2006 Student Shootout Winner
Jessica Bowman, IUPUI
 

Congratulations go out to Jessica Bowman, Marcos Dominguez and Chris Bucher. These three are the winners of the first ever Indiana News Photographers Association Student Shootout, all three are IUPUI students. The task at hand was to do a Day in the Life of something or someone of their choice.

Bowman took 1st place with her story on a slaughterhouse. Dominguez took 2nd with his package on a news gathering team. Bucher took 3rd with his story on Devon, a 4th-grader with ADHD.

Bowman was awarded a nifty camera bag from ThinkTank. Dominguez won a ThinkTank card holder and a book from the Detroit Free Press. Bucher won a ThinkTank card holder.

Photo of students courtesy IUPUI, John Gentry.

The Indiana News Photographers held judging for their 2006 still photo contest in Indianapolis, Feb. 23 and 24 2007.

Judges were:
Heather Stone, The Chicago Tribune, staff photographer
Rick Wilson , The Florida Times-Union, staff photographer
Dale Omori, The Cleveland Plain Dealer , staff photographer

2006 Contest Best of Show
David Pierini, The Herald, Jasper


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Best in Show
David Pierini, The Herald, Jasper, IN

Photographer of the Year

David Pierini, The Herald, Jasper, IN
2nd place – Matt Detrich, The Indianapolis Star
3rd Place – Christopher Smith, The Times of Northwest Indiana

Best use of Pictures by an Indiana Paper
The Herald, Jasper

Sports Portfolio

Matt Detrich, The Indianapolis Star
Runner up: Justin Rumbach, The Herald (Jasper, IN)

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Judges for the 2006 INPA Still Photo Contest (2/23 & 24 in Indianapolis) will be:

Heather Stone, staff photographer The Chicago Tribune

Heather Stone has been a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune since April, 1998. She been assigned to cover a wide variety of stories around the world, ranging from the Sydney Olympics, the funeral of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah to home design in Tokyo.

Before joining the Tribune, Stone was a staff photographer at The Detroit News and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Previously she had interned at The Washington Post, The Standard-Examiner (in Ogden, Utah), The Commercial–Appeal (Memphis, TN) and The Tennessean (Nashville, TN).

Stone is a cum laude graduate from Western Kentucky University with bachelors’ degrees in French and Photojournalism. She also attended the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France, for one year.

Rick Wilson , staff photographer The Florida Times-Union

Rick Wilson is a native of Troy Ohio graduating from Troy High School in 1985. He started is photographic career at THS shooting for the high school paper and the yearbook. While in high school Rick also started working part time for the Troy Daily News covering high school sporting events, Ohio State and Cincinnati Bengals football games and Cincinnati Reds games.

After high school Rick attended the University of Missouri and Ohio University graduating from OU in 1990 with a degree in visual communications. He did numerous internships for the Troy Daily News, The Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette Times and the Providence Journal in Providence, R.I. Upon graduating College Rick returned to the Troy Daily News as a staff photographer then becoming Chief Photographer.

Rick has since held chief photographer positions at the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, Arizona and the Lewiston Sun Times in Lewiston, Maine before excepting a position as the lead Jaguars/sports photographer at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fl.

He has been at the Times-Union since May of 1995. Rick has covered every Jacksonville Jaguars game in the teams’ history as well as numerous SuperBowl games, Daytona 500s, college football national championship games, PGA golf tournaments and professional tennis tournaments.

Dale Omori, staff photographer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Dale Omori has been a staff photographer at The Plain Dealer since 1989.  Before that he worked at the Cincinnati Post.  His career began at The Kettering-Oakwood (Ohio) Times, after graduating from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.