Winners 2009
For information about winners please go to http://www.mnpa.org/poy-2009
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Farewell
Hi Folks,
Yes it’s Minnesota photographers’ personal cheerleader again but this time she has some sad news. I am stepping down as president of MNPA. It’s actually pretty painful for me to let go. I still have so much I wanted to accomplish but it’s time. It’s time for a new president and new ideas. I [...]
Convention this weekend!
Hey folks,
Whew!! We have all been working really hard to make this weekend as fun as possible. Let me give you the highlights of convention.
Friday 6pm: CPOY judging
Saturday: POY judging and speakers during the day.
At night print auction and hot dish hoedown at the Mpls Photo Center. Bring
your favorite hotdish or something to pass around. [...]
Foto Seen this Friday evening
FRIDAY FOTO
NIGHT SEEN
We (Peter Martin & Mike Zerby) are looking to get together with other photographers and have some interesting times together looking at videos, seeing each others work, discussing what the mood takes us to, “treasure hunt” the web, and in general talk about local events, issues and technology [...]
Chain gang
Just because you’re 80 doesn’t mean you still can’t have fun. This story is by Jerry Holt.
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The Life of Riley
The Star Tribune’s Rich Tsong-Taatarii followed Riley Stearns,4, who was one of 3,000+ Americans who are waiting for a heart transplant. A heart- assist pump gave Riley a fighting chance.
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Now accepting entries
That’s right it’s that time of year again. If you are a photographer living and working in Minnesota you can enter. You also must be a member. Here are the rules. MNPA2009
Once you get your entry ready here is the web address for uploading http://murphy.sjmc.umn.edu/mnpa/entry.html
The deadline for entries is Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Renee Jones Schneider [...]
Rites of Passage
The Star Tribune photo staff has started a photo column. The latest one was done by David Joles on Caesar Marino hearing for the first time since he was seven.
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Judges
Josh Meltzer
Josh was the 2006 POY winner for the NPPA Best of Photojournalism while at The Roanoke Times. Received a Fullbright grant to live and work in Guadalajara, Mexico documenting the migration of indigenous families from rural to urban regions in Mexico. He’s now a professor-in-residence at Western Kentucky University and he has helped [...]
Convention Schedule
Convention Schedule 2010
Friday April 16th 2010
6:00pm CPOY Judging
Saturday April 17th 2010
9:00 am POY Judging (All day)
9:00 am Steve Niedorf : The Business of Photography
Steve will talk about the state of commercial photography to date, how it works and how to attempt to break into the market. He’ll go over some basic marketing and branding, [...]
Wisconsin’s convention March 13th.
The WNPA will have their judging on Friday and speakers and workshops on Saturday. Looks like it will be worth the drive. For more information, check out their website. http://www.wnpaonline.com/
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MADD volunteers
Here’s the third video the Star Tribune’s Renee Jones Schneider has done on drunk driving as part of the Smashed series.
Adam Gadach lost his leg when he was hit by a drunk driver in 2007. After months of speaking at MADD panels to DUI offenders he was joined last month by the man who drove [...]
A family tradition
Star Tribune’s Jerry Holt made this cute video on Bev and her love of ice skating.
Bev Eberhard, 76, enjoys sharing her life long passion for figure skating with her 7-year-old great granddaughter, Haylee Zellner. They also shared an instructor for their weekly lesson at the Schwan Super Rink in Blaine.
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MNPA Update: Judges announced
Josh Meltzer: 2006 POY winner for the NPPA Best of Photojournalism while at The Roanoke Times. Received a Fullbright grant to live and work in Guadalajara, Mexico documenting the migration of indigenous families from rural to urban regions in Mexico. He’s now a professor-in-residence at Western Kentucky University.
Jon Lowenstein: He specializes in log-term, in-depth projects [...]
Using music in multimedia
As a part of Fresh Eyes series by Adam Westbrook he has journalist and musician Christopher Ave talk about it. Here’s the lead in.
“What happens when you ask a film maker or a musician about the future of journalism? What skills can the next generation journalist learn from a branding expert? As part of Fresh Eyes [...]
Peterson in Vancouver: Olympics come to an end
I couldn’t think of a better way to sign off than to have somone else say it. Now I know I’ve been here too long.
Closing Ceremony.
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Peterson in Vancouver: Emotional roller coaster
Wow, what a heartbreaker. What a difference a few minutes makes.
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This little piggy
The Post-Bulletin’s photographer Elizabeth Nida had some fun with a pig. Check out her story. Here’s an excerpt.
“It’s not everyday that you see an 80-pound miniature Vietnamese pot-bellied pig waddling down the avenue. On a leash.”
http://bit.ly/aMoP6j
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Water for Haiti
Rich Tsong-Taatarii with reporter Jim Spencer spent a week in Haiti. Here’s one of the videos Rich produced from the trip.
When In Haiti, Kevin McCellan delivers 6,000 to 10,000 gallons of water a day to Cite Soleil, one of the worst slums in the world.
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Internships
Carolyn Crist, the president of the University of Georgia’s chapter of the National Press Photographers Association, is working on the official NPPA Internship list. If your new organization has an internship you want to promote this is a good place do it. I remember choosing all my internships based on this list. I told Carolyn [...]
MNPA Update: Convention
Hello MNPAers!
Some quick notes on the progress on this year’s convention, contest, and hotdish hoedown.
First things first…membership. I’m hoping again to get more of you to become members sooner rather than later. This helps with getting judges here and not just crossing our fingers and hoping we can pay for everything. It’s important as we [...]
Peterson in Vancouver: The flame
Keep the fire burnin’
Fire is so cool!
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Peterson in Vancouver: Evening lights
Heading up the hill to Whistler. Mike Russo blogging on the bus.
Look out Ansel, “Moonrise over Whistler”
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Tom Kennedy speaks
Ignore the weak visuals and just listen to Tom speak about the evolution of visual journalism. He talks about the twists and turns of his career and how those changes relate to changes in the industry.
“Former National Geographic Director of Photography and Managing Editor of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive speaks about his and the visual journalism [...]
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