CLICK ON THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER IMAGES.Latin and Standard heats from the 2009 Manhattan Amateur Classic. Comments are welcome. These images are the copyright property of the photographer and may not be copied or reproduced without permission. (The dancers pictured have my permission to use these images, which are of sufficient resolution for e-mailing or displaying on a monitor; to print photos, please click here to visit an online photo-processing site to which I have uploaded full-resolution images that can be printed up to 20x30 inches.

Dancers pictured include:

ADULT PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: Khan Hannan and Meagan O'Toole, George Shamis and Ava Donovan, Filipp Akopyan and Alena Birukova, Chin-Hong Wang and Natalya Gertsik, Scott Vu and Lisa Falcone.
ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP LATIN: Tal Livshitz and Vlada Semenova, Jason Dai and Patrycja Golak, Peter Gelzhinsky and Mila Burdan, Igor Zabrodin and Nina Estrina, Pasha Stepanchuk and Nadezda Vlasova, Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina, Boris Rudenko and Ekaterina Fedosova, Pavel Balykin and Natalia Barantseva.
ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP SMOOTH: Ryan Kenner and Amanda Pytlik.
TEAM MATCH: "Team Awesome."
YOUTH LATIN CHAMPIONSHIP: Ilia Kvartin and Ann Stillman, Mircea Cernev and Jennifer Fales, Ron Garber and Sofia Zaytseva, Slavic Ben and Yana Orlova, Dmitry Ivashchenko and Liza Lakovitskya, Adrian Zalewski and Elizabeth Pavlov, Allen Yevtukhov and Katie Pisarevsky, Emanuel Shaulov and Susan Ronis, Sergey Golubtson and Alina Iougai, Taras Savitskyy and Liya Podokshik, Landon Anderson and Vashti Reed, Szymon Szwinge and Victoria Mroz.
ADULT PRE-CHAMP STANDARD: Miguel Valle and Alina Entin, Charles Shorter and Anna Kordunsky, Yuan Ren and Miyoung Kim, Ryan Kenner and Haiwen Chen, Derek Walker and Jennifer Vestal.
ADULT CHAMPIONSHIP STANDARD: Joe Huesmann and Stacey Friedman, Derek Walker and Jennifer Vestal, Vasyl Makarov and Grace Fu, Alex Spencer and Katarzyna Herink, Kani Liao and Anna Chaldysheva.
YOUTH PRE-CHAMP LATIN: David Kalenjian and Yuliya Kiperberg, Adrien Zalewski and Elizabeth Pavlov, Luis Daniel Catacora and Kennedy Taylor, Cezary Dyrda and Sandra Spernacka, Aiden Mamedov and Melani Bersten, George Shamis and Ava Donovan, Myron Shneyder and Mrina Shkuratov, Daniel Yakubov and Alisa Rybkin, Igor Smolyanskiy and Karina Strok, Allen Yevtukhov and Katie Pisarevsky, Oskar Ploszaj and Claudia Strojek, Emanuel Shaulov and Susan Ronis.
ADULT NOVICE STANDARD: Henry Cross and Tamara Mitryakova.


Equipment used: Canon EOS20D digital camera in RAW mode using a Canon EF 70-200mm F4.0L USM. Flash photographs use a Canon Speedlite 580EX2, Really Right Stuff B870B Flash Bracket, and Canon Compact Battery Pack CP-E3. Images not handheld are stabilized using either Bogen #3021 tripod legs, Acratech Ultimate Ballhead, and Canon TC-80N3 remote release or a Manfrotto #3245 monopod with #3232 head. I use Really Right Stuff QR clamps and plates and protect my lenses with B+W Multi-Resistant Coating UV filters. Software used: RAW image conversion, white balance correction, exposure correction, highlight recovery, and correction of lens distortion and lateral chromatic aberration through DxO Optics Pro 5.2; noise reduction through Noise Ninja 2.2, adjustments to color, tone, and sharpness through Adobe Photoshop CS3. I use a 16-bit digital workflow modelled after that of Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller.