Avenger Photographers features the work of five Munich-based photographers. Radka Leitmeritz and Rene Hallen's beautifully toned images of urban interior and exterior views are particularly lovely (via Surfstation).

And still more good flash sites from the PDN Photo Annual 2003:

Mark Gilbert's editorial images have a cool, detached, clinical style, while his travel portfolio from Morocco, Mexico, France and Cuba shows a more candid side to his work.

Bob Scott's high impact sports- and lifestyle-oriented portfolio has currently received the highest number of readers votes in the competition.

k23 photography's portfolio is categorised under rather intriguing headings such as 'legs and poles', 'red', 'smoke machines', and 'a deal gone sour'.

While the site is a little less than ideal to navigate (the user must mouseover the navigation menu to find the names of the section items), Bill Diodato's fashion photography is delightfully complemented by the hand-drawn images which slowly morph into his work.

Ray Gordon's playful portfolio of super-hip portraits loads in super-quick time!

One thing that particularly struck me while I've been examining these flash sites closely is that few of the finalist sites step outside the dominant format of 'portfolio site accompanied by soundtrack'. I can only assume that their site content is fixed until a new site design or full update is ready (6 months, 12 months, or even 2 years from now), as they appear to make no attempt to publish regular content updates (weekly or monthly). Sites like these generally make a clear separation between portfolio and photoblog. Personally, no matter how fantastic I think a photographer is, I would very much like to see their works in progress, weekly experiments, and current projects, and the sites would be much more likely to encourage repeat visitors than the current 'wow 'em once' approach. Perhaps next year the judges of the PDN Photo Annual will take note of some of the topnotch photoblogs which regularly feature consistently strong photography such as quarlo from New York.