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The Big Apple Scrabble Showdown : I'll be adding photos here as I get them done -- NOTE: these are all web-sized files - not suitable for prints. Should anyone want actual prints, please contact me by email directly - annsan@nyc.rr.com. The first 15 photos are from Friday night. As of this moment it is Tuesday A.M.... I've posted 33 photos - may add
a few more during the week... since Ira posted the Youtube video of the awards and Sherrie shot that, too I'm not duplicating the "here is your money" stuff :)

The nitty-gritty info stuff about this exciting event is at http://bigapplescrabble.com/2008/sd/index.html

The Big Apple
Scrabble Showdown

Photos in LETTERATI : The 36 photos are all in the recently published book titled LETTERATI. The author is Paul McCarthy of Colorado. The books is published by ECW Press of Toronto and is in brick and mortar stores as well as on line from Amazon, B & N and possibly others. All photos were taken by me except for the one of me with Adam Logan at the 1996 Nationals - which was taken by Larry Sherman. These are all under my copyright and "right-click" protected - so if you tried to print them you would only get the captions. Should anyone want a print or prints for any reason, email me annsan.nyc.rr.com. NOTE: the order of the photos here has nothing to do with their order in the book. Paul ordered photos from me of specific people and the "scenes" from the old days and I dug up what I could from my stock of over 30 years. Yes, you have seen some of them before - a number have been in other publications and some were in the film WORD WARS

Techie note for photographers: Most photos were taken with Tri-X film, though a few were scanned from color prints or slides. only the photos at the 2007 BAT and the 2005 Nationals were shot with a Canon digital camera. The only editing done in photoshop was simple conversion to digital black and whites, "spotting" and some cropping. In otherwords, these are un-manipulated images.

Photos in LETTERATI

The Old Days - Scrabble in the 70's : Photos of tournament Scrabble Players from the 70's to the present
Except for the photo of Mark Dibattista and the one of Joel and Matt, these images were scanned from prints made from Tri-x negs or the negs themselves. Most of these are on exhibit through mid-July at the Comfort Diner on 45th between 2nd and 3rd aves in New York City... as I unearth more from my files the gallery will expand.

The Old Days - Scrabble in the 70's

The July, 2007 Big Apple Comfort Diner Tourney : Just a few snaps from the splendid tournament Ira Freehof hosted at his Comfort Diner in New York. There might have been more photos if I had not been
doing well in Division 3

The July, 2007
Big Apple Comfort Diner Tourney

Exhibit for the June 28th Big Apple Tourney : IMPORTANT NOTE: for the photos in THIS gallery - please contact me for prints rather than ordering from smugmug. fine if you already did order from this site, but I'd rather make the prints myself.
The 15 photos for the 4th Comfort Diner tourney. Taken and also photo-shopped into cartoon charactersby yours truly. All who won their division or came in 2nd are represented -including at the Big Apple at the Roosevelt... (this worked out because of duplications and my leaving myself out of it and I had no photo of Joan Kelly - who won her division last October. I was limited to 15 pieces. NOTE - the (c) on the display here is NOT on the works themselves - it is just my watermark for copyright protection on the web.

Exhibit for the June 28th
Big Apple Tourney

At the 3rd Big Apple Comfort Diner Tourney : These are a few photos from the 3rd Big Apple Scrabble tourney at Ira Freehof's COMFORT DINER in New York. I'm writing this intro at the point I gathered 36 photos - might or might not be adding more. They are in the order they were taken. You can view these in the normal way of clicking on the first one then "next" to see the photos with the caption or you can click on the "slideshow" button, above. If you'd like prints of any of these, they can be ordered through this site (see the "buy" button). If you were at the tourney and aren't here, either I didn't manage to get a shot of you or it was so awful that
you'd not be pleased if I put it on line :) :) - might find a few more acceptable shots and will get them up when I can - but I think I need to back away from them for a few days.

At the 3rd
Big Apple
Comfort Diner Tourney

Washington Square Scrabble Parkies : Photos taken in Washington Square Park over the past 7 years only. The older ones were shot on film and
scanned from small prints.... Several were taken this year when I was able to find some Scrabblers in the park.
It aint what it used to be.

Washington Square Scrabble Parkies

Scrabblers in Other Venues : Legendary Scrabble players away from the board... in other words, a few friends of the photographer snapped when they were relaxing or engaged in non-word-game endeavors.... pictures posted here as I happen upon them in my files.

Scrabblers in Other Venues

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