The Digital Shootout Bonaire 2008 and Wetpixel.com are proud to announce the winners of this year's shootout photo and video contest. If you haven't seen the video coverage of our week-long event, please click on over and check it out! You may also be interested in last year's winners.

58 participants competed in four still categories and a single video category, and winners won a variety of prizes from our generous sponsors, including dive travel, underwater camera housings, and more.

We'd like to congratulate all of the winners and contestants this year. As Berkley White says each year before announcing the winners, "We're all winners here. Some of us are just prize-challenged."

Best of Show 2008
The "Jim Watt" Award
John Muhilly

1st Place Macro Traditional Rusty Childress	2nd Place Macro Traditional Jody Elliott	3rd Place Macro Traditional Rusty Childress
Hon Mention Macro Traditional John Muhilly	Hon Mention Macro Traditional Ken Sutherland	Hon Mention Macro Traditional John Muhilly

1st Place Macro Unrestricted Rusty Childress	2nd Place Macro Unrestricted Erin Quigley	3rd Place Macro Unrestricted Jeff Williams
Hon Mention Macro Unrestricted Ron Lagerlof	Hon Mention Macro Unrestricted Allison Finch	Hon Mention Macro Unrestricted Philip Seys

1st Place Wide Traditional Joel Penner	2nd Place Wide Traditional John Muhilly	3rd Place Wide Traditional Randy Johnson
Hon Mention Wide Traditional Ken Sutherland	Hon Mention Wide Traditional Karen Honeycutt	Hon Mention Wide Traditional Gabriel Beyrent

1st Place Wide Unrestricted Joel Penner	2nd Place Wide Unrestricted Erin Quigley	3rd Place Wide Unrestricted Ken Sutherland
Hon Mention Wide Unrestricted Rusty Childress	Hon Mention Wide Unrestricted Erin Quigley

This year's photo contest judges included Berkley White (Backscatter), David Fleetham, and Eric Cheng (Wetpixel), plus Dan Baldocchi (Under Exposures) and Mary Lynn Price (DiveFilm) in the video categories.

The contest judges at work: choosing winners is always
an extremely difficult task (photo: Len Bucko)

Additional shootout staff included Daniel Brown, Len Bucko, Russ Sanoian (Backscatter), and Jim Decker (Backscatter).

Digital Shootout 2008 was hosted at the Divi Flamingo Resort in Bonaire.

The Digital Shootout Bonaire Class of 2008 [download 1024-px version]

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