether you want to follow it or reject it.

Feel free to let us know what you'd like to see here, or better yet, show us — preferably with high-quality photos suitable for reproduction in the newspaper.

This is advice I think you should follow because I'm not joking about being able to keep printing staff photos. I keep buying one external hard drive after another because I can't stand deleting photos of my children. Insane? Perhaps. But I have colleagues who are similarly afflicted although their storage may vary.

But we can look at our photos whenever we want. Family Album is for you, not for us (although we love looking at the photos).

Finish reading, because you need the address, but then hunt through your personal photos, pick one you want to see published and send it in, along with a brief description that identifies everyone in the photo, tells us who took it, and most importantly, what makes it special. We'll also need contact information to verify the information, but don't worry, that's not for publication.

You can e-mail high-resolution photos to hnlart@gmail.com or you can mail prints to Family Album c/o The Honolulu Advertiser, Island Life Section, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Please don't send your only copy, though, because photos won't be returned.