Cream of the Crop, 1st Place Sports

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Judges
Judged by the Bellingham Herald photo staff: Katie Barnes, Phil Dwyer, Danny Gawlowski and Russ Kendall

F-Feature 1st Place
Photographer: Jeri Reichanadter, The Indianapo
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Judges Comments:
Nice sense of space with a nice moment. Bravo.

F-Feature 2nd Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star
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Judges Comments:
Fun to look at, but judges would have liked more context. Perhaps the shooter could have been in the frame?

F-Feature 3rd Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort
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Judges Comments:
Nice layers of story-telling information.

F-Feature HM Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Comments:
Nice light, nice moment.

GN-General_News 1st Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Comments:
Nice composition during news event, capturing emotion and content.

GN-General_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Comments:
Very graphic image with nice body language.

GN-General_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Andrew Laker, The Republic
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Judges Comments:
Judges appreciate the perspective on this image. Tasteful.

GN-General_News HM Place
Photographer: Steve Sanchez
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Judges Comments:
A lot of news shooting is being there and this photographer shows the tenacity necessary to succeed. What is this officer’s name?

GN-General_News HM Place
Photographer: Tim Bath
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Judges Comments:
Nice moment, nice find.

Multiple_Entry 1st Place
Photographer: Jeri Reichanadter, The Indianapo
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Judges Comments:
Well-rounded images that cover every element of this daily story. Lots of great moments and variety of perspective.

Multiple_Entry 2nd Place
Photographer: Justin Rumbach, The Herald
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Judges Comments:
Nice story; would have benefitted from a tighter edit.

Multiple_Entry 3rd Place
Photographer: Jeri Reichanadter, The Indianapo
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Judges Comments:
Great find, good reflection on current times and localization of national news. Judges particularly liked the image of two men sitting in the thrones.

Multiple_Entry HM Place
Photographer: Charlie Nye
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Judges Comments:
Interesting find.

S-Sports 1st Place
Photographer: Denny Simmons
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Judges Comments:
Far and away, this is the winning image. Great reaction of an unfortunate display of bad sportsmanship. Photographer acted quickly to perfectly frame up all elements of this story.

S-Sports 2nd Place
Photographer: Chris Howell, The Herald-Times
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Judges Comments:
Nice composition and clean background help to bring focus to this nice moment of sports action and to player’s faces.

S-Sports 3rd Place
Photographer: Amanda Lucier, The Herald
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Judges Comments:
Nice variety of emotion, great vantage point.

S-Sports HM Place
Photographer: Joseph C. Garza, Tribune-Star
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Judges Comments:
Great angle on familiar event, but needed a little bit more to place.

Cream of the Crop, 1st Place Feature

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Judges
The Journal Times, Racine, Wisconsin. Scott Anderson/Staff Photographer Mark Hertzberg/Director of Photography Gregory Shaver/Staff Photographer and Indiana native. We enjoyed judging the contest. We like the software a lot! We were surprised that there is no spot news category, or else that you have a general news one, and not overall news. News was a very strong category. Multiple was a very weak category.

F-Feature 1st Place
Photographer: Chris Howell, The Herald-Times
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Judges Comments:
This is a wonderful moment at a routine school assignment. It was a unanimous choice for first place.

F-Feature 2nd Place
Photographer: Aaron Pennock/ Tipton Argus
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Judges Comments:
This is a fun, well-edited, and well-composed picture.

F-Feature 3rd Place
Photographer: Sam Riche, The Indianapolis Star
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Judges Comments:
This photo shows that the photographer has a sense of humor, which is important. We can’t get Wisconsin squirrels to cooperate this well.

F-Feature HM Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Comments:
This is a fun photo that dropped to an HM because it needed a better crop… you could lose the people at the top, and give us a bit more on the bottom if there is more on the frame.

GN-General_News 1st Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Comments:
This is a wonderful picture with a lot to look at, highlighted by the reactions of the people in the photo. There was debate for first because it happened in front of the camera, still, the photographer stuck with it, and had a photo for the readers which was certainly one they noticed and talked about. You never know what will happen at what you think is a ho-hum assignment.

GN-General_News 2nd Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort
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Judges Comments:
This was a close contender for first. The lighting is subtle and delicate, there is good texture. The photographer looked behind the scenes for a better photograph than the standard stage shot.

GN-General_News 3rd Place
Photographer: Heather Charles, The Indianapolis Star
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Judges Comments:
A forlorn traveler is shown in an unexpected shelter photo. The low camera angle and the clutter in the background are important to the success of the image.

GN-General_News HM Place
Photographer: Jon L. Hendricks/The Times
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Judges Comments:
It was a close vote between this and a long shot of three people in the middle of a snow-covered street. The choice of lens and the framing in this photo are its strong points.

Multiple_Entry 1st Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort
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Judges Comments:
This was not only a strong story, but easily the best of a disappointingly weak category. The photographer told many aspects of the story.

Multiple_Entry 2nd Place
Photographer: Matt Detrich/The Indianapolis St
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Judges Comments:
The photographer followed the news story from beginning to end. Nice ending shot of the empty hall, shot from the back, following the nice tight shot of the two befuddled school board members.

Multiple_Entry 3rd Place
Photographer: Garet Cobb / Bedford Times-Mail
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Judges Comments:
The photo with the most potential was the photo of the jog back home in low light. It is the most memorable photo in the story.

S-Sports 1st Place
Photographer: Chris Howell, The Herald-Times
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Judges Comments:
“I love how messy the photo is! There are so many things happening in the shot,” said one of the judges.

S-Sports 2nd Place
Photographer: Scott M. Bort
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Judges Comments:
The photo is well lit and is a wonderful example of looking for the story-telling photo beyond simply following the bouncing ball.

S-Sports HM Place
Photographer: Chris Howell, The Herald-Times
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Judges Comments:
This was a close contender for third. The motion of the player starting to move in for the ball is what makes the photo.

S-Sports 3rd Place
Photographer: Rob Goebel/Indianapolis Star.
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Judges Comments:
There is nice symmetry in the action.