1st Place
Doug StricklandChattanooga Times Free Press
2nd Place
Mark ZaleskiFreelance
3rd Place
Jim WeberThe Commercial Appeal
Judges:
Bob Hallinen/Alaska Dispatch News, Anne Raup/Alaska Dispatch News, Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News, Young Kim/Alaska Dispatch News
Judges Comments
This category overall could have benefited from a much tighter edit.For childbirth, we were confused by the choice of first image, it seemed out of place in an otherwise chronological story. Otherwise beautiful photos. Graduation had a number of really nice moments. A tighter edit would have made it stronger. Music fest had too many images that diluted the stronger ones