Judges Wenatchee World Don Seabrook, Photo Editor
Mike Bonnicksen, Staff Photographer
Reilly Kneedler, Staff reporter/photographerPhotographers-20Feature-35 News-34Sports-44Spot News- Carried over to OctoberPortrait-35Multi-Photo-10 entries/104 photosFEATUREJudges comments: The judges appreciated the composition that each of these three photographs showed. The first-place image had a lot of extra dimension, thanks to colorful contrails, that gave it a step above the rest. The photographer found a great place to shoot the scene and the addition of a bird’s silhouette helped make it a stand-out. 1. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press 
The Red Arrows Royal Air Force aerobatic team, based in England, fly past Downtown Vancouver, on Thursday September 26, 2019. The team flew past Victoria and Vancouver, the last of the four Canadian appearances on the team’s 20-stop tour of North America.
2. David Bloom/Postmedia 
First year Engineering student Weichen Qiu is framed by a giant board game as he takes photographs during the University of Alberta's welcome week activities, in Edmonton Wednesday Sept. 4, 2019.
3. Leah Hennel/Freelance
Sites after the Pride Parade in Calgary on September 1, 2019.
NEWSJudges comments: This was a strong category that made deciding the winning order difficult. The top image was framed well to draw focus to the firefighter’s helmet. The second-place image displayed the peculiar situation well and was helped by a strong caption. The third-place image was also well composed with strong layers. 1. Ian Martens/Lethbridge Herald
Firefighter Neil Soklofske, centre, holds a helmet as the Lethbridge Fire Department honour guard and pipe & drum members start out from fire headquarters in a parade of first responders marching to Southminster United Church as part of the Fallen Firefighters Memorial Ceremony.
2. Ian Martens/Lethbridge Herald
David Stephan is surrounded by photographers and reporters as he films a live social media broadcast in front of the court house after he and his wife Collet were found not guilty in their necessaries of life re-trial relating to the 2012 death of their 18-month-old son Ezekiel.
3. Jesse Winter/The Star Vancouver
Teenagers and youth stage a 'die-in' outside the Vancouver headquarters of Teck Resources as part of an expected week-long series of climate strikes demanding meaningful action on climate change.
SPORTSComments: The use of slow shutter speeds paired with water is something the judges have seen often, but the winning image in this category was something truly unique. The light and movement were both very strong — a clear winner to us. The second-place image was the best traditional action shot in the bunch, helped by the boxers’ expressions. Third place showed a photographer who was paying attention when it mattered and snagged a great feature. 1. Kevin Light/Freelance
Jill Yoneda takes a stroke during a nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean from the Goldstream Boathouse to the Mill Bay Marina on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada on September 1st, 2019. Diagnosed with a degenerative disc disease, compartment syndrome, and a rare condition known as popliteal artery entrapment syndrome Yoneda swims to raise money for Canuck Place, a British Columbia paediatric palliative care provider for children with life-threatening illnesses.
2. David Bloom/Postmedia
Alejandro Meneses lands a punch against Flavio Michel (left) during KO 87, in Edmonton Friday Sept. 13, 2019.
3. Mark Blinch/Freelance 
TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 29: Breyvic Valera #74 of the Toronto Blue Jays is gets sunflower seeds thrown at him by teammate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #27 after hitting a home run against the Tampa Bay Rays in the sixth inning during their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on September 29, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.
PORTRAITComments: The judges thought the image of the logger made the best use of lighting in the category. The subject had a very earnest expression that helped advance the story told in the caption. It was apparent that a lot of thought and planning went into the second-place image, which the judges also appreciated. The third-place image was simple, but the subject’s expression made it a solid capture. 1. Jesse Winter/The Star Vancouver
Rick Lovett has worked in the forestry industry his entire life. He worked for years in big mills like the Hammond Cedar mill in Maple Ridge, B.C., before being laid off during a downturn in the 1990s. Now he works for Kanaka Creek Forest Products, a niche player that focuses on making lumber in sizes that big mills don't handle.
2. Chad Hipolito/National Post
Victoria, B.C.,August 20, 2019-- Mandy Farmer, CEO of Accent Inns and Hotel Zed was recently made honorary Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy. She's photographed from a vantage point overlooking the harbour at CFB Esquimalt. *Published in September 2019*
3. Kevin Light/Freelance
Jill Yoneda stands on the dock prior to attempting a nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean from the Goldstream Boathouse to the Mill Bay Marina on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada on September 1st, 2019. Diagnosed with a degenerative disc disease, compartment syndrome, and a rare condition known as popliteal artery entrapment syndrome Yoneda swims to raise money for Canuck Place, a British Columbia paediatric palliative care provider for children with life-threatening illnesses.
MULTI-PHOTOComments: This was the closest category for the judges. The first-place photo essay had a great variety of images and told the story of this training swim from start to finish. The photographer’s level of dedication was apparent. The second-place photo series featured a compelling subject who was captured well. Our third-place selection had a few very strong frames — the drone image especially caught our eye. 1. Kevin Light/Freelance 
Jill Yoneda stands on a dock prior to attempting a nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean from Goldstream Boathouse to the Mill Bay Marina on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada on September 1st, 2019. Diagnosed with a degenerative disc disease, compartment syndrome, drop foot, and a rare condition known as popliteal artery entrapment syndrome Yoneda swims to raise money for Canuck Place, a British Columbia paediatric palliative care provider for children with life-threatening illnesses.
Jill Yoneda decides which style of wet suit, goggles and swim cap to wear while standing outside the Goldstream Marina office before heading to the water to converse with her standup paddle board and power boat support team.
Before being able to walk down the boat ramp to her launch point Jill Yoneda puts on and tightens the strap on her drop foot brace. Drop foot occurs when someone has difficulty lifting the front part of their foot. During the swim Yoneda will have limited use of her legs relying mostly on her arms to propel herself forward.
Jill Yoneda slides into the 11 degree water off the stern of her support boat at precisely 8:58am taking advantage of an ebbing tide helping her to swim North towards Mill Bay.
Jill Yoneda makes her way North, five and half hours into her nine hour swim keeping a stroke rate of 58 strokes per minute. “I see the courage of Canuck Place children and families, and the power of the human spirit. I think my swim is ultimately successful if it provides a platform to start a conversation about Canuck Place care and how valuable it is.” explained Yoneda.
Stand up Paddle boarder Darren Bachiu delivers two home-made protein energy bars to Jill Yoneda during one of her feed breaks which occur every hour and last four to five minutes. During her swim Yoneda ate one full baby food squeeze pack, seven protein bars, two peanut butter squares, two peaches, four cups of pasta, one banana and a giant hamburger waiting for her upon the completion of her swim in Mill Bay.
Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia Canada Jill Yoneda is guided by Darren Bachiu and Meghan Kelly through the mouth of the Saanich Inlet while Shane Battley points with his paddle while speaking with swim logistics leader Dale Robinson aboard the support boat.
Jill Yoneda takes a quick break to gargle with mouth wash in an attempt to combat the effects of salt mouth. Salt mouth is one of the most significant limiting factors for very long swims as it can shred the entire surface of the tongue and inflame the throat.
Swim logistics leader Dale Robinson,left, monitors Jill Yoneda's stroke rate, nutrition, speed, positioning and weather patterns while Shane Battley, paddle board support coordinator, middle and Steve Sharples owner of the support boat chart her course on a GPS monitor.
43-year old Jill Yoneda swims into a kelp forrest during her nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean. “Even after suffering an accident that left me without the full use of one my legs and confined to a brace, swimming makes me feel whole.” said Jill.
Jill Yoneda takes a drink of ice tea at the halfway mark of a nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean from the Goldstream Boathouse to the Mill Bay Marina. Jill stoped to drink ten times during her swim consuming a combination of protein drinks, ice tea and flat Coca-Cola.
Jill Yoneda takes a stroke in the final hour of her nine hour, 19km training swim as she approaches Mill Bay Marina. Yoneda started out her swimming career as a freediver, and dove for Team Canada in 2006, 2008, and 2012. She holds three world records for dynamic apnea with a personal best of swimming 150 meters underwater while holding her breath.
Jill Yoneda speaks with Dale Robinson confirming her exact landing spot at the Mill Bay Marina while paddle boarder Meghan Kelly prepares her last protein drink.
Darren Bachiu and Shane Battley guide Jill Yoneda past boats and docks at the Mill Bay Marina as she swims the final few meters of her 19km training swim.
With the sun setting Jill Yoneda exits the water for the first time at Mill Bay Marina after departing from the Goldstream Boathouse nine hours earlier.
Jill Yoneda poses for a portrait following a nine hour, 19km training swim in the Pacific Ocean from the Goldstream Boathouse to the Mill Bay Marina on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada on September 1st, 2019.
2. Jesse Winter/The Star Vancouver 
Gary Sharp mows his lawn in Boonville, Missouri, watched by a stuffed deer in his living room. Sharp grew up in the small farming town. He was a school teacher and track coach for 30 years before he retired. "I lost the fire," he says. But he found it again when he reinvented hiself as a taxidermist - one of the most successful in the county - even though he doesn't hunt.
Gary Sharp starts his day every morning at 7 a.m. at the local diner, the Route B Cafe in Boonville, Missouri. He sits alone at the same table and orders only a coffee that he enjoys with a cigarette, before heading to work in his garage.
A rotten antelope head boils in a stock pot behind Gary Sharp's garage in Boonville, Missouri. It belongs to a client who Sharp says left it festering in his back yard for too long. Now Sharp must boil and flense of the putrid felsh befor he can bleach and mount the trophy skull.
Gary Sharp test-fits the skin of a black bear on a model for a client in his home workshop garage in Boonville, Missouri.
A stuffed rooster prances on the handle of an axe in Gary Sharp's home taxidermy workshop in Boonville, Missouri.
Gary Sharp laughs while talking to a fellow taxidermist on speaker phone in his workshop garage in Boonville, Missouri. Sharp says he relies on a network of other independent taxidermists across the American south to keep his skills and technique sharp.
Gary Sharp combs the fur of a newly-finished white-tailed dear head mounted for a client.
Taxidermist Gary Sharp takes a break after test-fitting a black bear skin on a model for a client in his home workshop garage.
Gary Sharp grew up in Boonville, Mo. He was a school teacher and track coach there for 30 years before he retired. "I lost the fire," he says. But he found it again when he reinvented himself as a taxidermist, even though he doesn't hunt.
Gary Sharp relaxes on the couch in his den with his wife Carrolyn at the end of a long day, surrounded by animal heads and life-sized recreations that he mounted himself. Sharp doesn't hunt, and did not kill any of the animals in his home.
3. Jesse Winter/The Star Vancouver 
A male sockeye salmon swims upstream in Corbold Creek, a tributary of the Pitt River and ultimately the Fraser River. 2019 has been a challenging year for B.C'.'s salmon, with very low return numbers of both chinoook and sockeye.
Musqueam Indian Band fisheries officers Morgan Guerin (centre) and Lawrence Guerin scan the horizon of the Salish Sea for recreational salmon fishing boats. Morgan says despite a supreme court ruling protecting his nation's right to harvest salmon over that of other users, the federal government has restricted Musqueam's fishery while failing to enforce quotas on sport fishers.
Musqueam Indian Band fisheries officer Morgan Guerin speaks with a recreational salmon fisher on the Salish Sea near Vancouver. Morgan says despite a supreme court ruling protecting his nation's right to harvest salmon over that of other users, the federal government has restricted Musqueam's fishery while failing to enforce quotas on sport fishers.
Raincoast Conservation biologist David Scott (right) works a sein net with Emily Siemens (foreground) and Sam Scott (centre) in the Fraser River Estuary near Vancouver as part of a salmon restoration habitat study. The trio caught a number of small fish species in the estuary, but onl one solitary salmon fry.
Raincoast Conservation biologist David Scott holds a sockeye salmon fry that was caught in a sein net as part of a habitat restoration study. The tiny fry was the only salmon caught on a day of fish sampling to study salmon habitat earlier this summer.
Technicians and volunteers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada corral spawning sockeye salmon with nets on Corbold Creek, just off of Pitt Lake, north of Maple Ridge, B.C. as part of an egg harvesting and data collection day.
Male sockeye salmon are caught in a net used by Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers and volunteers as they collect eggs and sperm from spawning fish in Corbold Creek, north of Maple Ridge B.C. The samples collected will be used to support an enhancement program at the Inch Creek hatchery.
Eggs are harvested from a female sockeye salmon by Fisheries and Oceans Canada technicians and volunteers as part of a program to support a stock enhancement program at the nearby Inch Creek hatchery.
Mary-Beth Fagan, the operations manager of the sockeye satellite program at the Inch Creek hatchery, collects otoliths from the heads of sampled sockeye salmon on Corbold Creek. Otoliths are a small ear bone that help salmon maintain their stability in water. As they grow they create rings, which can be used to determine a fish's age, similar to rings in a tree's trunk.
Dead sockeye salmon are piled ahead of their sperm being collected by Fisheries and Oceans Canada technicians and volunteers.
2019 STANDINGS…MONTH…TOTAL1. Mark Blinch/Freelance…30…730
1. Darryl Dyck/Freelance…50…730
2. Leah Hennel/Freelance…30…650
3. David Bloom/Postmedia…80…620
4. Jesse Winter/The Star Vancouver…150…470
5. Kevin Light/Freelance…130…460
6. Ian Martens/Lethbridge Herald…90…390
7. Bernard Brault/La Presse…0…340
8. Blair Gable/Freelance…0…310
9. Jeff Mcintosh/Freelance…0…300
10. Chad Hipolito/Freelance…40…230
11. Justin Greaves/Metroland Media…0…170
11. Crystal Schick/Yukon News…0…170
12. Christopher Pike/Freelance…0...150
12. Liam Richards/Freelance…0…150
13. Josie Desmarais/Freelance…0…140
13. Brandon Harder/Regina Leader-Post…0…140
14. Derek Ruttan/London Free Press…0…50
15. Steve Russell/Toronto Star…0…30
15. Tina Lovegreen/CBC…0…30
16. John Lucas/Freelance…0…10
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