• There are 5 categories: news, feature, sports action, sports feature, portrait/personality

• Photos should be sized at 10 inches on longest side, 240 dpi at highest.

• Naming conventions: use the first 3 letters of your last name, category, then number: lastname_category_number.jpg example, picture entered in sports action category: ebe_sportsaction_01.jpg

• File caption in “file info;” be sure to include your name in “photographer” field. We can’t award points if you don’t tell us who you are!

• There is no limit on entries, however, use your judgement- send only your best work.

• Log on the pj server and drop files on the “NPPA Clip Contest” for submission.

DEADLINE: Wed., Feb 10 at noon.

• After the Herald decides the winners, we’ll post them up in the lab and on this blog.

• At the end of the semester, after points have been accumulated for the series, there will be a prize for the winning photographer.

The Kentucky News Photographer Association annual seminar and contest was held Jan. 22 and 23 in Lexington, Ky. WKU did very well in the student division as well as in the professional division. Highlights of the contest include Scott McIntyre being named College Photographer of the year and Philip Andrews was runner-up. Ben Severance was awarded a special recognition Judges Award. Out of 54 possible awards given in the student competition, WKU received 45 of them. Also, in the professional division, Josh Meltzer, our newest faculty member, was runner-up for Photographer of the Year and Jeanie Adams-Smith won Best of Show. James Kenney and Tim Broekema also placed first in the Pictorial and New Media categories. To see all of the results please visit the awesome KNPA website! Be sure to support your state and join KNPA and enter next years contest.

The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to non-professional photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Our goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.

We will offer one grant in 2010. The application deadline is March 15, 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award.

Applicants must be non-professional photographers who derive less than 50% of their income from photography or photography-related activities. The grant is open to photographers over 21 years of age from any country worldwide, but applicants should have a proven ability to produce outstanding imagery, as well as the background necessary to carry out their proposed project.

Getty Images believes that photojournalism is a powerful tool for telling compelling social, political and cultural stories. Getty also understand that creating and managing world-class photography assignments requires time, freedom, support and considerable resources.

Since 2005, Getty have awarded five Grants for Editorial Photography annually to professional photojournalists. Each grant provides $20,000, plus editorial, logistical and promotional support. We also award four student grants of $5,000 per year to photojournalism students at accredited schools.

Professional award applicants must be currently engaged as a professional journalist and apply as an individual. This grant will fund new work from both established and up-and-coming photojournalists.

Student award applicants must be under the age of 30 and currently enrolled in photojournalism courses at an accredited college or university.

For more information and guidelines please visit:

http://imagery.gettyimages.com/getty_images_grants/overview.aspx or contact us with questions about our Grants for Editorial Photography at grants@gettyimages.com.

Deadline: May, 15, 2009

Photo by David Gillanders   •   2008 professional recipient