Got a great Hawaii photo? You could win a pound of 100% Kona coffee.

by: Derek Paiva
posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Have you seen our HawaiiMagazine.com Reader Photo of the Week winners page lately?

If you want to see how much our reader ohana (family) loves Hawaii—and we mean really loves Hawaii—check out our extraordinary collection of winning photos right now, by clicking here.

Go ahead, we’ll wait. We’re pretty proud of our reader photos.

Two years after first asking our readers to send us their favorite photos of the places, people, scenery and, really, any subject capturing life in the Islands, we still get dozens of snapshots in our e-mailbox every week. In all, more than 2,000 photos over the last 765 days.

We’ve never awarded a prize to each week’s winner. Just a promise that we’d share their favorite Hawaii photo with other HawaiiMagazine.com readers, designate it the singularly coolest photo we’d seen all week, and give it a prominent place on our website forever.

Beginning this month, there’s another incentive for you to enter your Hawaii photo: A one-pound bag of 100% Kona-grown coffee from Hula Daddy for each week’s HawaiiMagazine.com Reader Photo of the Week winner.

Hula Daddy Kona Coffee is familiar to HAWAII Magazine subscribers who read the January/February 2010 issue feature story “Kona in a Cup.” Owners Lee Paterson and Karen Jue’s farm in the heart of the Big Island of Hawaii’s Kona Coffee Belt has produced some of the most award-winning coffee roasts on the Island since 2002. In 2008, Hula Daddy’s “Kona Sweet”—one of several coffee varieties the company roasts—scored 97 out of 100 from industry buying guide Coffee Review. Only five other coffees worldwide have ever achieved that score.

We’ve been longtime fans of Lee and Karen’s crisp, flavorful 100% Kona-grown Hula Daddy coffees. We’re grateful to Hula Daddy for rewarding our Reader Photo of the Week winners with such a great prize.

Want to enter a Hawaii photo for P.O.T.W. consideration?

Photo subjects can be anything you want—people, places, things—but must be shot in Hawaii. Contest rules, more info and the e-mail address to send us your photos are on HawaiiMagazine.com's Reader Photo of the Week page. Just click here.

More good news? All P.O.T.W. entries and weekly winners may be resubmitted for consideration in our 2011 HAWAII Magazine Annual Photo Contest. Rules, prizes and more information on that contest will be published in HAWAII Magazine’s May/June 2010 issue, and here on HawaiiMagazine.com in May.

Good luck to all of our HawaiiMagazine.com Reader Photo of the Week entrants! We look forward to seeing even more of your amazing photos and the stories behind them.

Photos (clockwise from top, left): Linda Kolch Elkins, Rudy Calpo, Mark Singer, Rudy Calpo