Hilo alumnus receives award from Smithsonian
Bruce Omori, co-owner of Extreme Exposure Fine Art Gallery in Hilo, received the Windland Smith Rice International Award for his lava photo titled “Ribbons in the Sky,” which is displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s annual exhibition which opened on October 24, 2015.
Omori traveled to Washington, DC to be honored with all the other recipients in a formal ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History on November 12, 2015. His winning photograph was selected from almost 20,000 submissions from photographers in 46 countries.
Omori’s winning entry in the Art in Nature category, “Ribbons in the Sky,” is a wild airborne abstract created by a huge lava bubble explosion at the ocean entry.
University of Hawai‘i Alumni