Please Vote for your Favorite Image.

Chad Bridwell
Chris Boar
Jan Klier
Terry Lang
Mat Hayward
Dennis Dow
Dennis Dow
James Tosch
Chris Boar
Chris Boar
Chad Bridwell
Dennis Dow
Jan Klier
James Tosch
Terry Lang
James Tosch
Chad Bridwell
Mat Hayward
Terry Lang
Mat Hayward
Jan Klier
On Sunday April 20, 2008 myself, James Tosch of Kits Camera along with his beautiful girlfriend Sandhya, retired Navy Photographer Terry Lang, Flickr afficianado and serious strobist Jan Klier (who is the first guy I met that made me feel like I don't have enough toys....he has some serious gear let me tell you!), wedding photographer Chris Boar and his very charming family, the director of US Operations for Fotolia.com Chad Bridwell along with the ever talented, super nice and highly competitive Dennis Dow who is also a photographer at the Woodland Park Zoo. I say he is competitive as at one point a Dahl's Porpoise was jumping in front of the boat. I had just composed my shot, I could see his sillhouette under the water, I knew he was just about to make a spectacular jump...one second left, my finger began to apply pressure to the shutter when WHAM!!! Dennis sideswipes me, knocks me on my tail and grabs the shot for himself. He claims it was an accident, but I know better :) With Dennis was Sue who is one of those people you meet and you instantly like. Always armed with a great smile and standing by her man holding his second camera ready to swap it out for him in an instant (they do make a great team).

We all met up with Captain Ivan and the very funny, very knowlegable naturalist John Boyd (JB) on the Western Prince II . We embarked on a 4 hour tour of the Puget Sound in search of wildlife as part of a photography challenge. Captain Ivan in addition to being a Whale Tour Boat operator is a photographer armed with a Canon 40D and a Canon 100-400mm lens. Ivan being a photographer was great because after he would find the animals he would position the boat in the best possible way to enhance the light and subsequently, our shots. He is out on the sound nearly every day and gets some incredible photographs which he posts on his blog along with great stories of his adventures. Be sure to check his blog regularily here.

Unlike the last challenge I hosted in Seattle where we were limited to the use of a 50mm lens, this time there were no limitations other than the photographers imagination. Within a 24 Hour period any photo's taken on Friday Harbor or Anacortes were elibible to be entered. Below you will see the entries. If you would be kind enough to take a look at them and to vote for your favorite image it would be very much appreciated. The photograph with the most votes will be printed on a 16X24 Standout Mount and delivered to the talented photographer responsible for shooting it.

We want to get a lot of votes from as many people as possible so please share a link to this blog with your friends! The box to vote is to the right of your screen. As always, comments are very much appreciated.

Thank You!

P.S. I've posted some links to images of individuals mentioned above as well as links to their web pages...the following are links to images of the shooters I wasn't able to fit above. Thanks again to everyone who made the trip and to you for voting!

Chad Bridwell
Dennis & Sue
Ivan & JB
Jan Klier
Terry Lang
James & Sandhya