Watefront visual makes for 2019 CityWest Phone Book Cover

The photographic skills of Robb Rydde will once again be saluted as
part of the 2019 CityWest Phone book, with Rydde's waterfront
photo selected by voters for this years cover

Robb Rydde, is becoming the go to guy for phone book covers, with the Prince Rupert photographer delivering the latest cover photo for the upcoming 2019 CityWest phone book, the fourth time that voters in the annual CityWest competition have selected his work as the best of the many options made available.

This years call for photos brought 75 submissions from the North Coast's talented photographers, from that 75, ten were then selected by CityWest staff for the final voting process, the annual voting period of late August came to an end last night.

From the voting over 1,200 votes came in with Rydde's presentation of a wooden boat at Rushbrook Floats the overwhelming choice of those casting their ballots, garnering 51% of all the votes cast in this years competition.

Second place honours went to a photo of Hammy, the wandering deer of Prince Rupert of recent months the photogenic animal endeared itself to locals for its fashion accessory of a purple hammock netting.

Despite the near cult status of the deer however, even Hammy could not overcome the waterfront visual from Mr. Rydde, with the Hammy tribute gaining 16% of the overall votes for this year.

In the CityWest Announcement of today's selection, Rydde tells the story of how the photo came about:

“I was walking along Rushbrook Trail with my brother, and I saw the wooden boat through a clearing,”  ...  “You hardly see wooden boats anymore, and that’s what made it stick out – everything around it was aluminum. And I thought, ‘hey, that would make a neat shot.’

The prolific local photographer actually had four options to go with for the CityWest competition and left it to his followers on Facebook to determine which one he would submit for this years phone book cover opportunity.

“In the past, I only submitted one photo for the contest, and this year I couldn’t make up my mind between four photos. I put them up on Facebook, and my friends said to just submit all four – so I did,”  ... “I’m quite surprised that the ‘wooden boat’ won.”

Mr. Rydde's most recent work, now joins such iconic phone covers as the Moon over Mount Hays, a sculpture near the carving Shed and the Whale Statue photo from the Rotary Waterfront Park.

You can review the ten finalists from this years competition from our item of last week.

The CityWest announcement can be reviewed here.

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