INPA-Indiana News Photographers Association

Cream of the Crop, 1st Place Features

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Judges
Michael Bocchieri, Senior Photo Editor at Getty Images. Overall the sports category was lacking the most. Some really weak crops, not a lot of tight action, and some just typical boring moments. It was the hardest to judge and make comments about. As I mentioned previously, there were lots of campaign photos that didn’t say much about anything. You shouldn’t include images simply because it has a recognizable face. If it doesn’t tell the story or explains who the person is then it’s just a poor photo of a famous person. Too often we get caught up in the experience of obtaining an image than the actual images themselves.

F-Feature 1st Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Commnets:
This kid has personality and it comes through on this photo. He’s destined to be a rock star. Love his body language and expression. However, after reading the caption it leads me to believe that this is an image part of a larger story. The image and caption don’t relate to each other, the photo doesn’t say that this boy has a tumor. But it’s strong enough to stand on it’s own as a feature photo.

F-Feature 2nd Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Commnets:
The composition of course draws me in to this photo but it’s the tension in the ballerina’s face that sells me. The juxtaposition of the instructor adds to the graphical elements and grounds the photo. It’s a simple moment, executed well.

F-Feature 3rd Place
Photographer: Erin McCracken
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Judges Commnets:
This is a terrific moment, her hands and lips say a lot about her concentration and dedication to sign language. Feature photos don’t need to be overly complicated, this makes for a great moment and solid composition.

F-Feature HM Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
What an interesting image. What I like most is all of the blank faces staring in multiple directions. I think what hurts this is it’s lack of composition, there are a few distracting elements that draw you away from the subject who already blends in with the scene.

GN-General_News 1st Place Cream of the Crop
Photographer: Scott M. Bort / Post-Tribune
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Judges Commnets:
I think this is another great moment. It comments a lot about the youth in America. Each teenager has such an empathetic look on their face and their combined body language and the contrast in the environment around them makes this a winner.

GN-General_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort / Post-Tribune
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Judges Commnets:
This election year I’ve seen a lot of campaign images and so few of them show politicians as real people. Mostly because every opportunity that they are presented to the media that situation is overly orchestrated by someone else. In this month’s clips selections there were a lot of election images and the majority of them had little to say about anything. They seemed to be included because they were just a nice image of relatively famous person. You can tell in this image that Hillary let her guard down, the look on her face shows that she’s able to enjoy herself. It’s a real moment, one that the press rarely sees.

GN-General_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Commnets:
Who doesn’t like to kiss a pig! Great moment and expressions. Very simply tells the story and love the tension between the principal and the pig. Makes me laugh every time I look at it, a good sign of a good photo.

GN-General_News HM Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Commnets:
Lately, we see this type of image all too often and it starts to become old hat. This is no fault of the photographer , they were able to make a powerful, emotional image with an event that as a viewer we have been desensitized from.

Multiple_Entry 1st Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
Great story here. It introduces our characters well and shows the involement of people outside the family. A few shots seemed repetitive, especially the two detail shots. You already established that there are 5 babies, you don’t need to do it again. I would have liked to see the parents relationship a bit more or the different aspects that the volunteers provide to the family. Overall it has some solid moments and lends itself as good community journalism.

Multiple_Entry 2nd Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort / Post-Tribune
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Judges Commnets:
This is solid campaign coverage, it tells the story of the day and puts a good deal of focus on the community’s involvement in politics.

Multiple_Entry 3rd Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Commnets:
Great little feature on often an un-looked upon subject. Some nice moments in the piece that doesn’t get bogged down with typical classroom shots. However, there isn’t one standalone image that tells me that Hall is the lone male teacher.

Multiple_Entry HM Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapoli
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Judges Commnets:
Good overall coverage of spot news. Shows the human devastation as well as the physical and tells the story completely.

S-Sports 1st Place
Photographer: jim rider
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Judges Commnets:
Great use of a unique angle to clean up the background. The positioning of the three players makes for a great composition. Your eye is lead around the photo rapidly but keeps you in the peak action. One thing I would have done differently is to tighten up the crop, the missing feet and partially cut off one bothers me.

S-Sports 2nd Place
Photographer: AJ Mast, Freelance
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Judges Commnets:
Can’t ask for a better jubo photo. Great emotion and personality.

S-Sports 3rd Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapoli
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Judges Commnets:
Great peak action moment.

Cream of the Crop, 1st Place Features

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Judges
Fort Worth Star-Telegram editors Paul Moseley, David Kent and photogrphers Gregg Ellman, Jill Johnson, Ross Hailey, Rodger Mallison, Ron Ennis, and M.L. Gray. Judges plead for tighter edits and better cropping. Too much padding of daily photographs that should never have been submitted for a contest. This reduced the impact of the really good images.

F-Feature 1st Place Cream of the Crop
Photographer: Andrew Hancock, Journal & Courie
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Judges Commnets:
Inverted framing of subject grabbed the judge’s attention immediately, composition and motion helped snag first place.

F-Feature 2nd Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Commnets:
Almost perfect example of when fuzzy is perfect, nice, blurry effect gives a painting-like quality.

F-Feature 3rd Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Commnets:
This one drew us in, the more you look the more you see, yet we all hoped to see just a bit more of the adult’s face and maybe a tighter crop. Really a nice photo.

F-Feature HM Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Commnets:
Great fun moment, we’d have gone with a tighter vertical crop for impact. This is one that gets the reader’s eye.

GN-General_News 1st Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Commnets:
The funny face in the middle of hidden faces caught our eyes. The photographer caught a nice moment in a mundane event.

GN-General_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Ellie Bogue, The News-Sentinel
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Judges Commnets:
This is a touching moment and the most newsworthy of the winners. We would have liked a cleaner composition but are well aware of limited photographer mobility at these events.

GN-General_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Steve Sanchez
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Judges Commnets:
This is a funny eye catching moment.

GN-General_News HM Place
Photographer: jim rider
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Judges Commnets:
Very successful portrait using old posters and subjects body language to tell the story.

I-Illustration 1st Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
Very slim category and this was the clear winner.

I-Illustration 2nd Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
This is nicely composed and lit portait.

I-Illustration 3rd Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
This is a simple but effective picture.

Multiple_Entry 1st Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Commnets:
Nice documentation of the excitement surrounding a big even in a small town.

Multiple_Entry 2nd Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapoli
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Judges Commnets:
An all encompassing package that could have been edited a little tighter.

Multiple_Entry 3rd Place
Photographer: Jeri Reichanadter, The Indianapo
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Judges Commnets:
Adequate variety. Wanted to see more interaction and emotion.

S-Sports 1st Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Commnets:
Easily the most eye-catching image in a sea of basketball photos, and it also conveys an interesting sub-story to the game.

S-Sports 2nd Place
Photographer: Andrew Hancock, Sports Illustrat
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Judges Commnets:
Good timing and great composition that gives a viewer a lot to see.

S-Sports 3rd Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapoli
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Judges Commnets:
Nice moment of joyful jube.

S-Sports HM Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort
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Judges Commnets:
Clean composition and an angle that gives it good graphic design.

SN-Spot_News 1st Place
Photographer: Denny Simmons
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Judges Commnets:
HIlarious marsupial capture moment topped the category.

SN-Spot_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Jeri Reichanadter, The Indianapo
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Judges Commnets:
Now there’s something you don’t see everyday…

SN-Spot_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Commnets:
Unique view of victims during a news event.

SN-Spot_News HM Place
Photographer: Richard Sitler/Herald Bulletin
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Judges Commnets:
Off-beat moment at a spot news event, judges liked it for its humor.

First Place
Sam Riche
Indiana Flooding
Flooding in Northern Indiana forces many to flee their homes.

Judge’s comments: Incredible you-are-there quality, broadcast quality moments and audio, great effort in getting on boats, and in people’s homes. Might have cut some of the water sounds volume a bit. Really nice work.

Second Place
Christopher Smith
Spelling Bee
Keertan Kini of Munster tries for a second win in the Times Regional Spelling Bee

Judges comments: Top quality all the way, but our favorite for thinking ahead and planning of the shoot, the elimination of contestants, then the naming of the winner from a static camera view was fantastic. Great audio quality, very creative thinking from start to finish.

Third Place
Sam Riche
Colts vs Chargers
The Colts lost their playoff game against the Chargers, ending their season

Judges comments: A very unique shooting style lends itself to the hectic game-day atmosphere, tough enough as it is, but then Sam combined his work with staff images and great soundtrack and you have a really neat, creative way to package all of the different elements. Ran a little long here and there, tighter edits would have kept the excitement high for the short attention span of online viewers. Knockout effort for all involved.

Judges: David Kent, Assignments editor; Ron T. Ennis, Chief Photographer; Jill Johnson, Staff Photographer; Paul Moseley, Director of Photography.

All Entries

Denny Simmons
Leap Frog on Leap Day
Wacky mud jumpers

Birthday Jam
Troy Miller’s Birthday Jam

Rising water
Family fights to protect their home from rising floodwaters

Sam Riche
Indiana Flooding
Flooding in Northern Indiana forces many to flee their homes.

Indiana National Guard Deployment Ceremony
3500 Indiana National Guard leave Indiana for Iraq, saying goodbye to their families for 10 months

Colts vs Chargers
The Colts lost their playoff game against the Chargers, ending their season

Jeri Reichanadter
Parent and Child Swim Class
We look at a swim class geared at getting babies used to the water.

Guitar Hero at the Library
The Noblesville Library offers a Guitar Hero contest for teens.

Daylight Saving Time
We ask elementary school students what DST is.

Robert Scheer
Tennis With the general
Indianapolis Star reporter Will Higgins, on assignment in Iraq, plays tennis with an Iraqi general.

Flight To Iraq
The Indianapolis Star’s flight to Iraq to cover the Indiana National Guard is documented in this video.

Charlie Nye
Statehouse Paper Usage
The amount of paper used for printing proposed legislation in the General Assembly is massive. This year’s biggest challenge for legislators and print shop alike is the nearly 900-page property tax relief bill.

Matt Detrich
Historic Barn Moving
The historic Normandy Barn makes its way across 38th Street to the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Wolfe House Movers transported the giant barn in one piece that took seven hours from start to finish.

Animal Control Loses Funding
The Marion County Animal Care & Control will have to euthenize more cats and dogs as officials scramble to care for an additional 5,000 unwanted pets this year as the financially struggling Humane Society will stop accepting strays on March 15, 2008.

Chris Howell
Master piano major
Dimitris Papadimitriou, a masters piano major at the IU Jacobs School of Music, practices between classes.

Christopher Smith
Spelling Bee
Keertan Kini of Munster tries for a second win in the Times Regional Spelling Bee

Publicity Stunt Arrest
As filming of a movie starring Johnny Depp was taking place a block away, a man dressed as Jack Sparrow went to great heights to peddle his online business

Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga at St. Mary hospital in Hobart

Cream of the Crop, 1st Place Sports

Judges

The Chattanooga Times Free Press: Alli Kwesell; Angela Lewis; Brett Clark; Dan Henry; David Patrick Harding; Kelly Wegel; and Patrick Smith.

F-Feature 1st Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
Quick reaction to a humorous moment; it jumped out from the rest of the submissions.

F-Feature 2nd Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Commnets:
Humorous; included all necessary elements. Good eye to capture an unusual moment from a typical assignment.

F-Feature 3rd Place
Photographer: Don Knight
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Judges Commnets:
Judges liked repetition of color and symmetry.

GN-General_News 1st Place
Photographer: Jim Rider
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Judges Commnets:
Judges liked the layers and composition while showing sense of place.

GN-General_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Commnets:
Unique soldier image portraying a somber mood.

GN-General_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis Star
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Judges Commnets:
Photographer did a nice job of capturing an emotional moment without distracting the subjects.

Multiple_Entry 1st Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Commnets:
Nice coverage with wide variety of images.

Multiple_Entry 2nd Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Commnets:
Feel like photographer managed to document the day unobtrusively.

Multiple_Entry 3rd Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Commnets:
Nice angles; interesting subject that we had not heard of before.

S-Sports 1st Place Cream of the Crop
Photographer: Andrew Hancock, The Journal & Co
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Judges Commnets:
Right place right time, lots of emotion. Especially like that you can see the players face as well as the crowd.

S-Sports 2nd Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapoli
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Judges Commnets:
Humorous moment caught within the action. Would have liked to see a slightly more accurate white balance.

S-Sports 3rd Place
Photographer: Melanie Maxwell
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Judges Commnets:
Enjoyed the thumb in eye moment. Would have like to see a straight horizon line and tighter crop.

S-Sports HM Place
Photographer: Chris Howell, The Herald-Times
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Judges Commnets:
Nice action with clean background.

The University of Saint Francis Presents
“An Evening With Harry Benson”

The School of Creative Arts at the University of Saint Francis will
host “An Evening with Harry Benson,” who will share his photographic
experiences and technical expertise through the Canon Explorers of
Light program on Wednesday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the North Campus
Auditorium (2702 Spring St.) as part of the Closer Look Lecture
Series. A book signing will immediately follow the lecture.

Benson is known for his work with literally hundreds of the world’s
famous faces, including the Beatles, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael
Jackson, and Truman Capote. His photos of First Families - featuring
the Kennedy’s, the Clintons and others - have been on exhibit at
galleries across the nation.

A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Benson came to America with The
Beatles in 1964. He began working for LIFE magazine in 1967 and
continued with LIFE until it closed in 2002. Now under contract to
Vanity Fair, his photographs appear in major magazines throughout
America and Europe. Recently, Benson has been awarded with the 2005
Lucy International Award for Lifetime Achievement in Portraits, the
2005 American Photo Magazine Award for Achievement in Photography and
the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scottish Press
Photographers Association. Benson was also given a Doctorate of
Letters from Glasgow University in 2007.

He will narrate a slide show of some of his enduring images and
answer questions from the audience before adjourning. A book signing
will immediately follow the lecture.

This lecture is free to the public and made possible by the Canon
Explorers of Light Program, Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the
Indiana Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, contact the School of Creative Arts at 260-434-
7591 or visit the website at www.sf.edu/art.

The School of Creative Arts (SOCA) is an accredited school by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).

The University of Saint Francis, founded in 1890, is a comprehensive
university in the Catholic Franciscan tradition, offering
undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 2,100 students from
a broad geographic region.