Registration information can be found at:  http://www.southernshortcourse.org/

Hotel information can be found at: https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=1485052

For more information contact Mike Spencer at (901) 343-2035 or e-mail photospence@gmail.com.

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Hi All,

Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to our judges, Stacy Pearsall, Christopher Record and Michael Holahan. Thanks to everyone that attended and helped out. You can scroll through all the images from left to right. Some stories are out of order but they all have a title that tells you where they placed. See you next year.

SPOT NEWS

1^st - “CHURCH FIRE” - SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

2^nd - “FLIPPED SUV”- NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

3^rd – “COLD FOOD”- KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM – “PILEUP”- WADE SPEES/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.

HM – “DEALING WITH THE DAMAGE” – GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.

GENERAL NEWS

1^ST – “UNTITLED” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

2^ND – “ILLEGAL” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

3^RD - “RETURN HOME” - - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM - “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.

HM – “UNTITLED” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

FEATURE

1^ST – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.

2^ND - “FULL”- GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.

3^RD – “RACE THE TRAIN” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

HM – “THREE’S COMPANY” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL

HM – “UH OH” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

SPORTS ACTION

1^ST - “UNTITLED” - TRAVIS BELL/SIDELINE CAROLINA.

2^ND - “UNTITLED” - RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

3^RD – “ZONE CONE” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM – “END OVER END” - BRIAN SCHNEIDER/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY.

HM – “DIVING CATCH” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

SPORTS FEATURE

1^ST – “HAPPY GOLFERS” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

2^ND – “UNTITLED” - C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.

3^RD – PLAYER’S DANCE” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

HM – “LONE WOLF” ANGELA KERSHNER/THE ISLAND PACKET.

HM – “UNTITLED” - C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.

PORTRAIT

1^ST – “MY BEST FRIEND” - GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.

2^ND – “WAR HERO” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

3^RD – “SARGE” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

HM – “JOY” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM – “SHELTERED TEARS” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

PICTORIAL

1^ST –“OCEAN CURVES” - GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.

2^ND – “SPINNING” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

3^RD – “UNTITLED” - TRACY GLANTZ/THE STATE.

HM – “BALL TOSS” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

HM – “GRAND MOTEL” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

ILLUSTRATION

1^ST – “OUCH” - KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/THE STATE.

2^ND – “STUCK” - KIM KIM FOSTER- TOBIN/THE STATE.

3^RD – “RAILWAY” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

HM – “TAXING HABIT” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM – “ORGANIC EATS” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

PICTURE PACKAGE

1^ST – “COWBOY ACTION” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE

2^ND – “UNTITLED” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

3^RD – “CHITLINS” - ANNE MCQUARY/FREELANCE.

HM – “UNTITLED” - RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

HM – “POLAR EXPRESS” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

NEWS PICTURE STORY

1^ST – “CHURCH FIRE” - SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

2^ND – “ATLANTIC BEACH CARRIES ON” - RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

3^RD – “RECOVERY FROM THE APRIL WILDFIRES” - RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

HM – “LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

HM – “THE YEAR OF THE RAIN” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

FEATURE PICTURE STORY

1^ST – “HOUSE CALLS” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

2^ND – “DANI’S STORY” - RICH GLICKSTEIN/THE STATE.

3^RD – “OLYMPIA” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

HM – “DOGGIE WEDDING” - ANNE MCQUARY/FREELANCE.

HM – “A MONTH OF MOTORCYCLES” - RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

SPORTS PICTURE STORY

1^ST – “MASTERS” - GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

2^ND – A BOXING STORY” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

3^RD – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.

HM – “DAVID VS. GOLIATH” - RICH GLICKSTEIN/THE STATE.

HM – “FIGHT NIGHT” - SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.

MULTIMEDIA

1^ST – “HOUSE CALLS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THESTATE.

2^ND – “A BOXING STORY” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.

3^RD – “FAST BUSBOY” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.

HM – “STATE CHAMPS” - TOM PRIDDY/SPARTANBURG HERALD-JOURNAL

HM – “BARBER” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.

BEST IN SHOW

“HOUSE CALLS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE

2009 PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE

2009 RUNNER UP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE

2009 SECOND RUNNER UP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL

CLIP CONTEST PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL

Cost to enter is free for SCNPA members.

You can download application forms, contest schedule and instructions here.

Prizes will be handed out for SCNPA Photographer of the year, Best in Show and Clip Contest Photographer of the year. Door prizes will be drawn throughout the judging.

Schedule of events:

8-9 a.m. - Breakfast, coffee and bagels provided.

9-9:30 a.m. - Judging of student and individual categories begins.

Noon - Lunch for judges and staff.

1 p.m. - Still photo and multimedia judging continues, with closed portfolio judging.

5 p.m - Judges panel discussion on the state of the industry and related topics.

6:30 p.m - Awards presentation and viewing of Pictures of the year.

7 p.m. - SCNPA members meeting and elections.

7:30 p.m. - Adjourn and dinner.

If you have any questions about the contest you can email SCNPA president Gerry Melendez at gerrymelendez@gmail.com.

Contest Entry Form

download this form and mail it in or FTP it along with your entries to Rich Glickstein:

Rich Glickstein/Photo Department

The State

1401 Shop Road

Columbia, SC, 29201

FTP information

hostname: ftp.rgpix.com

username: scpoy

password:  scpoyupload

You will find all the detailed contest information in this form

2009-scnpa-poy

Cost of entry is $35 which includes a membership to SCNPA.

Membership Form

If you have any questions about the contest you can email SCNPA president Gerry Melendez at gerrymelendez@gmail.com.

Stacy Pearsall

Stacy Pearsall began her career as an Air Force combat photographer at 17. She traveled to over 41 countries, and attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. After three tours in Iraq, Pearsall shared her experiences as a female combat photojournalist on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Her work has appeared in print and television media, including Time magazine, BBC, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Soldier of Fortune and more. Pearsall’s photographs have also been featured in the Oscar-nominated PBS production, Operation Homecoming, and GQ magazine’s “This is Our War.” Pearsall was one of only two women to win NPPA’s MPOY competition, and the only woman to have earned it twice. Her images have been exhibited across America from Hollywood to New York. She is now retired from military service and currently freelances. She is the owner/director of the Charleston Center for Photography in South Carolina

Christopher Record

Christopher Record is a versatile corporate, portrait, editorial and wedding photographer whose award-winning background in photojournalism influences all of his work.

With a diverse base of clients including advertising agency Eric Mower and Associates, Farm Bureau Insurance Racing, Crosland, TradeKing, Tier One Partners, Mad GENIUS Inc., the United States Golf Association, the Professional Golfers Association, , Pass & Seymour Legrand, HGTV, the North Carolina Dance Theatre and Habitat for Humanity, Record prides himself on finding the best visual solutions for every assignment.

Record’s resume is lined with awards from the top photojournalism groups including the National Press Photographers Association, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Southern Short Course, the Society of Newspaper Design, the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and the North Carolina Press Association. He has been a North Carolina Photographer of the Year, was twice runner-up NC POY and was also runner-up Southern Photographer of the Year.

Record was the lead photographer on a team project selected as a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. The Charlotte Observer project, “Sold a Nightmare,” was a finalist for the Gold Medal for Public Service. The series focused on the area’s high rate of housing foreclosures and questionable sales practices by one of the nation’s largest homebuilders.

Record has spent the past 20 years photographing presidents, celebrities and athletes and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today and numerous other publications and books.

Record covered the Carolina Panthers from their inception to the Super Bowl in Houston. He has also covered numerous NCAA Final Four basketball tournaments, ACC basketball tournaments and many professional golf tournaments including the men’s and women’s U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, The Players Championship and The Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte.

His career has included stints at three newspapers with roles ranging from reporter, photographer, picture editor to director of photography. Record most recently spent 14 years as a staff photographer at The Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C.

He left newspapers in 2007 to concentrate on his freelance photography business.

Record accepts corporate, portrait and editorial assignments and he also does a select number of documentary weddings each year.

Michael Holahan

Michael Holahan is a staff photographer at The Augusta Chronicle. He was recently

honored in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism as an honorable mention photojournalist

of the year for smaller markets. His images have also been recognized by The Southern

Short Course, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and The Gordon Parks Photo contest.

Born: Los Angeles, CA

Childhood: Lived in the Chicago area

Teen years: Lived in Naples, Florida. Graduated from Naples High School

College: University of Florida. Earned a BA in Political Science and BS in Journalism

Internships: The Gainesville (FL) Sun; The Florida Times Union, Jacksonville, FL; Patuxant Publishing, Columbia, MD; The Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph.

Staff: The Sacramento Bee – Zoned Editions; The Augusta Chronicle (1997-present)

Family: wife, Amanda and son, Elliott, 2.

Recent awards (2008-09) from: Pictures of the Year International (POYi); NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism; The Southern Short Course; The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar; The Gordon Parks Photography Contest; Georgia AP; Georgia Press Association; Placed second in NPPA’s 2008 clip contest Region 6.

The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar website is up and running at www.photojournalism.org

It will be held December 3-5, 2009 at the Atlanta Perimeter Marriott Hotel. The annual seminar - which draws attendees from the U.S. and Canada - features workshops, a speaker series, a print auction and a photojournalism print and multimedia contest. Evenings are set aside for portfolio review and interaction with speakers, workshop leaders and peers.

The response was great and so many people enjoyed looking and buying the prints.

I wanted to thank everyone for submitting pictures, we made close to $300 and the SCPA would like us to continue the auction next year.

Thanks again,

Grace

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

We are pulling together a print auction to raise money for the SCNPA so we can increase our coffers and make our treasurer Andy Burris happy.

The money will go toward our annual conference that will be held in Columbia next year.

The auction will be held during the annual South Carolina Press Association Meeting in Myrtle Beach so that editors, reporters and the like can bid on the prints.

Please clear the use of images with your editors and remember who the audience is when selecting the images.

Send the images to me printed 8×10ish and signed, you can add a black border around the image if you like before March 11th. Call or email with questions.

Grace Beahm
Post and Courier
134 Columbus Street
Charleston SC 29464

Ken Ruinard of the Anderson Independent-Mail was the SCNPA clip contest Photographer of the Year. Sefton Ipock, Anderson Independent-Mail was runner-up. Gerry Melendez, The State was third.

Berry also received Best in Show for his feature story on Wateree Correctional Institution inmate, Joshua Reynolds, titled “Second Chances.”

The State took Staff of the Year.

I also forgot to post the illustration winners. There where only two honorable mention awards in the category. Tim Dominick, The State  for his “Connected” illustration and Rebecca J. Ducker, Florence Morning News for her  ”religion in sports.”

Congratulations to all the winners! The judges had great things to say about the work. I hope to post the judges comments soon.

Gerry