Sorry, I'm with the Denise. Those photographers aren't there as volunteers. They are professionals with very expensive cameras, lenses, timing equipment and computers. It takes skill, knowledge and labor to take the photos, to organize and deliver them. It is a product/service just like anything your own companies sell. If you don't pay for the photo this time, they won't be there the next time or they'll raise their prices just like stores that have to price their items high enough to cover loss from shoplifting. Or bookstores having to cover loss from damaged books and magazines because people use them like a library.

BTW, I bought two prints and a CD at this year's Party Pardee. I've enjoyed having them because there are so few good photos of either of us on road bikes. Not all of us have a Thom in our lives (Veronica's hubby).