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Friday Shout-Outs (Special Saturday Edition)
Today’s shout outs are delivered on Saturday as a “special edition,” which is my way of trying to put a positive spin on the fact that I didn...
Today’s shout outs are delivered on Saturday as a “special edition,” which is my way of trying to put a positive spin on the fact that I didn’t have everything ready yesterday, when I normally do them.
Regardless, there are many people who deserve congrats this week. We’ve got contest winners, Super Bowl shooters, underwater flash antics, some Facebook slideshow action, and even a chance to play voyeur with the last roll of Kodachrome.
Shout-Outs are (normally) a regular Friday thing, and you can be part of it, too. Send us suggestions! If we think it’s worth shouting about, it will show up here in the blog on a Friday. To submit something, scroll to the bottom to see how.
CONGRATS TO WORLD PRESS WINNERS
The 2010 World Press Photo awards were announce on Friday, and at least six PhotoShelter users (names that I recognize) won prizes in the prestigious contest.
This year, a record number of 108,059 images were submitted to the contest. The number of participating photographers was 5,847, representing 125 different nationalities.
Portraits: 1st prize stories – Photo by Andrew McConnell
The jury gave prizes in nine themed categories to 55 photographers of 23 nationalities from: Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Somalia, South Africa, Spain and the US.
Winning PhotoShelter users include:
Portraits: 1st prize stories
‘The Last Colony’, Western SaharaArts and Entertainment: 1st prize singles
“Josephine Mpongo practices the cello, Kinshasa, DR Congo”
Arts and Entertainment: 1st prize stories
‘Night screening at traveling cinema, India’
General News: 1st prize singles
“Old Iron Market burns, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 18 January”
General News: 3rd prize singles
“Mexico’s drug wars: severed head of a murder victim, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 6 February”
General News: 1st prize stories
“Earthquake aftermath, Port-au-Prince, 15-26 January”
Contemporary Issues: 2nd prize stories
“The Julie Project, 1993-2010”
SUNDAYS IN CONEY ISLAND
Brian Adams, a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, has a really cool project up on his site titled “Coney Island Sundays.” I am hoping that this is a continuing project – I would love to see more.
Photo by Brian Adams
THE LAST ROLL, FRAME BY FRAME
Vanity Fair’s website published a frame-by-frame gallery of the last roll of Kodachrome to came off the assembly line before it was discontinued, which was shot by Steve McCurry.
I looked at every frame, and it was fascinating. Also, Steve travels a lot – as you can tell from the captions. That single roll of Kodachrome went from Rochester, NY, to New York City, to India, Istanbul, London, back to New York City, and then to Parsons, Kansas – the location of the only photo lab on Earth that could still process the film.
SHOTS FIRED AT THE SUPER BOWL
Of all the photographers at the Super Bowl XLV last Sunday, at least 3 of them were PhotoShelter members who uploaded photos to their archives immediately after the game.
Photo by Rob Tringali
Rob Tringali: Super Bowl XLV photosDavid Stluka: 2011 Super Bowl XLV photos
Jason O. Watson: Super Bowl XLV – Packers vs Steelers photos
All three somehow managed to survive the halftime show. Whew.
WHAT’S NEXT? UNDERWATER WEDDINGS?
Daniel Houghton specializes in shooting weddings with a photojournalistic style. But he’s also a bit of a mad photo scientist, too. The Bowling Green-based photographer also figured out how to fire his high-powered strobe units using PocketWizards while underwater.
After he wrote a post on his blog describing how he managed to do this (and survive) the folks at PocketWizard picked up the story and wrote about it too, “Daniel Houghton in the Water.”
FACEBOOK FACELIFT
Check out the Facebook page of photographer Nathan Armes – he embedded a PhotoShelter slideshow of his images into his fan page. Nice touch.
Armes is a Denver-based editorial and commercial photographer who seems to have a little Facebook know-how.
I am always looking for things to include here in our Friday Shout-Outs – so if you have anything you think is worthy, let me know. One great way to do that is to post a note to Twitter with my name in it (@heygrover), and that way I won’t forget it later. Don’t have Twitter? Email me: grover-at-photoshelter-dot-com.
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