• 34 of the best shots.
• Disc 1, mostly long lens work.
• Disc 2, mostly wideangle work.
• Disc 3, long lens work with a little wideangle thrown in at the end.

• 32 of the best shots.
• Short Lens, volume 1
• Long Lens, volume 2

• 2006 Kenmore Bowling, volume 1
• 2006 Kenmore Bowling, volume 2

I uploaded photos from June 4th, 2005, taken at Ft. Lewis Summer Games. These links will take you to www.ofoto.com, a file sharing service of Kodak.

• Ft. Lewis 'Greatest Hits' If for some reason you'd like an overview of the 33 'best shots' (my opinion) taken by me this day, here they are. Also, you can use this as a 'universal link' to the other albums, but it's very slow.
• 2005 Ft Lewis Games 0700-1450 cycling, soccer, cycling
• 2005 Ft. Lewis games, Cycling 0800-0915
• 2005 Ft. Lewis Games, cycling 0915-1030
• 2005 Summer Games Soccer 1030-1230
• 2005 Ft. Lewis Summer games, Soccer, Cycling 1230 - 1350
• 2005 Ft. Lewis SOWA, cycling 1435 - 1450
• 2005 Ft. Lewis Cycling Medals

I uploaded photos from June 5th, 2004, taken at Ft. Lewis Summer Games. These links will take you to www.ofoto.com, a file sharing service of Kodak.

• Ft. Lewis 'Greatest Hits' If for some reason you'd like an overview of the 28 'best shots' (my opinion) taken by me this day, here they are.
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1st Race, 15K
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 2nd Race, 5K
• Ft. Lewis Soccer, 1130 - 1315, West fields
• Ft. Lewis Soccer, 1315 - 1430, West fields
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1K race

• Ft. Lewis 'Greatest Hits' If for some reason you'd like an overview of the 50 'best shots' (my opinion) taken by me this day, here they are.
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, Tune-up Clinic, 1st Race, 1
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, Tune-up Clinic, 1st Race, Soccer
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1st Race, 2
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1K race, 1
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1K race, 2
• Ft. Lewis Cycling, 1K race, 3; medals
• Ft. Lewis Soccer, 1
• Ft. Lewis Soccer, 2
• Ft. Lewis Soccer, Cycling
• Ft. Lewis Team Handball, 1
• Ft. Lewis Team Handball, 2
• Ft. Lewis Team Handball, 3
• Ft. Lewis Team Handball, 4
• Ft. Lewis Team Handball, 5

• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (1 of 6)
• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (2 of 6)
• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (3 of 6)
• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (4 of 6)
• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (5 of 6)
• Kamiak High School - SOWA Basketball (6 of 6)

• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982969_cycling_dinner
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982950_Dinner
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982949_Track and Field
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982966_Track and Field, Dinner
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982967_cycling1k
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982955_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982959_cycling1k
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982969_cycling_dinner
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 290908_tm_hndbl
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 290907_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 290906_cycling_TnF
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 290904_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 290877_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982953_bkfst_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982956_bkfst_cycling
• SOWA 2002 Summer Games 982951_cycling

A little background:

I've been photographing various events for Special Olympics of Washington (SOWA) for several years. My introduction (and the 'big effort') was the Summer Games held at Ft. Lewis the weekend after Memorial Day each year. SOWA uses the photos taken by myself and other volunteer photographers for the printed program, their own website, advertising and promotion. One of the first things I encountered when shooting at these events is athletes approaching me wanting to know what newspaper my photos would be in. When I told them I was shooting for SOWA, they were always crestfallen; they knew they were unlikely to ever see the photos.

Funding for this kind of shooting has been a mixed bag. My time is of course donated. For some events SOWA has provided film and processing or reimbursement for funds expended. One year my employer (Boeing, a big contributor of funds and volunteer manpower to SOWA) provided processing for my film shot at the Summer Games. In the long run, I have found it to be less hassle just to fund the film and processing myself and take a write-off on my taxes.

I am trying to respond to the challenge of making as many SOWA images available to as many people as possible cheaply and efficiently. The world wide web seems to be a medium that promises to do that. In years past, Mark Best (the 'coordinator' of SOWA volunteer photographers) and I have tried hosting websites where interested people could view the photos and if they were savvy enough presumably download them and print them. We didn't get a lot of traffic or feedback to indicate that this was successful.

I'm trying a new method, the photo sharing services of www.ofoto.com (a division of Kodak). Ofoto seems to be set up primarily for the 'far-flung relatives' model. If I upload my photos to Ofoto, they make them available for viewing on the web. I can then link to these 'virtual albums' from my website so that athletes / parents / coaches / SOWA officials can view them. Most importantly, Ofoto allows viewers to purchase prints for a fair price and handles the mailing of them. No money from these sales goes to me or to SOWA, the purchase price goes to Ofoto. I'm covering the film and initial processing myself. If you have thoughts on this, by all means email me directly or leave a note in my Ofoto guestbook. It's a tough balancing act between getting the photos out to the maximum number of people, not making money (or appearing to, for that matter) and not spending too much out of my own pocket.

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