A Photo Chick's Journal in Paradise

The Eva-Dry Mini Dehumidifier

Living in Hawai'i can be beautiful and tricky! The tricky would be pertaining to our humidity and moisture here which can affect our equipment and hair (well, for some people)!

I use this little REUSABLE dehumidifier which I found on-line:

I store it mainly with all my hard drives and important photos!

I love that you can reuse it by recharging it with it's handy dandy electrical plug! 

Like I said earlier, I ordered mine on-line. And then after I received my shipment found that also LONGS has them for sale as well!

Fortunately, this Eva-Dry  could be a really good solution for your humidity issues with technology.

Unfortunately, I don't think it will do any thing for your hair if you have crazy humidity hair issues. :) 

Hokuli'i Tip #2: Quality of OLD CD/DVD Holders

While looking through and organizing my archive of old CDs/DVDs, I was soooo bummed to discover that a lot of them had this yucky film over the readable side of the disc!

The discs that I'm pertaining too are older discs that I burned starting in 2001.  I was told to make sure you burn your stuff onto a reliable CD/DVD. Which I did. And then I carefully stored them in what I thought at the time was an archival holder. I thought this because the manufacturer said it was!!!

And I also used this type:

Since I discovered the unfortunate consequence of these holders, I started using Tyvek holders a while back.  Even better, I recently joined Greener Photography and completely switched to these wonderful earth friendly holders by Rebinder!!!

I love Rebinder! I was so happy to find out that they're also based in the Northwest, my former home!

If you love seeing your old images or files, may I suggest you start storing or transfer your CD and DVDs to a more reliable CD/DVD holder? Check to make sure that your older holders, circa 2000, are holding up and not secretly damaging your data!  

 

Hawai'i Pacific Photo

I am fortunate to work with Hawai'i Pacific Photo in Honolulu.  This is my photo lab of choice and have been doing business with them since I started Hokuli'i Images in 1999.

HPP is located at 2065 S. Beretania Street.  

The Lab has been so kind as to allow my clients to pick up their Proof Catalogs and DVDs from them.  

When you go to the lab you're greeted by one of these two friendly faces:

Olivia (who is also my gal pal &  head Customer Service Diva) and Vitaly are ready to assist you. Just let them know you're a client of Hokuli'i Images, give them your name and the next thing you know you'll have your images in hand!

Because of their premier printing and reproduction abilities, I trust HPP to do all my clients reprints and enlargements.  I kindly ask that before you make that trip over to Costco or Long's Photo Labs that you'll consider having your prints done at Hawai'i Pacific Photo.  Quality goes a long way!  And you'd also be supporting a small local business.  

Please visit www.hppdigital.com for more information on location, hours, and services!

MAHALO!!!