December 2009 Clip Contest Winners
February 3, 2010
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The December 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times -- Abayneh winces as the prototype arm is placed on his right stump, the end of which is sensitive because nerve endings extend beyond the bone. The artificial arm will leave a gap or bubble at the end to take care of the problem.
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- Spot News
- 1st
- “AFTER FIRE HUG”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 2nd
- “APARTMENT FIRE”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 3rd
- “Waiting at the ICU”
- Cliff DesPeaux
- .
- General News
- 1st
- “Did The Right Thing”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “Amanda Knox Guilty On All Counts”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 3rd
- “Fatal Fire Blessing”
- Meegan Reid / The Kitsap Sun
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- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “Frosted Marsh”
- Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News
- 2nd
- “Rapper On Stage”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “The Perfect Gift”
- Robert Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News
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- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “The Gift of an Arm, and Hope”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “Chronic Inebriate Series”
- Eric Engman / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 3rd
- “Protests of COP15”
- Mark Malijan / Mark Malijan Photography
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- Sports
- 1st
- “Ice Halo”
- Robert Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News
- 2nd
- “Hanging On For Dear Life”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- 3rd
- “State Champ”
- Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News
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- Illustration
- 1st
- “Off to See the Wizard”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 2nd
- “Bike Lights”
- Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “Ready to Eat”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
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October 2009 Clip Contest Winners
February 3, 2010
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The October 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Andy Sawyer/Yakima Herald-Republic -- Eisenhower's Brooke Brown stretches for a dig during the Cadets' 4A district volleyball match against Walla Walla Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009.
- Spot News
- 1st
- “FIRE HUG”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 2nd
- “Looking for her child”
- Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World
- 3rd
- “Fire Investigation”
- Robert Brawdy / Tri-City Herald
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- General News
- 1st
- “press conference”
- Janet Jensen / The Tacoma News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Cheers for principal”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 3rd
- “One Man Homeless Protest”
- Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News
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- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “PUMPKIN MAN”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 2nd
- “Mud Ball”
- Cliff DesPeaux
- 3rd
- “Dia de Muertos”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
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- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “New Western Washington Wine”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “EARLY MORNING COMMUTERS”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 3rd
- “Dayspring Ministries”
- Paul Erickson / Tri-City Herald
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- Sports
- 1st
- “Volleyball dig”
- Andrew Sawyer / Yakima Herald-Republic
- 2nd
- “Fumble”
- Meegan Reid / The Kitsap Sun
- 3rd
- “Chiawana”
- Richard Dickin / The Tri-City Herald
September 2009 Clip Contest Winners
February 3, 2010
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The September 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Janet Jensen/The News Tribune -- Erika Napier, 6, attends the Citizenship Day Naturalization Ceremony at Fort Lewis, Friday, September 18, 2009. Maricel Napier, Erika's mother, from the Philippines was among the 31 participants from 23 countries who became U.S. citizens.
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- Spot News
- 1st
- “Duplex Fire”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 2nd
- “Log fire 1”
- Gordon King / Yakima Herald-Republic
- 3rd
- “Consoled at Car Wreck”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
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- General News
- 1st
- “A scrum pursuing chum”
- Peter Haley / The News Tribune/Tacoma
- 2nd
- “Dove release at 9/11 ceremony”
- Robert Brawdy / Tri-City Herald
- 3rd
- “Fiery Food Festival”
- Paul Erickson / Tri-City Herald
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- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “citizenship”
- Janet Jensen / The Tacoma News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Round ‘n Round”
- Paul Erickson / Tri-City Herald
- 3rd
- “Bulldogs”
- Richard Dickin / The Tri-City Herald
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- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “Sacia’s Promise”
- Mark Mulligan / The Daily Herald
- 2nd
- “Stryker Brigade Homecoming”
- John Wagner / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 3rd
- “Farewell to Emus”
- Daniel Schreiber / The Chronicle
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- Sports
- 1st
- “The Eyes Have It”
- Lui Wong
- 2nd
- “Off to a Fast Start”
- Eric Engman / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 3rd
- “Scoring on the Fly”
- Ric Ernst / The Province
- .
- Illustration
- 1st
- “Manscaping: Hair removal for guys is becoming trendy”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Athlete of the Year”
- Philip Dwyer / Bellingham Herald
- 3rd
- “Twin Peaks Tradition”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
August 2009 Clip Contest Winners
February 3, 2010
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The August 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Kai-Huei Yau/Tri-City Herald -- Mike Iverson of Pasco holds the hand of a trapped 15-year-old girl Tuesday at the scene of a rollover accident on westbound Highway 240 near the Columbia Center Boulevard exit. The girl's aunt, Irene Castro, was driving and was also trapped. Both suffered non-life threatening injuries and were transported to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. "That's a good example of why you wear your seatbelts," said Washington State Patrol Sgt. Roger Wilbur. Iverson was one of several passersby who stopped when they saw the accident.
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- Spot News
- 1st
- “Helping Hand”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 2nd
- “A mother’s grief”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 3rd
- “A Little Help”
- Brandon Swanson / The Chronicle
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- General News
- 1st
- “Town Hall Meeting”
- Robin Loznak / The News-Review
- 2nd
- “The Kiss”
- Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “The run of Humpbacks begins”
- Peter Haley / The News Tribune/Tacoma
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- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “SUNSET CAR WASH”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- 2nd
- “Hair-Raising Experience”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 3rd
- “Tattoo Self-Portrait”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
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- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “In The Garage”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “A Day To Run”
- Eric Engman / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 3rd
- “Relocating Newtok”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
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- Sports
- 1st
- “Rough Ride”
- Paul Erickson / Tri-City Herald
- 2nd
- “Heals over head”
- Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World
- 3rd
- “In the Rough”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
July 2009 Clip Contest Winners
February 3, 2010
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The July 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Anne Raup / Anchorage Daily News -- Subsistence fishermen use dipnets to pull red salmon out of the Kenai River Tuesday July 14, 2009. Dozens of dipnetters found a healthy slug of fish beginning their journey up the river to spawn. In the distance, Redoubt Volcano continues to steam, although the eruption level has been downgraded.
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- Spot News
- 1st
- “Historic Store Burns”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Wildfire”
- Anne Raup / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “FIRE RUBLE”
- Larry Steagall / The Sun
- .
- General News
- 1st
- “Tree Sitter”
- Robin Loznak / The News-Review
- 2nd
- “One Last Go Round”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- 3rd
- “Praying For Dad”
- Lui Wong
- .
- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “Water explosion”
- Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World
- 2nd
- “Dog Slide”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 3rd
- “Passes Slick Test”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
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- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “Summer of Abundance”
- Anne Raup / Anchorage Daily News
- 2nd
- “A smashing good time”
- Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World
- 3rd
- “New Citizens Born On The 4th of July”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- .
- Sports
- 1st
- “Ear Pull”
- John Wagner / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 2nd
- “Oh No!”
- Lui Wong
- 3rd
- “Rolling Throw”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
June 2009 Clip Contest Winners
September 3, 2009
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The June 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Alan Berner/The Seattle Times: Street performer Bruce Holton spends more time and effort moving his piano than playing. The arrow points the way to the Pike Place Market as Bruce Holton moves his 475-pound upright to the elevator for another one-hour gig in front of the original Starbucks.
- Spot News
- 1st
- “Rollover rescue”
- Robert Brawdy / Tri-City Herald
- 2nd
- “Water main floods homes”
- Joshua Trujillo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- 3rd
- “Homeowner Battles Blaze”
- John Wagner / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- General News
- 1st
- “Destroyed career”
- Joshua Trujillo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- 2nd
- “Last day group hug”
- Drew Perine
- 3rd
- “Final test”
- Robert Brawdy / Tri-City Herald
- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “Adaptability”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “Reggae Dancer”
- Robin Loznak / The News-Review
- 3rd
- “Musical notes”
- Katie Barnes
- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “Piano Man’s Moving Experience”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 2nd
- “Northern Edge”
- Bill Roth / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “Celebrating Laura Baron’s Life”
- Lui Wong
- Sports
- 1st
- “Perilous Course”
- John Wagner / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 2nd
- “Down and dirty”
- Jenna Hauck / The Chilliwack Progress
- 3rd
- “Leaping finish”
- Joshua Trujillo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Illustration
- 1st
- “grains and beans”
- Janet Jensen / The Tacoma News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Dual Violinists”
- Kai-Huei Yau / Tri-City Herald
- 3rd
- “Sinatra tribute”
- Philip Dwyer / Bellingham Herald
May 2009 Clip Contest Winners
September 3, 2009
Filed under Competitions, Featured Stories, Monthly Clip Contest
The May 2009 winners of the regional digital clip contest. Links to the winners appear below.

Rob Kerr/The Bulletin: Bend High reacts to Lava Bear sophmore Chris Zelmer's walk-off grand slam against Hillsboro in the second round of the Class 5A state baseball playoffs. Bend won 9-8.
- Spot News
- 1st
- “Body Recovery”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
- 2nd
- “Log Home Burns”
- Eric Engman / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- 3rd
- “After the Fire”
- Sam Harrel / Fairbanks Daily News-miner
- General News
- 1st
- “Police Officer Memorial”
- Tony Overman / The Olympian
- 2nd
- “Tribes Say Too Many Horses”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 3rd
- “OMG, its Dad!”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- Feature/Single Picture
- 1st
- “Training wheels”
- Drew Perine / The News Tribune
- 2nd
- “Cheering On Grandpa”
- Alan Berner / Seattle Times
- 3rd
- “Deep In A Hole”
- Eric Engman / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- Feature/Multiple Picture
- 1st
- “Opening Day for Copper River Salmon Fishery”
- Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News
- 2nd
- “Tulip Time!”
- Brandon Swanson / The Chronicle
- 3rd
- “Creek study”
- Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World
- Sports
- 1st
- “Grand Slam!”
- Rob Kerr / The Bulletin
- 2nd
- “Freestyle Flip”
- Erik Hill / Anchorage Daily News
- 3rd
- “Ouccccch”
- Lui Wong
Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at BVJC
July 9, 2009
Filed under Featured Stories, Regional News
Getty Images’ John Moore to Speak at
Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference July 17-18
June 19, 2009
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — John Moore of Getty Images, whose gripping photographs of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in late 2007, earned him two first-place World Press Photo awards, will be among the presenters at this year’s Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference.
Moore was the sole American journalist present when Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Earlier this year he was named 2008 “Magazine Photographer of the Year” from Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and was awarded “Photojournalist of the Year” from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).
The conference will take place at Western Washington University on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18.
Moore joins a lineup of presenters that also includes Michel du Cille, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post; Seattle Times photojournalist Alan Berner, NPPA Region 11 2008 Photographer of the Year; Meredith Birkett, senior multimedia editor for special projects at MSNBC.com; and Scott Mc Kiernan, CEO/founder of ZUMA Press and publisher of DOUBLEtruck Magazine and zReportage.com.
Also presenting will be multimedia photojournalist Wes Pope, most recently at The Rocky Mountain News; Heidi de Laubenfels, deputy managing editor for strategy and product development at The Seattle Times; and Jim Seida, senior multimedia producer at msnbc.com.
The conference is co-sponsored by Western Washington University’s Department of Journalism and The Bellingham Herald.
Leaders in the field of visual journalism, including video and still photographers, multimedia producers, agents, and online editors, will share their expertise. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore new avenues for visual storytelling, upgrade their skills, and have their portfolios critiqued by professional visual journalists.
Two concurrent and intensive multimedia workshops, one on producing audio slideshows and the other on shooting video, will be offered Friday, July 17. Cost of each workshop is $100, and space is limited; registration is first-come, first-served.
The conference is offering free registration for Saturday’s speaker series and a catered lunch to all visual journalists who have been laid off from their jobs in the past year. Proceeds from a silent auction of photographic prints will help offset those costs. If you have been laid off and you are coming, please let us know so we can order enough lunch.
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- Both days (workshop and presentations): $150.
- Professionals for Saturday’s presentations only (includes lunch): $75.
- Students for Saturday’s presentations only: $50.
Registration fees:
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More information: http://www.wwu.edu/visualjournalism/
Contacts:
John Harris, Bellingham Visual Journalism Conference director, (360) 650-6140, john.harris@wwu.edu;
Russ Kendall, BVJC Co-director, (360) 255-1014, russkendall@aol.com,
Marissa Doiron, event coordinator, (360) 650-4436, marissa.doiron@wwu.edu;
Carol Brach, journalism department manager, (360) 650-3252, cbrach@hope.journ.wwu.edu
Russ Kendall, Picture Editor
The Bellingham Herald and TheBellinghamHerald.com
1155 N. State St., Bellingham WA 98225
Voice: (360) 715-2265
Fax: (360) 756-2826
E-mail: russ.kendall@bellinghamherald.com
Convergence ‘09 Live
June 9, 2009
Filed under Featured Stories, Regional News
The NPPA Convergence in Las Vegas is live. Check out several features from a constantly updated live blog, flickr account, and periodic live video stream.
Go to live.nppa.org for coverage of the national conference.

Navigating the Downturn – It’s a wrap and a podcast
May 11, 2009
Filed under Education, Featured Stories, Regional News
| Navigating The Downturn: Seattle
Listen to the panelists by clicking on the links below. The three podcasts will be provided over the next week and a half. Each episode is straight from the workshop with audience participation included and are approximately an hour long.
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SEATTLE — Region 11 of the National Press Photographers Association hosted “Navigating The Downturn: A Photography Survival Discussion,” on May 9, 2009, in downtown Seattle.
The event organized by past NPPA President, Tony Overman, to help Region 11 members who are feeling the impact of the economic downturn.
“A photojournalist who is out of work feels pretty alone,” NPPA’s vice president Sean D. Elliot, said. “Without the camaraderie of the newsroom we are prone to feeling disconnected. The Internet, a message board, a Webinar, an eMail list, can only help so much. Getting together, 10 or 15 or 30 of us at a time, to hear some advice on building a business plan and to ask questions and to complain and moan if necessary, is a lot more helpful to the individual. The idea is to help build local, grassroots connections.”

From left, freelance photographer Craig Mitchelldyer, former NPPA president Tony Overman, and freelance photographers Rod Mar, Karl Maasdam, and (not pictured) Rich Frishman speak during a NPPA seminar entitled "Surviving the downturn" Saturday May 9, 2009 in Seattle, WA. The speakers discussed changing focus from the newspaper market to the future of freelance photographer, in front of two-dozen photographers. (photo courtesy Daniel Berman)
“With the near-collapse of the newspaper industry there is a glut of former newspaper photographers determined to keep doing what they do best,” Overman said, “but they don’t have the training and knowledge of business ownership, proper pricing, negotiating, handling contracts and taxes, and determining the true cost of doing business. An influx of ill-prepared photographers into the freelance market is in no one’s best interest.”
Special thanks go to Navigating the Downturn’s panel, which included Craig Mitchelldyer, an editorial, portrait, and wedding photographer based in Portland, OR, who is a former newspaper staff photographer; Rod Mar, team photographer for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders, a former Seattle Times staff photographer to took a buy-out from the paper; Karl Maasdam, a portrait and wedding photographer who left his job as the chief photographer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 2004 to start his own business; and Rich Frishman, an editorial and annual report photographer from Seattle. Overman moderated the panel.
The workshop model set up in Seattle may be part of a larger national NPPA endeavor to host similar workshops in their regions based on a planned program template, of which the Seattle program is the first.
NPPA executive director Jim Straight says a request has been sent out to NPPA volunteers to organize similar programs in their own regions.
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Visual editor Charles Apple has written an excellent blog post about what to do if you’ve lost your job. It’s online here.
Text from this post was modified from the nppa.org site.

