5-1-2006 — Scott Strazzante, a photojournalist with the Chicago Tribune is spreading the word regarding Christine Mladic, a Chicago-area photographer and personal friend who will live in a Chilean orphanage and lead a class that teaches orphans how to express themselves through photography. Here is Mladic’s letter, and her call for help.

My name is Christine Mladic, and I am a photographer from Chicago who
will be going to Santiago, Chile in August through an organization
called Voluntarios de la Esperanza.

I will be living at an orphanage, and will be directing a class to
encourage the children to express themselves creatively through
photography.

For this reason, I would like to collect 40 point-and-shoot digital
cameras, either new or used. If possible, any digital cards that are
compatible with donated cameras would be greatly appreciated.

If you or anyone you know has a digital camera available for donation,
please contact me directly - the children, the organization, and I will
greatly appreciate your generous contribution! I thank you in
advance for your help.

Here are two websites that will explain more about the organization and
my intentions:

http://www.active.com/donate/voluntariosesperanza/cmladic
http://www.voluntariosesperanza.org

Sincerely, Christine Mladic
christinemladic@yahoo.com

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(4-25-2006) Post-Crescent photo editor Dwight Nale records audio along the shores of the Fox River near Water St. in Appleton on Thursday, April 20, 2006. Nale later combined the captured audio with scenic still images he shot of the Fox River, producing an audio slideshow with the Soundslides program for postcrescent.com. / Post-Crescent photo by Mike De Sisti

See his slideshow:

http://pcr2r.blogspot.com/

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(4-14-2006) - John Maniaci of the Wisconsin State Journal takes over as the WNPA Clip Contest Chair. He will assume his responsibilities beginning with April clips. (you know…the ones you submit during the first week in May)

When you send your April clips in, send them to this new address:

John Maniaci
WNPA Clip Contest
Wisconsin State Journal Photo Department
P.O. Box 8058
Madison, WI 53708

Maniaci takes over for Peter Zuzga of CNI Newspapers, who volunteered as clip chair for the last few years.

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(4-13-2006) - Winning images in the February 2006 WNPA Clip Contest are now available for viewing in an online gallery.

You can access that gallery HERE

You may notice a change in the format of gallery presentation. Monthly galleries are now being produced using Slide Show Pro, a Macromedia Flash-based slideshow gallery program. The new gallery format allows for larger images when compared to the previous gallery format and also adds the function of playing automatically for the viewer.

You may also notice that some of the feature multiple winners are displayed as broadsheet page layouts. If you are interested in submitting a page layout for a feature multiple winner, submit your entry as a .PDF format and it will be posted in the next month’s gallery.

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(4-12-2006) - On Monday, the National Press Photographers Association published a report expressing the organization’s frustration over a recent NFL ruling which bans local television crews and their cameras from the sidelines of NFL game during gameplay. Here is part of NPPAs report:

DURHAM, NC (April 10, 2006) – The president of the National Press Photographers Association has sent a letter to National Football League commissioner Paul Tagliabue, as well as to the 32 NFL team owners and each team’s public relations director, expressing NPPA’s “extreme disappointment” in the NFL owners’ recent unanimous vote to ban local affiliate television photojournalists from sidelines during games.

“We believe this decision is extremely short-sighted,” Alicia Wagner Calzada wrote on behalf of NPPA. “We call for the NFL and the league’s individual teams to reverse this destructive decision. We further propose that you work with industry groups like NPPA to create a solution that balances the needs and concerns of the NFL with the needs of the local media to properly cover your teams.”

The NFL’s 32 team owners voted during their spring meeting in Orlando, FL, at the end of March to adopt a new policy that removes local television affiliates from the sidelines of all NFL games. Television photojournalists from local stations in the NFL teams’ area will no longer be allowed to shoot from the sidelines during the game, preventing them from capturing game action images to show on news and highlight shows. Their vote on the Broadcast Cooperation Resolution came as a complete surprise to television news directors and sports producers at affiliate television stations in NFL cities, who were unaware that the NFL was even considering such action.

Read the story on NPPA

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(4-11-2006) Earlier this year, Evan Siegle of the Green Bay Press-Gazette had the opportunity to spend nearly a month in Torino, Italy as he covered the 2006 Winter Olympics. See a slide show of some of his work over that period of time.

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(4-6-2006) - Mike DeVries, a staff photographer for the Capital Times in Madison, Wis. has an image featured on MSNBC.com Pictures of the Week photo gallery for March 23-30.

DeVries’ took his image at the snowy funeral of 21-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Anderson. Anderson died in early march automobile accident during military activity in Afghanistan.

Way to go Mike!

See his image in the Week in Pictures photo gallery

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(4-5-2006) - BALTIMORE, MD - Thomas James Abercrombie, 75, a legendary National Geographic magazine photographer and writer, and an NPPA life
member who joined in 1952, died Monday afternoon at Johns Hopkins Hospital
following heart surgery.

Abercrombie was on the magazine’s staff for 38 years. For the October 1966
issue of the magazine he took the first photographs of Mecca published in
the Western world. He joined National Geographic in 1956 five years after
graduating from Macalister College in St. Paul, MN, with a degree in art and
journalism. Before National Geographic he was a staff photographer for The
Milwaukee Journal, where he was Newspaper Photographer of the Year for his
portfolio in 1954.

Full Story Online At:
NPPA Online

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(4-4-2006) - February clip contest standings are now updated on the WNPA website. They are as follows:

2006 February Standings:
Mark Hoffman Journal Sentinel 290
Corey Wilson Press Gazette 185
Dan Lassiter Janesville Gazette 145
Bruce Halmo Sheboygan Press 105
John Maniaci Wisconsin State Journal 105
Dan Powers Post-Crescent 90
Marc Larson Press-Gazette 90
Gregory Shaver Journal Times 80
William Glasheen Freelance 80
Steve Kinderman Leader-Telegram 55
Ron Kuenstler Community Newspapers, Inc. 50
Sharon Cekada Post-Crescent 50
Kevin Poirier Kenosha News 50
Brad Rupert Press Gazette 40
Michelle Stocker Capital Times 40
Kirk Wagner Post-Crescent 30
Sam Castro Sheboygan Press 30
Evan Siegle Press-Gazette 15

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(4-4-2006) - February results in the 2006 WNPA clip contest have been announced. Check them out below:

Feature- single.
1st. Mark Hoffman
2nd. Mark Hoffman
3rd. Dan Lassiter
HM. Dan Lassiter
HM. Bruce Halmo

Spot News.
1st. Ron Kuenstler
2nd. Bruce Halmo
No third or HM’s.

Portrait.
1st. Corey Wilson
2nd. B.A. Rupert
3rd. Dan Powers

General News.
1st. Dan Lassiter
2nd. Steve Kinderman
3rd. Corey Wilson
HM. Steve Kinderman
HM. Mark Hoffman

Sports.
1st. John Maniaci
2nd. H. Marc Larson
3rd. Mark Hoffman
HM. John Maniaci
HM. Mark Hoffman

Feature Multipal
1st. Bruce Halmo
2nd. Mark Hoffman
3rd. Mark Hoffman
HM. Corey Wilson

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