A service for Duane Hamamura, a prominent news, sports and freelance photographer in South King County who died Jan. 29, is 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 5, at White River Buddhist Temple, 3625 Auburn Way N., Auburn.

A 1971 graduate of Auburn High School who studied photography at Green River Community College, Hamamura was a longtime photographer at the Valley Daily News, where he was a perennial award-winning photographer, according to colleague Mark Klaas. Hamamura also worked as a photographer at the old Auburn Globe and as a photo technician for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

He was particularly known for his photographs of Thoroughbred horses at Emerald Downs in Auburn and before that at Longacres in Renton.

Sisters Joyce Hamamura and Sharon Harris and mother Ritsuko survive Hamamura.