Awards this Year

Awards

Here are my awards from 2017 and 2016.

2017 WNPA Better Newspaper Contest

I just found out that I won four awards at the 2017 WNPA Better Newspaper Contest this weekend.

I won first place for Color Breaking news with one of my fire photos. I won second place for Black and White Photo Essay with my alpaca photos, and I got second place for Color Sports Action with one of my wrestling photos. We also won a shared second place award for Humor in Adverstising for my photo of the Shelton Varsity Bowlers.

These are state wide awards for photos I took in our community.
Our paper the Mason County Journal won first place for General Excellence again this year. That means the Mason County Journal is the best weekly newspaper in the state!

first place for Color Breaking news 

Second place for Color Sports Action

Second place for Black and White Photo Essay

Shared second place award for Humor in Adverstising,
shared with  Journal Staff who laid out the page

Spot News and an Award

In today's newspaper:

The community voted me in on this list.  I am flattered.

There was another structure fire that I was able to reach in time this month.  One of my pictures is in the paper.  This fire was in a shed and no one was injured.  I met the property owner and she was fine with me posting photos on Facebook.

I only took one camera and lens to this fire.  I knew that I wanted to walk to this fire in the dark and I did not feel like carrying two cameras on my bicycle.  I used my old Nikon D90 with my new 70-200mm lens.  I wish my fancy lens had been on my D7100 so I could have shot at a higher ISO.  I don't feel like there is time to change lenses in the rush to reach a fire before it gets put out.   I hope to get a second D7100 but first I feel like I have to sell both of my D90's.

Such strange colors here and right off the camera