Bonaire Digital Shootout 2005: Daily Webcast 
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Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
Event Dates: 23 Jul 2005 - 30 Jul 2005
Event Venue: Bonaire Digital Shootout 2005
Welcome to the Bonaire Digital Shootout 2005 daily webcast, by Eric Cheng
Digital Shootout Photo Contest
Join us for the Digital Shootout 2006 in Palau, April 1-9, 2006! If you're interested, please contact Dan Baldocchi via e-mail at , or by phone at 773-308-5673.
On Friday, July 29th, Jim Watt, Berkley White, Dan Baldocchi and I spent over nine hours in the classroom today judging contest entries and preparing the final presentation slideshows. There were so many good entries that it was extremely difficult to select winners!
Berkley loves to say at these events, "All of you are winners; some are just more prize-challenged than others are."
The Digital Shootout photo contest works in an interesting way: participants can win place more than once, but can only go home with one prize. If a prior winner places again, he or she has a choice: keep the old prize or accept the new one. The discarded prizes are then auctioned off at the end of the ceremony, which can lead to some interesting twists -- and, a rowdy crowd. :)
During the course of the evening, there were over $10,000 in prizes awarded. Prizes were donated by Kararu Liveaboards, Backscatter, Sea & Sea/TUSA, Oceanic, Light & Motion, Optiquatics, Stahlsac, Ultralight Control Systems, Aqualung, Aeris, Reefnet, SeaVision, Eric Cheng, and James Watt.
Congratulations to you all! And now, on to the winning entries...
Best of Show
 Best of Show: Jim Platz |
Category: Traditional Compact Camera
 Traditional Compact - 1st Place: Ken Sutherland |
 Traditional Compact - 2nd Place: David Mizrahi |
 Traditional Compact - 3rd Place: David Mizrahi |
 Traditional Compact - Honorable Mention: Alice Riley |
 Traditional Compact - Honorable Mention: Val Jungjohann |
Category: Traditional Macro
 Traditional Macro - 1st Place: Greg Bang |
 Traditional Macro - 2nd Place: Mike Carey |
 Traditional Macro - 3rd Place: John Byrnes |
 Traditional Macro - Honorable Mention: Greg Bang |
 Traditional Macro - Honorable Mention: Will Chen |
Category: Unrestricted Macro
 Unrestricted Macro - 1st Place: Pauline Muscat |
 Unrestricted Macro - 2nd Place: Greg Bang |
 Unrestricted Macro - 3rd Place: Tovia/Yakobov |
 Unrestricted Macro - Honorable Mention: Tovia/Yakobov |
 Unrestricted Macro - Honorable Mention: Ryan Zent |
 Unrestricted Macro - Honorable Mention: Mark Melnick |
Category: Traditional Wide Angle
 Traditional Wide Angle - 1st Place: Mark Melnick |
 Traditional Wide Angle - 2nd Place: Jim Platz |
 Traditional Wide Angle - 3rd Place: John Verhulst |
 Traditional Wide Angle - Honorable Mention: Jeff Kelly |
 Traditional Wide Angle - Honorable Mention: Erik Moon |
Category: Unrestricted Wide Angle
 Unrestricted Wide Angle - 1st Place: Jim Platz |
 Unrestricted Wide Angle - 2nd Place: Victor Cattan |
 Unrestricted Wide Angle - 3rd Place: Will Chen |
 Unrestricted Wide Angle - Honorable Mention: Pauline Muscat |
 Unrestricted Wide Angle - Honorable Mention: Greg Bang |
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Comment(s):The ‘DID YOU KNOW...GUESS WHO IT IS’ insert question was way too easy. The photo of those rippling biceps was a dead give away of Berkeley’s former football career. Maybe you guys can take up a collection and get him some new booties. The picture of him going down the ladder (naked toes and all) still hurts my eyes.
Posted by dmoss on 07/28 at 02:04 PMWow- Pauline’s underwater photo looking up at the dive boat bow is excellent!
James
Posted by James Wiseman on 07/28 at 02:28 PMI so wish I was there! Great shots, looks like a lot a fun....
Posted by Reefkeep on 07/28 at 05:37 PMWe have the world’s best photographers all right here on one website and I am glad to be a part...if we could all be together for one meeting, we would definitely need a bigger island!! Great stuff here kids, keep up the good work....john
Posted by carib-blu on 07/29 at 05:46 PMp.s. thanks for the purple crown sea goddess Pauline!....have only seen one other here in cayman!Good find!
Posted by carib-blu on 07/29 at 05:54 PMthat group shot of everyone and their gear is probably a crooked TSA/AA baggage persons wet dream! no wonder we dont have a shootout in miami or san juan.
Posted by nitteo on 08/01 at 02:56 PM
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