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
Category: Macro Traditional
 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 |
Category: Macro Unrestricted
 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 |
(coming soon)
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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in underwater imaging.
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