2023 Q3 Singles
Khai Le
Quarter 3 judge, RoSS FRANKLIN
General News
First Place: Brandon Richardson, Long Beach Post
Second Place: Ringo Chiu, Freelance
Third Place: Thomas R. Cordova, Long beach post
Honorable Mention: RINGO CHIU, FREELANCE
Honorable Mention: DAVID SWANSON, AFP
Feature
First Place: Cristina KLENZ / FREELANCE
Second Place: RINGO CHIU, FREELANCE
Third Place: Thomas R. Cordova, LONG BEACH POST
Honorable Mention: Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News
Honorable Mention: Michael Nelson, Freelance
Honorable Mention: Ringo Chiu, Freelance
Portrait
First Place: Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times
Second Place: Cristina Klenz, Freelance
Honorable Mention: Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles dAILY nEWS
Third Place: Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles dAILY nEWS
HM: cRISTINA kLENZ, fREELANCE
HM: cRISTINA kLENZ, fREELANCE
Pictorial
First Place: SARAH REINGEWIRTZ, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
Second Place: ringo chiu, freelance
Third Place: Thomas R. Cordova, Long beach post
Honorable Mention: Genaro Molina, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Honorable Mention: AMY GASKIN, FREELANCE
Spot News
First Place: David Swanson, Agence France Presse
Second Place: David Swanson, Agence France Presse
Third Place: Ringo chiu, freelance
Honorable Mention: RINGO CHIU, FREELANCE
Entertainment
First Place: Genaro Molina, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Second Place: SCOTT MITCHELL, FREELANCE
Third Place: SCOTT MITCHELL, FREELANCE
honorable mention: ringo chiu, FREELANCE
honorable mention: ringo chiu, FREELANCE
Sports Features
First Place: GENARO MOLINA, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Second Place: KEITH BIRMINGHAM, PASADENA STAR-NEWS
Third Place: KATHARINE LOTZE, GETTY
HONORABLE MENTION: pATRICK FALLON, AFP
HONORABLE MENTION: DAVID SWANSON, AFP
HONORABLE MENTION: YANNICK PETERHANDS, FREELANCE
Sports Action
First Place: CRISTINA KLENZ, FREELANCE
Second Place: RINGO CHUI, FREELANCE
Third Place: RINGO CHUI, FREELANCE
honorable mention: GINA FERRAZZI, LOS ANGELES TIMES
honorable mention: KATHARINE LOTZE, GETTY IMAGES
FIRE
FIRST PLACE: DAVID SWANSON, AFP
SECOND PLACE: DAVID SWANSON, AFP
HM: PATRICK FALLON, AFP
THIRD PLACE: DAVID SWANSON, AFP
HM: PATRICK FALLON, AFP
Judge’s Notes & Bio
FEATURE
Solid category! Some excellent images.
First place: So nice. Sweet moment. Patient in hospital but still putting on makeup.
Second place: A nice moment not many photogs are ready for.
Third Place: Vivid color and reflection makes this a winner.
HM1: Hard to get image perfectly framed.
HM2: Great time of day feature with a nice, quiet moment. Would have liked a tighter crop.
HM3: Nice clean background weather feature.
PORTRAIT
By far the toughest category to judge. So many excellent portraits!
First place: Nice, classic portrait. Great angle and nice exposure to show off the interior/background.
Second Place: In the classic style of the old Life Magazine portraits of the 1930’s and 1940’s this is a beautiful image.
Third Place: Simple use of light and contrast. The subtle hands in pockets and foot up and smile of John Waters makes this a winner.
HM1: This photo continues to bring out the personalities of the subject. This image shows a power and determination in the subject. Bravo!
HM2: The soft light and the yellow and gold makes this work so well.
HM3: Nice light and contrast creating a noire-like mood.
ENTERTAINMENT
First place: Like the jump kick, and an odd reaction/peak action at a classical venue
Second place: Nice light and interaction of artist w/guitar. Would have liked a tighter horizontal crop.
Third place: Nice action/reaction of bass player.
Honorable Mention1: Nice red light separation from crowd to stage. Better tighter crop would have made better impact.
HM2: Nice detail. Interesting.
GENERAL NEWS
First Place: This image jumped out quickly. Shadows jumped off the clean concrete background.
Second Place: Showing an impactful but lighter side of an arrest on a big story.
Third Place: Nice image, with depth of field separating the main subject nicely at peak moment.
Honorable Mention_1: Nice juxtaposed image with picket line below the Hollywood billboard.
Honorable Mention_2: Nice image, hard to get at the border showing impact like this.
PICTORIAL
First Place: First image in the category that jumped out. The lines are arches frame nicely.
Second Place: Blue background, bike and moon. All three elements come together nicely.
Third Place: Nice sunet image with silhouettes all doing something different.
HM1: Nice sunet image with silhouettes all doing something different.
HM2: This is a cute shot and the photographer was looking out for it I can tell. Wish the background was a bit less distracting.
SPORTS ACTION
First place: Peak action at an unusual event separates this image into a winning combination. Time of day light and nice clean background also helps. The best of the bull fighting images.
Second place: Nice clean peak action with nice expression bringing the eye right into the heart of the image.
Third place:Beach volleyball dive in the rain with sand flying. So many good things going on in this frame.
HM1: Beach volleyball dive in the rain with sand flying. So many good things going on in this frame.
HM2: Nice peak action in excellent time-of-day lighting.
SPORTS FEATURE
First place: Nice, different, and beautiful use of light.
Second place: Mookie in the agony of defeat. Nice solitary moment. Nice reaction shot but I would have cropped out the ref.
Third place: Nice reaction shot but I would have cropped out the ref.
HM1: Nice jubilation reaction image.
HM2: Nice jubilation reaction image.
HM3: Nice under water image with nice lines of arms and legs.
SPOT NEWS
First Place: Was hoping to see this in the singles category! Yes, clear winner when viewed in the Photo Essay category. Wonderful moment.
Second Place: Nice drone angle. All the elements create a great image. A lot of emotion in this arrest photo. Nice job getting in there.
Third Place: A lot of emotion in this arrest photo. Nice job getting in there.
HM: Another arrest photo but this one had less emotion but the photographer came in closer.
FIRE
First Place: Great flames with uncluttered background. Silver cross is subtle but noticeable.
Second Place: Lots going on here and it’s all good. Helicopter in background, each hotshot doing something different in a pleasing-to-the-eye element on the diagonal hill.
Third Place: Impactful image at night showing the rage of the fire with hotshot looking at the overwhelming scene.
HM1: Excellent image showing devastation and one home perfectly intact. Seeing this is hard enough. Getting it right in an aerial shot another difficult task.
HM2: Nice image. Tighter crop would have made the guy on the street with his blue chair pop better.
Meet our judge, RoSS FRANKLIN
Ross Franklin; staff photographer with Associated Press in Arizona
2006-Present: Ross Franklin has worked for the Associated Press as Photojournalist and a Video storyteller for 18 years. Specializing in sports and news providing both stills and videos. Including pro and college sports and local to national election/political coverage.
1987-2005 He worked at the Washington Times covering politics. 2000-2005 he worked as an adjunct profession for The Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C.
In 1987, he graduated from Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. BS in photojournalism and a minor in history.
AWARDS:
2018 Associated Press Photo of the Month---John McCain funeral
2012-2016 Arizona Photojournalism Awards---Sports and News awards
2002 Pulitzer Prize runner-up as part of the staff of The Washington Times covering the DC Sniper story
1991-2004 White House News Photographers Association Awards--- Sports, News and Features awards
1986-2005 National Press Photographers Association---Sports, News, Feature