1st Place
Smiley N. PoolThe Dallas Morning New
2nd Place
Tom FoxThe Dallas Morning News
3rd Place
Ronald ErdrichAbilene Reporter-News
Judges:
Rick Wiley/Arizona Daily Star, Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star, Rebecca Sasnett/Arizona Daily Star, Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star
Judges Comments
This was unusual in that there were images here that stood out without blood and guts. First place caught our eye as an unusual image of somebody getting a cellphone photo of a shooting at an airport that framed a tough assignment in a different way; second has a touch of incongruous humor - a man consoling another next to fully engulfed burning taxi cab; third was just funny, the person searching in an overturned vehicle in a creek bed, but it was made a tougher read from a very loose crop.