2022 Leavenworth Regional: Photos

Send Me Some

Here's How To Send Photos:

• Above the Strike Zone: Try not to include in the frame any part of the body below where the letters would be on a baseball uniform. People want to see faces, not waistlines. If you have people of different heights, you might have to include the tall one's strike zone(s), but make faces your focus.
• Fill the Frame: Don't stand so far back that only 10%-20% of the frame is faces. Move up close and look at your screen as a guide. I will always crop out legs and shoes, and if this leaves an image that is small, the quality will suffer.
• Send the biggest version you can: It's important. ooga@shaw.ca is the address to send photo files to. Don't send the one that takes up the least bandwidth, it will look blurred on a screen if the resolution is lowered beyond a reasonable level.
• Identify!: I need to know who the people are and what they did. If they won an event, tell me which one and first names from left to right in the photo will suffice (I can get the rest from the data I am sent). I'd also like to credit the photo taker, so tell me who you are as well.
• Watch the lighting and background: At night, photos taken in the dark may not look too well and require touchup. The playing area is usually best for light. I have taken a lot of photos that seem to have trees coming out of the tops of people's heads, so avoid that if you can, although now that all photos will appear online in colour (as opposed to monochrome on paper), this is not as big an issue as it used to be. Leavenworth has some great outdoor scenes that would make great photos: if your team goes out for dinner, take a photo of the team somewhere and send it along if you win! Simple is usually best, against a wall inside the playing area, or even in a space in the middle with people milling around a distance away can sometimes work.
• Patience: There's a lot to do at scary hours during a Daily Bulletin week, and it may take a day or two before I can get around to posting photos. Or responding to those who have sent them.

	Friday Open Pairs winners, and tournament masterpoint leaders thru Friday: Steve Bruno, Kirkland WA Ray Miller, Seattle WA
Wednesday Open Pairs Winners as well as many lower-strat Open Pairs wins this week and non-LM tournament masterpoint leaders thru Friday: Jack Qi - Lucy Zhong; North Vancouver BC
	Two new members of the District 19 Goodwill Committee: Paul Burma, Sunnyside WA Doug Sanders, Grandview WA
Friday Gold Rush 0-750 Pairs Winners: Liesbeth Goris, Trail BC; Leona Ashcroft, Nelson BC
	Friday Gold Rush 0-750 Pairs Evening N-S Winners: Eddie Crews, Sidney BC Bob Shelley, Bellevue WA
Thursday Open Pairs Winners: Steve Rasmussen, Silverton OR; Paul Reeves, Tigard OR
	Thursday Bracketed Round-Robin Swiss Teams Winners: Dong Yan, Samammish WA Herman Xiao, Samammish WA James Madison, Cheney WA Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA
Monday-Tuesday Knockouts, Bracket I Winners: (back row) Steve Bruno, Kirkland, WA; Scott Chupack, Seattle, WA; (front row) Amy DeShaw - Ray Miller - Elaine DeShaw, Federal Way, WA; They also won Bracket 1 of the Wednesday-Thursday Knockouts!
	New Bronze Life Master Congratulations! Bill Griffiths Coeur D'Alene ID
Tournament Chair Karen Rise
	Tuesday Swiss Teams winners: Katie Kathy Hauck; Shoreline WA; Marjorie Blunt; Federal Way WA; Barbara Kolppa; Puyallup WA; Sharon Irwin; Maple Valley WA
Monday-Tuesday Knockouts, Bracket II winners: Lou Arevalo - Martha Hancock, Coeur D'Alene ID; Virginia Sykes - Keith Freeman, Spokane WA
	Welcome!
Yes, this is what Christmas here looks like.
	The Festhalle, tournament playing site, on the edge of everything in Leavenworth.
Daytime in Leavenworth.
	A Bavarian city in the central Washington mountains!
Flowers and themed buildings.