AUGUST 2012 SFBAPPA Monthly Digital Clip Contest Winners:
Spot News:
1st - Conner Jay, (Fairfield) Daily Republic, Burned home reaction
2nd - Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter, Firefighter in red
3rd - Chris Riley, (Vallejo) Times Herald, Cyclist crash
General News:
1st - Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Grieving mother
2nd - Nate Chute, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Sikh Prayers
3rd - Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Wings Over Wine Country Air Show
Feature:
1st - Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee, Peering through fence
2nd - Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Beware of Dog
3rd - David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Backstage
Sports:
1st - Nate Chute, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Quarterback grief
2nd - Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Shortstop block
3rd - Paul Kitagaki Jr., Sacramento Bee, Fencing celebration
Humor:
1st - Chris Riley, (Vallejo) Times Herald, Young tipper
2nd - Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, Penalty flag fart
Portrait:
1st - Paul Kitagaki Jr., Sacramento Bee, Blind artist Mary Dignan
2nd - Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group, Mercy Vanaman
3rd - Gregory Urquiaga, freelance, Cheerleaders
Picture Story:
1st - David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Miss Yuba-Sutter
2nd - Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee, Cocktails
3rd - Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Grape Harvest
Judges were the photo staff of the Register-Guard.
Judges comments: It was a pleasure to judge the work. Several categories (features and sports) had many strong entries. In general news, our collective bias was toward photographs conveying strong emotion. Portrait/illustration was by far the most difficult category and generated a long discussion to arrive at the winners. Several otherwise good pictures stories were diminished in impact because of a lack of tight editing.
Nate Chute, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat - 205
Chris Riley, (Vallejo) Times Herald - 185
David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat - 135
Susan Tripp Pollard, Bay Area News Group - 120
Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group - 115
David Royal, Monterey County Herald - 105
Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee - 105
Renée C. Byer, Sacramento Bee - 80
Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat - 60
Michael McCollum, The (Stockton) Record - 60
Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel - 55
Conner Jay, (Fairfield) Daily Republic - 50
Doug Duran, Bay Area News Group - 50
Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter - 50
Rick Roach, The (Vacaville) Reporter - 45
Gregory Urquiaga, freelance - 40
Paul Kitagaki Jr., Sacramento Bee - 40
Travis Geske, The Salinas Californian - 40
Elijah Nouvelage, San Francisco State University - 35
Clifford Oto, The (Stockton) Record - 30
Jane Tyska, Bay Area News Group - 20
Charles Russo, Half Moon Bay Review - 15
James Tensuan, Santa Cruz Sentinel - 15
Gary Reyes, San Jose Mercury News - 10
Scott MacDonald, freelance - 10
Robinson Kuntz, (Fairfield) Daily Republic - 5
