Midwest – June 2025 – Spot News

Judges Comments

First place has some nice reaction / emotion from the first responder, second from right. You could consider a tighter crop and lose the guy on the far right and come down from the top to top of the plane engine at left. Second place could use a tighter crop perhaps more as a vertical and just focusing on the one vehicle.

Judges: Matthew Hinton/Freelance for AP and USA Today/ former staff photographer and photo editor, Rusty Costanza/Freelance Photographer / former educator and staff photographer 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for Katrina coverage at the Times-Picayune, Brett Duke/Staff photographer Times-Picayune / Nola.com 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for Katrina coverage at the Times-Picayune