I’ll be boycotting the State of the Union tonight.

I refuse to normalize Donald Trump’s lawlessness, unconstitutionality, fascist, authoritarian, and corruption bullshit.

Get Out The Float is holding a fundraiser on Go Fund Me (maybe in this case, Go Inflate Me is a better name?) to raise funds for purchasing bouncy castles for future Get Out The Float conventions. GOTF’s goal is to raise $4,000.00.

Why is GOTF buying bouncy castles and doing away with renting?

In the fundraiser description and on GetOutTheFloat.com, GOTF says it’s has to do with the inflating (pun intended) rental costs and the conditions that the rental bouncy castles are received.

At Get Out The Float Seaside 2026, three bouncy castles were received either dirty or damaged. GOTF staff worked extra time to get the bouncy castles into a serviceable state. Later, the three castles were taken off line and sent back, including the sad and deflated tiger in the featured image above.

If you want to help fund the new bouncy castle equipment, head on over to the Get Out The Float Go Fund Me page.

They did it! Furlife Northwest’s When Furballs Strike 56th bowling meet announced in their Bluesky post that they broke the fursuit attendance record with 204 fursuiters at Kenmore Lanes on Saturday. The record breaks the 203 fursuiters at WFS 52.

A total of 342 people attended at WFS 56. WFS 52 sets the record of 411 attendees.

No number of bowlers was announced at the time of this post. The record held is 274 bowlers at WFS 50. The charity numbers have not been announced either.

You can also read about my photos and go to my gallery here in When Furballs Strike 56 Photos Posted.

My When Furballs Strike 56 photos are now posted. You can view the photos in the gallery.

There are 103 photos in the gallery. A total of 647 frames have been taken.

I decided not to bowl this time, which really improved my photographing experience without the distraction of multitasking.

In the past, I’d bowl and photograph. I found this not to be a distraction, but probably also an annoyance to my team mates.

WFS 57 dates are to be determined. Stay posted at https://bowlwfs.net/ for the latest.

Get Out The Float posted their numbers last night. 407 attendees (up 53% from last year), 142 fursuiters counted in the parade (up 34% from last year), and $4,913.11 raised for Sunset Park & Recreation Foundation (up 21% from last year).

I shot 1,936 images during the convention, mainly on the convention days (Feb. 12-15, 2026). My photo selection and editing work are still in progress. By the time the editing process is done, there should be a few hundred images. I avoid doing the “roll dump.”

I spent an average of 13 hours a day on my feet, capturing photos of various events.

I’m back from Get Out The Float 2026. I had a good time, despite the long days on my foot paws, walking around, taking photos, and finding a moment to take a break while working as the photography supervisor. Plenty of good things happened while photographing the convention. A few things that we’ll have to iron out for GOTF 2027 photography.

I specialize in still photography and don’t often work with video. I’m clueless when it comes to videos. This is like one trying to run a newspaper or magazine to also run a television station.

How am I feeling? I’m beat, very much like Finneus flopped across the three chairs back stage in the photo above.

I was lucky to work with a great photography and videography team at the convention. I want to say thank you to those guys and I really appreciate the hard work they have done and for their time. Thank you, Get Out The Float staff and volunteers.

Photo Update

Photos from Thursday and Friday are posted in the Get Out The Float Seaside 2026 gallery.

Photos from Saturday and Sunday will be available sometime this week. These were long day with almost no time for turnaround. Please check back for updated gallery.

My Get Out The Float 2026 photos are posted in the Get Out The Float 2026 gallery. I’ll be updating the photo gallery throughout the course of the convention.

Please check back for new uploads!

The Anthro Northwest 8 (2026) fursuit parade photos are posted in the gallery.

Unfortunately, some of the photos from the parade were lost due to a technical issue that happened during the convention.

My parade photos featuring fursuiters only are also posted on Furtrack. The photos will appear once Furtrack approves them.

Why do I post to both Shutterwolf.net and Furtrack.com, and not just on Furtrack.com?

Furtrack.com is an excellent furry photography website that has a wealth of information of the suiter. It shows the character name, photographer, suit maker, the event, species, and other characteristics. Many of the images have a link to a website or social media.

Furtrack’s requirement is that the images must include a full or partial fursuit, or just the fursuit head alone.

A majority of my photos will have images without fursuiters. This is typical with opening and closing ceremonies, car shows, pool toys, other objects around the conventions, and non-suiting performers. I’d say about 60 to 80 percent my photos meet Furtrack’s requirements.

The deer formation from Get Out The Float McMinnville 2019 in the above image wouldn’t meet Furtrack’s requirement, because there’s no prominent fursuiter in the image.

Besides, the time to prepare the images for Furtack takes only a few minutes that I have no issue sharing my photos on both. And Furtrack also makes a good backup in case Shutterwolf.net has issues, like it did earlier this month.

My Anthro Northwest 8 (2026) gallery is now up at Anthro Northwest 8 (2026).

I photographed Anthro Northwest at my own behalf. It was a good exercise to prepare for Get Out The Float in February.

What I didn’t expect were the tech gremlins coming out of the woodwork during the convention. I encountered technical issues with my camera or lens, external drive, and a broken website. Unfortunately, this also led to some of the photos becoming lost. The issues just turned into a distraction for me.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my Anthro Northwest 8 photos. The parade photos will be posted separately.