The Iron Chef Eugene competition was delayed by more than an hour after Chef Brendan Mahaney of Belly pulled out at the last second. A replacement was shortly found but he didn’t make it out of the first round. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

An artist uses pastels to recreate the scene of the first round of Iron Chef Eugene. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

The Moon Mountain Ramblers perform on the McKenzie River Stage in the late afternoon. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

Captain Christopher looks off into the distance as he creates a balloon dog for a young child. Chris is a retired fisherman who took up creating balloon animals 28 years ago. During his fishing days up in the Bering Sea, he was making over $100,000 a year and because of that for the first 20 years gave out thousands of balloons free of charge. Captain Christopher has been balloon-making at the Bite of Eugene for the past five years. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

The pastel painting of the Iron Chef Eugene competition will be auctioned off at next year’s Bite of Eugene. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

Joel Pomerantz of the Restaurant & Lodging Association, Jeff Kandarian of Kandarian Wine Cellars, and Jonathan Nixon of American Family Insurance taste and judge the chinook salmon creations from the first round of Iron Chef Eugene. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)

Children horseplay against a giant inflated duck presented by the Southtowne Eugene Rotary Club. The service club puts on a large raffle and rubber duck race every year to help raise money to prevent child abuse in Oregon. The race involves pouring thousands of ducks into the Willamette river and letting them drift until they reach the finish line. (Nate Barrett/Emerald)