Duane Hamamura, for over three decades one of the most prominent photographers in the state, died suddenly Saturday evening at home of natural causes.

Hamamura, a lifelong Auburn resident, was 57 years old.

From the time he joined the staff of what then were the thrice-weekly Auburn Globe-News, Renton Record-Chronicle and Kent News-Journal newspapers in the mid 1970s and continuing through their subsequent reincarnations as the Valley Daily News, South County Journal and King County Journal, Hamamura could be found anywhere and everywhere around the Green River Valley.

The slide show is a collection of photographs Hamamura put together on his Facebook page as a small sample of his work.

More of his photographs can be viewed on his Facebook page.

Services are 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 5, at White River Buddhist Temple, 3625 Auburn Way North, Auburn, WA, 98002.