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"If I made a list of everything being a member of NPPA and entering contests have taught me, it would be a page-turner! So to say being a member has molded me into the photographer I am today would be a huge understatement. The thing I learned the most by entering the quarterly clip contest, is the importance of meaningful shots and making sure to never miss the moment."
— Angie Dones, photojournalist, WTVF
"From the workshops, the camaraderie and the contests, the NPPA has been a major factor in taking my work to a high level. The Quarterly Clip Contest and Best of Photojournalism competition set the industry standard of not just high quality TV Photojournalism, but Journalism itself."
— Jed Gamber, chief photojournalist, WBFF
"I credit NPPA for giving me the tools and training to transition from being a newspaper still photojournalist to motion. I can't say enough about the workshops. I look forward to more NPPA training."
— Annalisa Russell-Smith, visual journalist
Judges Comments
Many of the images submitted were disqualified for poor captions. If your photo wasn’t selected for this round, please consider a thorough caption for your next submission. First place: We selected this images in part because it was a good moment, and because it filled the frame nicely. It would be interesting to see what a tighter shot of just the guy’s face would look like. But overall good job! Second place: This is where good captioning makes all the difference. At first I thought this belonged in the spot news category, but after reading the caption I realized that it was in the right place. We thought this was an interesting moment, with a decent story behind it. Having the canoers in the foreground with the flooded road in the background tells the story well. Third place: Is a nice moment, again with a good caption. It is simple,clean, with a very non distracting background.