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Showdown Shootout

By Colin Whyte

Friday, April 24, 2009

Thursday night, five of the world's top action sports photographers each put together a nine-minute "slideshow" of their work, set it to music and pressed Play for a hyped-up crowd in the Whistler Conference Center. The finalists who made it to the big show, held this year in the heart of the Grenade Games, were: Ian Ruhter, Christian Pondella, Scott Pommier, Daniel Blom, and Jordan Manley. If you've never been to the Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown, you might think, "Oh, mountain town medi ...

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