• The Year of COVID-UPAA Visual Timeline

    UPAA blog 2020-21 #21 4/5/21 (photo by Sanjay Suchak, University of Virginia, April 13, 2020)

    What a year.

    A year that at times felt like a decade, and at times feels like it passed in a flash. A year of stress, loss, resilience and adaptation.

  • MIC Q&A January 2021

    UPAA Blog 2020-21 #16 - 2/17/21 (text and photos by Amanda Pitts)

    Amanda Pitts is senior photographer at (and graduate of) Grand Valley State University, a UPAA board member and Symposium host. Her General Features & Illustrations category photo "Vaccines" was voted Best in Show in the January Monthly Image Contest.

  • Seeing sports in a different way

    UPAA Blog 2020-21 #13 - 1/18/21 (photos and text by Douglas Levere)

    Douglas Levere is the photo/video manager with University Communications at the University at Buffalo. He is a longtime UPAA member who has contributed previously to the Contact Sheet and blog and has been a presenter at the Symposium.

  • Thingamajig Thursday: Camera Stand

    UPAA Blog 2020-21 #11 - 12/17/20 (photos and text by Matt Cashore)

    Matt Cashore is senior university photographer at Notre Dame and editor of the UPAA blog and magazine. (So yeah, there he goes again talking about himself in the third person...) "Thingamajig Thursday" is an occasional series on gadgets or gizmos roughly $300 or less in price that make the day-to-day tasks a little more convenient. 

  • MIC Q&A-2020 November

    UPAA Blog 2020-21 #10 - 12/4/20 (photos and text by Steven Bridges)

    Steven Bridges is senior photographer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Communications and Marketing, as well as 2020 UPAA Photographer of the Year. His sports action category photo "Smoke on the Water" was voted Best in Show in the November 2020 Monthly Image Competition.

  • MIC Q&A-2020 October

    UPAA Blog 2020-21 #9 - 11/12/20 (text and photos by Ken Bennett) 

    Ken Bennett is Director of Photography at Wake Forest University. His Campus Environment category photo "Deacon Blue" was voted Best in Show in the October 2020 Monthly Image Competition.

    Tech stuff? What camera, lens, exposure, lighting, gadgets, gizmos, etc.?

    •Fujifilm GFX100

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