By Glenn Carpenter, UPAA President
Congratulations to Dawn Van Hall on receiving the 2012-13 Excellence in Professional Service Award from SUNY Cortland. I have known for a very long time that Dawn deserves this recognition because of her service on the Board, service as committee chair, and for her famous chocolate-chip cookies. Dawn has given of herself in order that UPAA, SUNY Cortland, and others may excel.
Photo by Jaslyn Gilbert, Radford UniversityBy Nick Romanenko, Rutgers University
Aperture Magazine has joined the UPAA family and will be sponsoring an award for the Annual Print Competition (APC). Aperture Magazine will award a subscription to the photographer who has the highest scoring print in the Personal Vision category of the APC.
The Monthly Image Competition has posted the winners for February. Check out all the winning images at the UPAA MIC.
Photo by Kelly Gorham/Montana State UniversityBy Kelly Gorham, Montana State University
By Glenn Carpenter/Moraine Valley Community College
Photos and Text by Andrew M. Daddio/Colgate University
Full Disclosure: for the past twelve years all of my personal photo gear has been Canon bodies and lenses. I used to diss on Nikon, quite heavily I may add, until the introduction of the Nikon D3, which really leveled the playing field, if not taking a quantum leap forward. I shoot with Nikon for work, and I still retain and shoot with my Canon gear, but I do on occasion consider jumping ship to Nikon...
Best of Show - Photo by Kenneth ColwellBy Mark A. Philbrick and Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo
Our own Kurt Stepnitz just started a 7 week marathon trip around the world working on a multimedia project for Michigan State University. This is the first in a series of posts chronicling his journey:
By Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo
This year we tried to create a really unique image for the annual "Christmas Around the World" Concert with the BYU Folk Dancers Company. We wanted to shoot directly down on a group of dancers with some fog and lots of different colored lights. The best way to do this was to attach our camera to a lighting bar directly above the stage and take it up 20 feet above the dancers.
Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
This year's Monthly Image Competition has been full of amazing images from the members of the UPAA. If you haven't seen them yet, check out the winners from November. The Best of Show prize went to Robert Jordan for his images called "Doorknob to the Universe" I asked Robert to share how he created the image:
I wanted to share this great behind the scenes video of Mike Ekern shooting the 2012 Football poster for the University of St. Thomas:
To see more photos from the shoot and to gain some insight into how he created these images, check out his blog post at The University of St. Thomas