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Thanks to Mark Gormus, Dean Hoffmeyer, Eva Russo, Bruce Parker and Clem Britt of the Richmond Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA for judging our clips.

Don’t for get you have until March 10th to send in February’s clips. Only have received two entries so far. Just a reminder to take out all identifiers in the file info. No name of publication, city, etc.

Gerry Melendez of The State racked up the most points
in January with 162 points. Congrats.

Spot News
1st Place-Ken Ruinard Anderson Independent-Mail-01ohltg01
comments: Nice moment. We all liked it.

2nd Place-Sefton Ipock-Anderson Independent-Mail-01asdfg02
comments: Emotion captured very well

3rd Place-Randall Hill-Myrtle Beach Sun News-01mahrl01
comments: Nice attention to light

General News
1st place-Gerry Melendez-The State-02galmh03
comments: good moments from the campaign trail

2nd place-Angine Kershner-Florence News-02zebra05
comments: good visual seeing and use of color

3rd place-Angie Kershner-Florence News-02zebra04
comments: everyday assignment handled well

Feature
1st place-Sefton Ipock-Anderson Independent-Mail-03asdfg02
comments: our favorite all around

2nd place-Nathan Gray-Anderson Independent-Mail-03qwert03
comments: some visual thinking going on here. might have been cleaner with a crop

3rd place-Gerry Melendez-The State-03galmh01
comments: We’ve seen this before, but this one is still nice

Sports (not a very strong category according to judges)
1st place-Nathan Gray-Anderson Independent-Mail-04qwert02
comments: Nice face and fairly clean

2nd place-Angie Kershner-Florence News-04zebra01
comments: On camera flash and basketball should not mix, in our humble opinion. Otherwise this would be a clear first place.

3rd place-Gerry Melendez-The State-04galmh02
comments: the best of what was left

Multiple
1st place-Gerry Melendez-The State-12galmh01
comments: Far and away the most striking group of photos

2nd place-Randall Hill-Mrytle Beach Sun News-12mahrl01
comments: Please Please Please edit a little bit more. A few images here add nothing to the rest of the group

3rd place-12ekarg01-Grace Beahm-Charleston Post and Courier
comments: A couple nice, thoughtful images, but each picture often says the same thing as the others.

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Current Standings
1st…….Gerry Melendez-The State-162 points
2nd……Angie Kershner-Florence News-112 points
3rd.(tie)Sefton Ipock-Anderson Independent-Mail-92 points
Nathan Gray-Anderson Independent-Mail-92 points
4th……Randall Hill-Myrtle Beach Sun News-72 points
5th……Ken Ruinard-Anderson Independent-Mail-52 points
6th……Grace Beahm-Charleston Post and Courier-32 points
7th…..Lindsey Simple-The State-2 points
Rebecca Ducker-Florence News-2 points
Tom Priddy-2 points

February is almost over and that means its time to start thinking about clips.

Just a reminder that they will be due on the 10th of March.

That should give everyone plenty of time to gather their clips and submit them. And if they were published online, it counts!

We had a good number of people enter January, but I would like to see more so get everyone on your staff to enter.

January is being judged by the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, VA and we should be getting the results back soon.

Take Care,

Nathan Gray

The best thing about our new site is that it’s a two-way street for information. Our site last year was very limited in it’s scope. While it was nice and built in flash, it was limited in the ways that you could interact with the data and with people.

I should know, I built the site with the help of Brett Flashnick.

At our paper right now, we’re having bi-weekly roundtable discussions on new technology for our photojournalist. So far this has included recording audio and using Audacity to edit the sound. Pretty soon we’ll discuss how to effectively use Soundslides.

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Over the years, SCNPA has become one of the most valuable organizations that I’m a part of.

You’ve probably already heard a coach, professor or parent tell you “You’ll only get out what you put into it” and SCNPA is the same way. Our organization depends on each and every member to contribute their unique skills to help keep the it alive and running.

With all of the talk about what I call “newsdoom” it’s hard not to put things like our group on the back burner, but I’m making a plea that everyone takes a more active roll in our group and in their newsroomIt doesn’t matter if you’re a staff of one, or a staff of 12, there’s no reason why every photojournalist in S.C. isn’t a member of our organization. It’s times like these that we need each other more than ever.

The walls surrounding the newspaper industry might be crumbling (literally) but it’s time that we continue building and strengthening the walls of our organization. We need to continue to foster great documentary images and welcome newcomers from other papers and help them reach their full potential.

Do you remember when you were first starting out as a photojournalist at a newspaper? How great would it have been to have someone from a professional organization reach out and offer to help you out and get your feet wet?

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Ok, I got a little impatient tonight and I decided to go ahead and take our new home in cyberspace online. There is no need to run around in a complete state of panic if you are needing to look at some photos, or find some previously stowed piece of information, the previous flash site is still available at the following URL. Just point your browsers to http://www.scnpa.org/07_archive or check out some of the links we have posted in the right hand column to get your pixel fix. This new site will continue to grow, and as it does your contributions will become an integral part of that growth. I look forward to hearing any suggestions you may have to offer.

Cheers,
Brett Flashnick
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Congratulations to everyone on a successful 2007!
There are many things to get excited about as an SCNPA member for 2008.

For one, the 2009 conference will be held in Charlotte in conjunction with the Southern Short Course in News Photography. Details will be ironed out throughout the year so stay tuned.

The Southern Short Course is America’s longest-running photojournalism seminar. To celebrate its 60th anniversary SCNPA and NCPPA (the other Carolina) havebeen invited to participate and as of now, will be sharing judges with the short course for their respective contests.

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Testing, testing… 1, 2, 3… is this thing on? Ok everyone welcome to the new SCNPA ExecuBlog 2000. In the next few days I will be getting the word out to everyone about this little spot in cyberspace, and making some cosmetic enhancements. Hopefully this will work for our needs better than the existing system. I hope you all had a great time at the conference in Anderson this past weekend, sorry I couldn’t make it. Check back often, and I’ll see you around.

Cheers,
Brett Flashnick
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