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Results for the 2015 Whitewater Photography Competition.

WWPC Finals!

Semi-Final Results

Semi-Finals

Round 3 Results

Round 3

Round 2 Results

Round 2

Wildcard Round

Round One 1/2 Results

Round One Results

Round One 1/2

Round One

The Entries

AT & IR with prizes!

Third Annual Whitewater Photography Comp

2016 Whitewater Calendar

Norway Trekking 4

Sony 35 1.8 vs Sony 28 f/2

Norway Trekking 3

South Kaweah Canyon Loop

Flashlight 1 FL

Pentax 28mm f/3.5 review

Sony FE 28mm f/2 take two.

Review: Sony FE 28mm f/2

Norway Trekking 2

Norway Trekking

Middle Verzasca, Switzerland

Egua, Italy

Gronda, Italy

Brandenburger Ache

Celestial Falls

White & Little White

Eagle Creek, Oregon

McKenzie River - Sahalie & Koosah

Testing PFD Rescue Belts

Corsican Climax

New Nomad

Codi River - Corsica.

Sven Lämmler - Site Zed

Return to the California Heat

Strange thing in Sony land

Old Nikons, Norway

AT Hercules Review Conclusion

Upper Cherry X3

Italia

Cherry Sundae

South Kings

More Corsica

April Upper Cherry

Cali

Corsica

Samyang 12mm Return

Prijon

UMK

Lost Kayaks

Fixed Tuolumne Photos

Water & No Water

Below French Meadow

Down Time

135mm love

Clendenning Creek

New Year, New Wallpaper

New Year

USFS Catch 22

AT Hercules

Decline

MindShift Adventure Bags

Measuring Volume

Flash & the A6000

Rotomolding Outfitting

Back with B&W

Reformat & Recent Shots

Mexico Wallpaper

It's go time.

V-Slide

Summer in the Kaweah

Strange Business

Lens v Lens

Slate Creek

Sun Stars

Snow Branch

3rd and 4th

Back to the beginning

Consolation

The Winner!

Final Round

Round 4 Results

Round 4

Round 3 Results

Round 3

Round 2 Results

Round 2

Wildcard Results

Wildcards

Round One Results

Round One

All In

First Fourteen

Pushing Bottons

2nd Annual Photo Comp

GoPro Covers

Guidebook

Rain & Diversions

The Coast & Sony Zeiss

BC Updates

Homer's Odyessy

Tutorial Update

Recent Reads

Shasta Ranch

Morning Light

Dry Shasta

Corse II

Corsica

Leave us the misery

Team Strudel

New In Print

Cull

A7: Just the right size.

L'Île de Beauté

Thanksgiving tradition

Backpack testing

Trolling for clicks.

Just once

Back to the A7

Seasons

Classics

Df

Metabones Speedbooster

Halloween

Salto Alerces

Rio Futaleufu

Rio Baker

Journey to the Baker

Rio Gol Gol

Rio Cochamo

Cochamo Valley

more Chile

A-7

Chile

Reunited

The mystery

Rio Salado

Argentina

Fuefukigawa

Free?

Gear Attrition.

Imperfection is Beautiful

PPP

Moving!

The Winner!

Final Round

The Finalists

Semi-Finals

Advancing to Semis

United

Quarter Finals

We'll be back.

Sweet Sixteen

Advancing Wild Cards

Waiting

Wild Cards

Round One Results

March Madness

Last Four Spots

Second Fourteen

First Fourteen

Photo Championship

Far Nor Cal

Through the roof

Reality

LA-EA1

Corrected

Sierra River Scenery

Unnatural

Fresh

Abandoned

System

Sahalie Wallpaper

Back in the office

Out of the office

The Constant Change

Heading North

Subtle Details

Camera Gear List

Argentina!

Illinois/Stoked

Lifestyle wallpaper

NEX-5r updates

FM2

Hansel

South Feather misc

Sigma 19mm Review

Running Free

Two words

Right Wrong Remix

Astral Brewer

Diane's October WP

Dragon Tree

Follow your head

Sorting, sorting

Breaking the Rules

RSS Feed

Fantasy Slide

Thomas's B-day

South Fork Feather

The right wrong

Birthday wallpaper

Calendar/D600

Scenery & Stuff

Tools

D600

A99 commentary

Fixing links

Out of Town

Stikine Wallpaper

Camping

Urban Moon

NEX-5R

Texture

2013 Calendar not quite

Any camera

2013 Calendar

Mighty Klamath

Kyotsu Wallpaper

Ligare

Spin

Green again

Captain Challenge

Drytop Test Challenge

The Leaves

Capitol Moonrise

Colorado Captain

Flying Squirrel

Green Wallpaper

lifestyle

no name

a different side

upgrade path

4th of July

NF Moke

Dropping In

At the river

Stikine Wallpaper

Camping

Fader

Shangri-la wallpaper

Progression 2

Progression

Dinkey Rok Wallpaper

Lower Deer Creek

Deer Wallpaper

Into the unkown

almost

FWT + Yuba Gap

Dinkey Wallpaper

Black and not quite

Snowy Box Canyon

UMC Wallpaper

Storm Clouds

Sutter Buttes

Flying wallpaper

Barking Dog

Talung Wallpaper

French tutorials

NEX-5N Firmware

Wooley Creek Wallpaper

Common Sense

The Longest Road

Siang Dreams

little city

subtle

Reflections

2/13 Wallpaper

Clear Creek

2/7 updates

Taylor UMC Wallpaper

More Shasta

Four Deaths

Tamron 17-50

Piaxtla Wallpaper

In Color

B&W Mix up

Nikkor 24-70

Siang Wallpaper

Smith Pano

NF Smith Wallpaper

Stars Wallpaper

rain!

30

Mistletoe

Jonas Wallpaper

The Future

Spirit of Adventure

Lunar Ghost

Lunar Eclipse

Cody Wallpaper

Watershed

Wallpaper, other.

NF Wallpaper

Behind the scenes

For Sale

Drew Wallpaper

Thigh Hooks

85mm f/1.4

Oakland

Jackson Wallpaper

Headed Home

Rwenzori Four

Elena Hut

Werner Wallpaper

Bujuku Hut

The Green

Tied for First

Rwenzori One

South East 2

Kokatat Wallpaper

South East 1

Moonscape

Centennial

Not Davis

Davis

Safari

Red Barn

Pit River

Clean Water

Overnight Gear

Itunda

Dead Dutchman

Bujagali

BRG

Talung 3

Talung 2

Night & Misc

135 DC 2

135 DC

Talung

82 updates

Camping Wallpaper

Quote & Updates

Scott Valley

Backpacking

DPP Beta

Wallpaper

Japan Diaries

Dark Side

Rapid Mag

72

UCC

TS Q&A

EFK TS

Japan 3

Japan 2

Fantasy

65

South Silver

Japan 1

Seasonal Update

70-300VR

4th of July

TS Loop

BK

NFMF

300mm f/4.5

Gay Wave

52mm f/2 AI

53

Cowbell

51

Pakistan 2

Mill

Big secret

50mm AF-D

Silver Fork

Pakistan

#44

Back

#42

Teesta Four

Sony 16mm f/2.8

The road

Fishing

Silver Creek

Lobster Pot 2

Lobster Pot

A great paddler?

Kern River Fest

Jason Craig

Sunday

Teesta Three

The Wave

Teesta Two

Teesta One

Deer Creek

UMC T/S

Rainy Days

Bear River TS

What's in an edit?

Siang River

T/S Webber

Shot o the day

Change

Squaw Valley Creek

North Fork Cosumnes

Nikkor 28mm f/2

Random

Updated Tutorial #2

Tilt/Shift

Siang

Panning shot

New River Update

24mm 2.8

Weaverville Stars

Two lens reviews

Night Photography

Stars at Castle Lake

Going with it.

Lohit image

First

 
The Third Annual Whitewater Photography Competition presented by Adventure Technology.

Thanks to Gareth Tate and Adventure Technology who will award a paddle of choice to the champion.

Immersion Research also has some love for the competition with a pair of Tangerine Guide Shorts and Supafly Zinger Shorts.

The Final Results for the 2015 Whitewater Photography Competition. Yes 2015, sorry it carried over into 2016. We're going to start earlier this fall if I have the free time.

Contestant B
 
 
Darin: It's interesting to judge all four images together. In my eye they look incredibly similar as far as color goes. In the first image the red boat really pops, but it's a rapid already used by the contestant in an earlier round. I like the vertical shot but not so much water in the foreground. although the layers of trees in the fog are great. The third image is nice, but the trees on the side of the Soca are busy and kind of an ugly brown, I had the same problem when I was there. I'd like to see a tighter crop of it. The final image is just fantastic, yet I do like it more with the foreground rock cropped out. In a way it frames the image, yet is distracting.

Clay: B - has the diversity and color range I appreciate.  The dark grey slide with yellow-green accent left with red boat, the foggy SE looking spring boof with yellow boat, the New Zealand like blue water in the group boulder field shot then the more vertical nor-cal looking RED boat into blue water - a drop I haven’t seen before.. This is one incredible combination and the first shot - while near perfect, falls away as I investigate the others to try to figure out what river / what country / why haven’t I seen this?  Great collection and only one less interesting shots - the group one.  I like colors and kayak action and this group delivers in both categories.

VS

Contestant G
 
 
Darin: All of contestant B's images are on overcast days and all of B's are sunny days. I think that's a large part of what makes me like these images more. Personally I see more of a mix of color in these four. The first image kind of upsets me, because it's of me and I was trying to get some unique angles that day and didn't come away with any good images. I love the canyon and rock wall texture on the second. The green paddling gear is a nice accent to the brown walls. The Stikine image, is my least favorite of these, but I like it more than B's Soca River shot. It gets the emotion of the place - it's a huge relief to not be getting hammered on the wall at this point. As for the last image the only thing that surprises me is that JJ (in the background) still has his cloths on. Overall I prefer this four pack of images because it feels like more variety, where all of B's images are shot head on.

Clay: G opens with this amazon yellow boat into tight Cali granite… I think it’s just a river left view of super-boof on San Juaquin but the rocky framing makes it unusual and adds intrigue.  Unfortunately the next shots ad more brown to the arrangement.  While that other Cali shot shines with the red boat, safety and photographer on the rock - all in bright colors that stand out against the rock, the Stikine shot and that desert-canyon .. while including really fascinating rock texture with a nice bright boat to contrast, the action doesn’t overshadow the more monochrome overall visual plate.  So while each shot is very good, as a whole they lack the kayaking complexity and visual variety of B.

B (Harald Glanz) advances over G (Jim Janney) with a vote from Clay and the popular vote! Congratulations for Harald Glanz for coming up with enough images to win again - a true accomplishment to do back to back. He walks away with an Adventure Technology paddle of choice and $42.50 in cash, just enough for a beer and hot dog at home in Austria. Jim Janney goes home in second with $25.5 and a pair of shorts. Daniel Brasuell came in third and gets $17 and a pair of shorts too.  Thanks to Adventure Technology and Immersion Research for providing great prizes, and to all who have taken part, voted or just watched. Also thanks to everyone who paid their entry fee and a big middle finger to those who didn't, or paid in Canadian.




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