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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2004-01-31

Who won?
Surprise, surprise. We have a winner of the 2003 SportsShooter.com Clip Contest.

By Grover Sanschagrin, SportsShooter.com

Photo by Brian Davies

These are all of Brian's winning images in the 2003 SportsShooter.com Clip Contest.

The 2003 SportsShooter.com clip contest is finally over, and the race for Photographer of the Year came right down to the wire. It's been a close race, as anyone following the leaderboard will tell you. Speculation was high, and it was a battle to the finish. But today, thanks to super-fast computers that are able to perform billions of calculations per nano-second, I am please to say that we finally have our answer.

George W. Bush!

Ok, just kidding. Our servers aren't located in Florida.

And OK, the race wasn't close at all. Brian Davies grabbed the lead in August, when he won five awards in a single month. And after we checked the server for 'hanging chads', we watched as he kept his insane lead for the rest of the year.

Congratulations to SportsShooter.com Photographer of the Year, (surprise, surprise) Brian Davies.

We've learned a lot in the past year, and we've received a huge amount of feedback. So, with that in mind, it's my job to announce one important change that we've implemented for our clip contest, now in its second year.

Shot or Initially Published
The rules have changed so that photographers who can't show images until they have been published by their employer/client - often weeks/months later, can now submit images after they've been published for the first time. The key phrase here is "for the first time". Once it is published, the clock starts ticking.

Here's an example:

In January, you shoot a really nice portrait of super-world-famous athlete "Bill Yon Air" for a big named and wildly successful magazine. This is an exclusive! No photographer has ever shot Bill Yon Air since he was cleared of all charges! You are happy! This is a TOP SECRET SHOOT! But the magazine says they are going to run the picture in March - and you can't tell anyone about this until after it's been published and your image ends up on the cover, selling more copies than ever before!

Not a problem here in SportsShooter Land - you can enter that image in the March contest. Of course, you could decide that the SportsShooter.com clip contest is more important than the wishes of your boss/client, and enter the image in the January contest - but this might not be in your best interest. However, if you do enter it in the January contest, you can't enter it once it has been published for the first time, since you can only enter an image in the contest once.

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Thanks to Canon (and Dave Metz) for their energetic support of our community, and this contest. Their generosity enables us to give a large box of Canon goodies to the winner of the "Shooter's Choice" award each month, not to mention one hell of a sweet camera for the end-of-year grand prize - a Canon EOS-1d.

In our first year, SportsShooter.com members entered 7,968 images and selected 156 of them as winners. Congratulations to all.

The contest's Year 2 starts today. Let's all do our best to make sure that Davies works a little harder this year, shall we?

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