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SFBAPPA aims to bring together professional and student press photographers with similar interests in career enrichment, education and social interaction. Here are some of the activities that we are planning and additional benefits of membership in SFBAPPA:

-Annual Awards Banquet
-Annual Digital Camera & Photoshop Workshop
-Annual Golf Tournament
-Annual Bowling Tournament
-Annual News Photo Contest
-Annual News Video Contest
-Annual Video Workshop
-Annual Wildland Fire Workshop
-Monthly Digital Clip Contest
-Monthly PhotoNight speakers series
-Listserv on current local photojournalism news and announcements
-Free membership for retired members
-Mentor program for students
-Press parking identification card
-Web Site: www.sfbappa.org
-Job/Internship listings
-Fund raising for photographers in need.

All this for only $30 per year ($20 per year for students)

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SFBAPPA
929 B Street
Petaluma, CA 94952

The awards were presented at the 51st Annual Awards Banquet on Sunday, April 11, at Scott’s Restaurant in Oakland. About 100 news photographers as well as photojournalism students in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento areas from every major newspaper, wire service and television station entered their work from 2009.

The Ken McLaughlin News Photographer of the Year Award:
1st place: Chris Jordan, (Fairfield) Daily Republic
2nd place: Victor J. Blue, freelance/The (Stockton) Record
3rd place: Patrick Tehan, San Jose Mercury News

Ken McLaughlin News Video Photographer of the Year:
Anne Oñate, KTVU

Student Photographer of the Year:
1st place: Adam Lau, San Francisco State University
(The Greg Robinson Memorial Award)
2nd place: Adm Golub, San Francisco State University
(The Luci S. Williams Houston Memorial Award)
3rd place: Giovanna Borgna, San Francisco State University

Spot News Photography:
1st place: Clifford Oto, The (Stockton) Record, “Rooftop Arrest”
2nd place: Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Tragedy at the Wharf”
3rd place: Bryan Patrick, The Sacramento Bee, “Losing a home”

General News:
1st place: Patrick Tehan, San Jose Mercury News, “Failing Prison System”
2nd place: Ariel Zambelich, freelance, “Tent City Couple”
3rd place: Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, “Obama Wins”

Features Photography:
1st place: Chris Kaufman, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, “BMX Riders”
2nd place: Karna Kurata, freelance, “Scraper Bikes”
3rd place: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, “Flying Formation”

Sports Action Photography:
1st place: Scott MacDonald, The Salinas Californian, “Tie-Down Roping”
2nd place: José Luis Villegas, The Sacramento Bee, “Sideways”
3rd place: Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, “Illegal Contact”

Sports Feature Photography:
1st place: José Luis Villegas, The Sacramento Bee, “Joy at the Buzzer”
2nd place: Jed Jacobsohn, Getty Images, “Phillies Victory”
3rd place: Ezra Shaw, Getty Images, “Through the Tunnel”
Award of Excellence: Ezra Shaw, Getty Images, “Riding in the Vines”

Portrait/Personality Photography:
1st place: Chris Kaufman, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, “Sea of Crosses”
2nd place: Patrick Tehan, San Jose Mercury News, “Newly Arriving Inmates”
3rd place: Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Poet”
Award of Excellence: Josie Lepe, San Jose Mercury News, “Goddess of Birth”

News Picture Story:
1st place: Renée C. Byer, The Sacramento Bee, “California Economy Crisis”
2nd place: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, “Sacramento’s Tent City”
3rd place: Ariel Zambelich, freelance, “No Place To Call Home”

Feature Picture Story
1st place: Ariel Zambelich, freelance, “I’ll Be A Beautiful Girl”
2nd place: Andri Tambunan, freelance, “Gianyar Orphanage”
3rd place: Lianne Milton, freelance, “Rebuilding Cambodia”

Best Mini-Doc Multimedia Package
1st place: Pauline Lubens, San Jose Mercury News, “Baghdad to San Jose”

2nd place: Pauline Lubens, San Jose Mercury News, “Caring for Ella”

3rd place: (Fairfield) Daily Republic staff, Mike Greener, Chris Jordan and
Brad Zweerink, “A Leader Lost”

Best Short Multimedia Piece:
1st place: John J. Green, Bay Area News Group, “Female Boxer”

2nd place: Josie Lepe, San Jose Mercury News, “Los Lupenos”

News Video Spot News Photography:
1st Place: Dean C. Smith, KGO-TV,/ABC-7 News, “Pacifica Precipice”
2nd Place: John Breedlove, KCRA, “Kayakers Rescued”
3rd Place: Da Lin, KRON, “Sandra Cantu Arrest”
Award of Excellence: Jeremy Carroll, KNTV, “Smashed Stores”

News Video General News Photography:
1st place: Jeremy Carroll, KNTV, “Scouts And Vets”
2nd place: John Breedlove, KCRA, “Looking For That Special Toy”
3rd place: Dean C. Smith, KGO-TV,/ABC-7 News, “Chess Champions”
Award of Excellence: Michael Orcutt, KCRA, “Church Break In”
Award of Excellence: Tom O’Hair, KCRA, “Shoot Don’t Shoot”

News Video Feature Photography:
1st place: Garvin Thomas, KNTV, “Clockmaker”
2nd place: Chris Bollini, KFTY, “Powell’s Sweet Shoppe”
3rd place: Greg Grinsell, KTVU, “Light Up A Life”
Award of Excellence: Jeremy Carroll, KNTV, “Vet Profile”
Award of Excellence: Jacob Jimenez, KTVU, “Abalone Poaching”
Award of Excellence: Dean C. Smith, KGO-TV,/ABC-7 News, “Booth Breakers”

News Video Sports Photography:
1st place: Chris Bollini, KFTY, “Bay Meadows”
2nd place: Alan Filippi, KTVU, “Skating Blind”
3rd place: Abraham Mendoza, KGO-TV,/ABC-7 News, “Capturing The Moment”
Award of Excellence: Alex Bozovic, KNTV, “Golf Tech”

News Video In-Depth Mini-Documentary/Series:
1st place: John Kabasakalis, freelance, “Chinese Take Out”
2nd place: Alex Bozovic, KNTV, “Cell Phone Prison”
3rd place: Tom O’Hair, KCRA, “Hunting Dogs”

News Video Journalist – On Deadline:
1st place: Da Lin, KRON, “Oakland Manhunt”
2nd place: Tom O’Hair, KCRA, “Super Sheep”
3rd place: Garvin Thomas, KNTV, “Student Photographer”
Award of Excellence: Haven Daley, AP, “Samoa Tsunami Victim”
Award of Excellence: Jeff Pierce, KRON, “Pacifica Apartment Rescue”

News Video Journalist – Non-Deadline:
1st place: Chris Bollini, KFTY, “Escape from Alcatraz”
2nd place: Haven Daley, AP, “Jamaican Olympic Skier”
3rd place: Garvin Thomas, KNTV, “Napa School”
Award of Excellence: Jeff Pierce, KRON, “Gaza Protest Composite”
Award of Excellence: Stanley Roberts, KRON, “Bay To Breakers”

News Photography Judges
Chris Detrick, The Salt Lake Tribune
Djamila Grossman, (Ogden) Standard-Examiner
Trent Nelson, The Salt Lake Tribune
Patrick Smith, (Utah) Daily Herald
Mike Terry, (Salt Lake City) Deseret News
Grayson West, Park (City) Record

News Video Photography Judges
Joseph Champ, Colorado State University
Carl Geschieder, KCOY CBS 12/FOX11, Denver
Kevin Harlan, KCOY CBS 12/FOX11, Denver
Greg Luft, Colorado State University
Zach Newton, Colorado State University
Lindsay Simpson, Colorado State University
Donald Weiting, KCOY CBS 12/FOX11, Denver
John Zuchelli, KCOY CBS 12/FOX11, Denver

Multimedia Contest Judges:
Meghan Lyden, Denver Post
Tim Rasmussen, Denver Post

More information,
Doug Duran
Contra Costa Times
News Photography Contest Director
925-708-2957
sfbappacontest@gmail.com

John Chiala
CNBC Silicon Valley Bureau
SFBAPPA News Video Contest Chairman
408-828-0377

Well-known sports photographer Mickey Pfleger passed away peacefully in his sleep Friday at a care facility near Sacramento. He was 61. He died of complications from a brain tumor.

The family plans to have a memorial service at Lands End in San Francisco sometime early next year where his ashes will be scattered.

More information on Mickey will be coming soon.

If you would like to contact his family,
Tai Pfleger (Mickey’s son) @ taipfleger@yahoo.com.

The Bay Area is filled with many of the best photojournalists in the country and the SFBAPPA Mentor Program offers young photojournalists the opportunity to learn from them. This is tough business to survive in and today’s students need more than the classroom to prepare them for the competitive world of photojournalism.

The future of photojournalism will be in the hands of today’s students. Mentoring them gives you the chance to pass down the ethics and ideals that we struggle to uphold in our newsrooms. It is not only rewarding for the students but for the professional as well. Through the exchange of ideas you will be both be inspired and motivated.

Mentee Application PDF:

Mentees guidelines:
SFBAPPA will contact you as soon as possible when we have found a mentor for you. Please be patient.

Once you have been matched up, contact your mentor by email or phone. Find out when is the best time to contact them and how. Do they prefer to be contacted by phone or by email? Email them a brief description of yourself – what level you are, what you hope to accomplish, what areas you need the most advice in, etc.

Get a dialog going. Ask them about how to put a portfolio together, how to get an internship. If you have a project or portfolio that needs editing ask for their help. Ask if it would be possible to shadow them for a day.

If possible, set up a time to show them your work for a critique. If they are too busy to meet in person then offer to send them your work by mail. Make sure to clarify how they would like to see your work presented (i.e. CD, prints, slides, DVD, video tape.)

Mentors are very busy so we recommend that you initiate contact with them. Mentors are here to help you but you must ask for it. How you treat the relationship will dictate what you will get out of it. Always remember to thank them for their time.

When you no longer need your mentor’s help let them know and schedule a closing discussion. Don’t leave your mentor wondering what happened to you.

Even when you stop meeting your mentor on a regular basis we advise you to keep in touch throughout your career from time to time. This is a small business; you are bound to run into each other again.

Mentors Application PDF:

Note: Mentors do NOT need to be a member of SFBAPPA to apply.

Mentor Guidelines:

We recommend that you stay in contact with your mentee once a month at least by phone or email. Try to meet them in person when possible. We strongly encourage that you arrange to let your mentee shadow you for a day at least once.

We recommend that mentees initiate most of the contact so let them know when and how is the best way to get a hold of you. Tell them how often you expect to hear from them, but also try to check in with them from time to time.

Please offer honest, insightful, constructive criticism to help them grow.

If unforeseen events make it unable for you to devote time to the mentor program please let us know as soon as possible.

All Participants:

Please update us on how your mentorship is going. We would like to know how this experience has helped you and if you have any suggestions to make it better.

If you have any concerns or problems with your mentorship please let us know as soon as possible.

SFBAPPA does not claim responsibility of the meeting between mentor and mentee.

Please send this application to:

SFBAPPA Mentor Chair
Alison Yin
243 Athol Avenue., Apt. #5
Oakland, CA 94606
(818) 445-3337

She is covering the Mainali family who spent 18 years living in a hut at Beldangi Refugee Camp Number Two in Eastern Nepal before beginning a new life in Oakland where several family members already resided. The U.S. government began allowing Bhutanese refugees into the country in 2008, and their Bay Area community is growing. The government helps them out with cash, MediCal and food stamp assistanc for the first eight months, and then they must support themselves. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) runs the camps in Nepal, and the latest refugee count is at approximately 108,000. Over 30,000 have voluntarily immigrated to the U.S. since the resettlement began.

Jane Tyska bio:
Primarily a still photographer, Tyska is now also a multimedia journalist at the Oakland Tribune/Bay Area News Group, using new technology to tell stories for the web. She has won numerous awards for both for stills and video.

What: SFBAPPA December PhotoNight with Jane Tyska
Where: San Francisco Exposure Gallery
Address: 801 Howard (near the corner of 4th Street across from the Moscone Center)
When: Thursday, December 9
Time: 7 p.m.
Parking: 4th and Mission streets
Cost: free but bring something to share potluck style
RSVP: none

SFBAPPA PhotoNight is a very casual get together. It’s a pot luck – so please bring something to share to eat. SFBAPPA will supply drinks and sometimes additional food. No alcohol for any students under 21.

One of the last newsreel photographers has died. SFBAPPA’s oldest Life Member Les Thomsen passed away on November 8, 2010just two days before his 70th wedding anniversary. He was 97.

In the ’50s he became a newsreel cinematographer for Paramount Pictures. Since then he worked for Hearst Metrotone News, Movietone News, USIA, NBC, & CBS. In addition to filming seven U.S. presidents, he also filmed many historic events beginning with the 1939 World’s Fair and including the 1960 Winter Olympics. Sporting events included Rose Bowls, World Series, and world record setting track events. His favorite job was being a cinematographer for Walt Disney, filming the opening ceremonies of Disneyland in 1955 and many Mickey Mouse Club newsreel stories. Les traveled the world, filming in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.

He shot in mostly 16mm and 35mm film. In later years, he built a movie theater and cinematographic museum in his home and a 7½” gauge railroad in his backyard. He was an active member of several train clubs and the International Cinematographers Guild, local 600.

Les was born in San Francisco in 1912 and spent his childhood on Rose Street in Berkeley. In elementary school he developed an interest in cinematography when he became the school projectionist.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, five children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Eleanor would love to hear recollections of Les via email: les-Thomsen@pacbell.net

By,
Al Golub
SFBAPPA Life Membership Chairman
al@golubphoto.com

General News:
1st – Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, Sex Offender
2nd – David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Rabbit Escape
3rd – Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Sound Barrier

Feature:
1st – Chris Riley, (Vallejo) Times Herald, Clear Eyed
2nd – Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Surfer
3rd – Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Water Face

Sports:
1st – Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, Pile Up
2nd – Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, Buster Jubo
3rd – Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group, Dive

Humor
1st – Mike Greener, (Fairfield) Daily Republic, Haircut
2nd – Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee, Eye Perch
3rd – Conner Jay, The Salinas Californian, Hair-Raiser

Picture Story:
1st – Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, Freedom to Marry
2nd – Jane Tyska, Oakland Tribune, Bhutan
3rd – Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee, Changing Lives

Portrait:
1st – Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee, Cambodian Child
2nd – Chris Kaufman, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Boxer
3rd – Justin Sullivan, Getty Images, Prop 8 Face

Judges were Michael Chow, Pat Shannahan, Rob Schumacher, Michael Schennum, Tom Tingle, Michael McNamarra of the Arizona Republic

Point total up to August 2010:
Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee – 230
Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group – 145
Conner Jay, The Salinas Californian – 140
Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat – 140
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images- 135
Mike Greener, (Fairfield) Daily Republic – 115
David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 85
Chris Jordan, (Fairfield) Daily Republic – 70
Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel – 70
Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee – 65
Chris Kaufman, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 40
Andri Tambunan, Freelance – 35
Robinson Kuntz, Santa Cruz Sentinel – 35
Scott McDonald, The Salinas Californian – 35
Rick Roach, The (Vacaville) Reporter – 30
Randy Pench, Sacramento Bee – 30
Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter – 25
Colleen Cummings, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 25
Tony Avelar, Freelance – 20
Michael McCollum, The (Stockton) Record – 20
Chris Riley, (Vallejo) Times Herald – 20
Ryan Chalk, The (Vacavillle) Reporter – 15
Clifford Oto The (Stockton) Record – 15
Paul Sakuma, The Associated Press – 15
Chad Ziemendorf, freelance – 15
Jane Tyska, Oakland Tribune – 10
Paul Kitagaki Jr., Sacramento Bee – 10
Joel Rosenbaum, Vacaville Reporter, 10
Lisa James, Merced Sun-Star – 5
Cindi Christie, Bay Area News Group – 5
Dean Coppola, Contra Costa Times – 5

More info,
Chris Jordan
SFBAPPA Clip Contest Chairman
sfbappaclips@gmail.com

Spot News:
1st – Justin Sullivan, Getty, Explosion
2nd – Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter, Jaws of Life
3rd – Conner Jay, The Salinas Californian, Shooting

General News:
1st – Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter, Firefighter Funeral

Feature:
1st – Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee, Vietnam Fishing
2nd – Mike Greener, (Fairfield) Daily Republic, Color Bounce
3rd – Justin Sullivan, Getty, Afghan Wrestling

Sports:
1st – David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Missed Tackle
2nd – Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee, Masters Track
3rd – Scott McDonald, The Salinas Californian, Rodeo Smash

Humor
1st – Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat, Cotton Candy Laugh

Picture Story:
1st – Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee, The Catch
2nd – Justin Sullivan, Getty, Afghan Route Clearance
3rd – Conner Jay, The Salinas Californian, Amatuers in the Cage

Portrait:
1st – David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat, Rifle Shooter
2nd – Scott McDonald, The Salinas Californian, Barrel Racer

Judges were James Nix and Jonathan Coleman, Independent Tribune (Concord, NC)

Point total up to July 2010:
Bryan Patrick, Sacramento Bee – 200
Conner Jay, The Salinas Californian – 135
Kent Porter, The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat – 130
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images- 115
Mike Greener, (Fairfield) Daily Republic – 100
Jose Carlos Fajardo, Bay Area News Group – 90
David Bitton, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 75
Chris Jordan, (Fairfield) Daily Republic – 70
Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel – 60
Randall Benton, Sacramento Bee – 65
Andri Tambunan, Freelance – 35
Scott McDonald, The Salinas Californian – 35
Rick Roach, The (Vacaville) Reporter – 30
Randy Pench, Sacramento Bee – 30
Chris Kaufman, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 30
Joel Rosenbaum, The (Vacaville) Reporter – 25
Colleen Cummings, (Marysville) Appeal-Democrat – 25
Tony Avelar , Freelance – 20
Michael McCollum, The (Stockton) Record – 20
Robinson Kuntz, Santa Cruz Sentinel – 20
Ryan Chalk, The (Vacavillle) Reporter – 15
Clifford Oto The (Stockton) Record – 15
Paul Sakuma, The Associated Press – 15
Chad Ziemendorf, freelance – 15
Paul Kitagaki Jr., Sacramento Bee – 10
Joel Rosenbaum, Vacaville Reporter, 10
Lisa James, Merced Sun-Star – 5
Cindi Christie, Bay Area News Group – 5
Dean Coppola, Contra Costa Times – 5