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News
Ryu shot 10 days worth of ping pong, and his first Champions League final, but had to say goodbye to his cat Maggie. Matt spent another month on the road, shooting rodeos, naming a bucking horse colt, and being honored with a parade lap at the Marysville Stampede.

(Picture by Jacqueline Cohen)

Master Class
Ryu and Matt answer a listener question about post processing, the one area where they couldn’t disagree more.

Training Ground
Training Ground is now on video. If you’d like to participate (and we think you should), enter your pictures in the Flickr thread and make sure to tag them BLFSTG201306.

You Win
Our May 2013 themed competition was “Wide Angle.”
The winner was Hridoy Tanveer with this inspired basketball picture:

Second place was a great track & field picture by Bashar Alshabi that would have won any other month, and third place was this snowboarding picture by Peter Lienert.
The June 2013 themed competition is “Wheels”. Goto our BLFS flickr group page for competition rules and to enter.

Podium
May Podium winners are:
1) Ignacio Izaguirre with this rugby picture
2) Leonardo with this basketball picture
3) Benji with this running picture

Cross-Counter
Our new segment where we say good things about sports photographs is called Cross-Counter. This episode we went with the theme from You Win and picked some wide angle pictures. Ryu picked this dejection picture (#4) and Matt picked this celebration picture (#3)

Special thanks to…
Our new producer Robb Massar
Icon by Arvin Bautista

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