January 2009 Clip Contest Winners and Standings

Here are the January results. Alan Hawes and Gerry Melendez were the big winners for the month.

Thanks to Brian Cassella, Daniel Wallace, and editor Jack Rowland at St. Petersburg Times in Florida for judging.

Start getting your February clips together to send into me soon.

Would like to have them by the 10th! Sooner you get them to me, sooner I get them out and judged with results.

SPOT NEWS:
1st: Alan Hawes-Post and Courier — Best emotion, with tight composition and contextual framing.
2nd: Nathan Gray Anderson Independent-Mail — Interesting moment with dog emerging from truck.
3rd: Ken Ruinard Anderson Independent-Mail — Interesting moment

GENERAL NEWS:
1st: Rebecca Ducker-Florence Morning News — Great find, a different moment with real expression.  Creative composition.
2nd: Alan Hawes-Post and Courier — Great moment and emotion.
3rd: Alan Hawes-Post and Courier — Strong emotion, but photo would be much stronger cropped into a vertical to remove white corner.

FEATURE:
1st: Gerry Melendez-The State — Creative, clean composition
2nd: Rebecca Ducker-Florence Morning News — Great moment, suffered from clutter in the composition.
3rd: Gerry Melendez-The State — Nice background find.

SPORTS:
1st: Gerry Melendez-The State– Great moment with variety of expressions from young wrestlers.
2nd: Jeff Blake-The State — Nice catch, getting great emotion out of a coach on the sidelines.
3rd: Alan Hawes-Post and Courier — Clean action moment, different for basketball.

MULTIPLE:
1st: Grace Beahm-Post and Courier — Contained the best compositions and editing of the entries.  Several nice photos and varied viewpoints.
2nd: Grace Beahm-Post and Courier — Last 3 photos are strongest, suffered from mixture with other frames.  Several displays of strong emotion.
3rd: Angie Kershner-Florence Morning News — Variety of compositions from a straightforward event.

2009 Standings
1. Alan Hawes-Post and Courier          152 points
2. Gerry Melendez-The State                132 points
3. Rebecca Ducker-Morning News        92 points
4. Grace Beahm-Post and Courier         92 points
5. Nathan Gray-Independent-Mail         42 points
6. Jeff Blake-The State                              42 points
7. Ken Ruinard-Independent-Mail          32 points
8. Angie Kershner-Morning News           32 points
9. Sefton Ipock-Independent-Mail              2 points
10. Heidi Heilbrunn-Greenville News       2 points
11. Melissa Haneline-Post and Courier   2 points
12. Jonathan Dyer- Island Packet             2 points