iBOP Galley Show this Saturday

Lots of folks are putting a lot of sweat into this Saturday’s iBop Gallery
Show. We have an amazing space and lots of great work to display.

With the website being in transition I wanted to remind everyone with all
the details. Don’t let the freedom hating hackers win by not going to this
show.

When: This Saturday, July 10, from 6 - 11 PM
Where: River North Art Galleries
230 West Superior, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL

Directions:
The gallery is on the corner of Franklin and Superior but you need to enter on the Franklin side because there’s no way to get in from Superior. It is only a block or two away from the CTA Chicago Brown/Purple Line stop and about 5 blocks from the Chicago Red Line stop. There is street parking everywhere and is easily found.

If you are coming from either north or south of the city, take 90/94 to the Ohio St. exit, continue on Ohio St. and make a left on Franklin.

If you want to make a date night and take you significant/insignificant
other out to a nice dinner before he/she stands there while you talk about
cameras and complain about the incorrect address on a photo assignment then
do we have a suggestion. Club Lago (http://www.clublago.com) is really close
and they have a special menu prepared just for you. It might be the same
menu as everyone else, but special none the less. GianCarlo and Guido are
some of the coolest guys in the neighborhood.

Everyone who won anything in the contest will have work displayed. So if you
guys could help spread the word we’d really appreciate it. Tell you friends
via Facebook, twitter, or even smoke signals. Maybe lead with the free booze
part then the amazing artwork. And remember all prints are for sale and
benefit the Chuck Cass Memorial Scholarship. Photos make great stocking
stuffers.

Here’s all the members that have work on display in print:
Michael Anzaldi
Alex Garcia
Chris Walker
David Pierini
Chris Sweda
Ruthie Hauge Machacek
William DeShazer
Heather Charles
Danielle Gardner
Scott Strazzante
Beck Diefenbach
Alex T. Paschal
Matthew Grotto
John Starks
George LeClaire
Elie Gardner
Justin Fowler
Travis Haughton
Paul Beaty
Michael R. Schmidt
Joseph P. Meier
Alex T. Paschal
Rob Hart
Brett Roseman
Matt Marton

iBOP winners online

Single Image Categories

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Multiple Image Categories

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Judged April 23, 20010 at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, by:
-David Eulitt, Kansas City Star
-Josh Meltzer, Western Kentucky University
-Liz O. Baylen, Los Angeles Times

Contest administered by Allison Williams, Pioneer Press and Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald.

Convention videos online

Watch last week’s convention speakers whenever you want online at the IPPA Web channel.
Even the entire iBOP judging is on the site and can be watched whenever.

On the IPPA Web channel you will find all five speakers including Erik Lunsford from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

ippa on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

A final thanks

The IPPA would like to thank the following speakers and judges for their participation in the annual convention last weekend in St. Louis:

Liz O. Baylen, LA Times (speaker and iBOP contest judge)
David Eulitt, Kansas City Star (speaker and iBOP contest judge)
Josh Meltzer, Western Kentucky University (speaker, iBOM contest judge and iBOP contest judge)
Erik Lunsford, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (speaker)
Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bonus speaker)

Tim Lytvinenko, LUCEO Images (iBOM judge)
John L. White, St. Louis Post Dispatch (student judge)
Lauren M. Anderson, Northwest Herald (student judge)
Joel Wintermantle, freelance (student judge)

We would also like to thank the convention’s wonderful sponsors:
Nikon - Two D300S bodies
Canon - G11
Photoshelter - two standard accounts
ThinkTank - Rotation 360 bag
Camera Bits - Two copies of Photo Mechanic
Lowepro - Fastpack 350 AW bag

iBOM judge, Tim Lytvinenko

The Illinois Press Photographers Association would like to give a special thanks to Tim Lytvinenko for acting as one of the Illinois Best of Multimedia judges with Josh Meltzer.

IPPA would not be able to operate if it was not for the generous visual journalists around the country who volunteer their time and expertise.

img_0642Tim Lytvinenko (b. 1982) is a photographer and web developer based in Raleigh, North Carolina and a multimedia contributor for LUCEO Images. Lytvinenko holds a degree in computer science from the Engineering School at North Carolina State University.

After college Tim interned at the Concord Monitor and Midland (MI) Daily News before heading back to Raleigh North Carolina. He is currently exploring bridges between the internet and photography including video, stop-motion, interactive Flash, web design and social media.

Related websites

www.newtim.com
www.luceoimages.com
www.timlytvinenko.com

You can find all the results from the recent iBOM, iBOP and iSBOP contests HERE.

Notes from the iBOM judges

iBOM entrants may notice that the categories in the iBOM results are slightly different from the original categories. The judges made some decisions in the process, and we would like to share some of their observations with you.

  • We had 59 people submit more than 170 entries among the 10 categories. By far, “PRO INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PROJECT” had the most entries with 95 pieces. There were far fewer “Team” projects than ever before
  • The judges asked to combine all team (pro team slide show, pro team video and pro team multimedia project) and student categories (student slideshow, student video, student multimedia project) due to low entry numbers and quality issues in each of the categories.
  • Just a reminder, if your multimedia contest entry is market private (several were), judges can’t view it and it was disqualified. We highly suggest you don’t do this.
  • Also, if your multimedia contest entry link doesn’t work (several didn’t), your work was disqualified. We highly suggest that you post your video on Youtube, Vimeo, your personal site, or some stable, trustworthy source that you have control over and know videos won’t expire or break.
  • We’d highly suggest for future contests to only enter your best work. Just like in still photojournalism, you will be judged by your worst piece and some of the finalists for the multimedia portfolio of the year got cut because of one or two weak entries when they had several strong entries.

IPPA iBOP, iSBOP & iBOM Results

Illinois Best of Photojournalism

Spot News
1st - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Citizens Arrest”
2nd -  David Pierini, Chicago Tribune “Normal Street shooting”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Alley Suicide”
HM - Alex T. Paschal,  Sauk Valley Newspapers “Waiting for Help”
HM - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Fugitive Captured”
HM -  Joseph P. Meier “It’s All Gone”

General News
1st - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Last Look”
2nd - Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune “Inauguration”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Deported in Pink”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun  “Brianna’s Last Day”
HM -Marianne Mather, The Beacon-News “Nursing Home Veterans Honored”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune  ”Honor Flight”

Feature
1st - Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune “Homeless Dad”
2nd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune “Chicago Air & Water Show”
3rd - Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune “Visiting Daddy”
HM - Chris Sweeda, Chicago Tribune “Time for Reflection”
HM - David Pierini, Chicago Tribune “Camera shy?”
HM - Ruthie Hauge Machacek, Pioneer Press - Sun-Times Media “Breathe”

Nature and Environment
1st - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Ice Storm”
2nd - Elie Gardner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Flying peacock”
3rd - John Starks, Daily Herald “Drop It”
HM - George LeClaire, Daily Herald “Nature of Hearts”

Illustration
1st - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications “School District Power”
2nd - Matthew Grotto, Southtown Star “Hospital Food”
3rd -  Alex T. Paschal, Sauk Valley Newspapers ”Behind the Door”

Pictorial
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Kitschy Kitchen”
2nd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune  ”Nothing To See”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune  ”Lifeline”
HM -  Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune  ”Leaves in His Wake”
HM - Beth Rooney, Freelance “Rudy and his canine performers”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “8th Avenue”

Portrait & Personality
1st - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications “Ryan is at Peace”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Tjorn”
3rd - William DeShazer, Concord Monitor “Sheila Zakre”
HM - Chris Sweda Chicago Tribune “Blocked In”
HM - Beck Diefenbach, The Daily Chronicle “Swimmer of the Year”

Sports Action
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Head Game”
2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “100m Dash”
3rd - Paul Beaty, Associated Press “Cubs Collide”
HM - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “High Jump”
HM - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Fumble”

Sports Feature
1st - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Football Dejection”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Breaking the Huddle”
3rd - William DeShazer, Concord Monitor “Teresa Micals”
HM -  Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Flying Bat”
HM - Michael R. Schmidt, Joliet Herald News “Champs!”
HM- Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Four in a Row”

Sports Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “A Team Without a Home”
2nd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune “2009 Solheim Cup”
3rd - Brett Roseman, Southtown Starr “Harness Driver”

News Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “The Inauguration”
2nd - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Citizens Arrest”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Deportation Flights”
HM -  Matt Marton, Southtown Star “Heroin Victim”

Feature Picture Story
1st - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune ”Pete and Patty Plus Eight”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Being Michael”
3rd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune ”Marching to Glory”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Love is Blind”

Sports Portfolio of the Year
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press
3rd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune


Illinois Photographer of the Year Portfolio
1st - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
3rd - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press

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Illinois Best of Multimedia

PRO INDIVIDUAL SLIDESHOWS
1st - Beck Diefenbach, The Daily Chronicle “Stephen Kick’s kicking butt”
2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “Blagojevich vs. Abraham Lincoln”
3rd - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun “Becoming Santa”

PRO INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PIECES
1st - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune “Teen Mom: Planning for a better future”
2nd - Jonathan Miano, Naperville Sun “Mayor For a Day”
3rd - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune “Coach by Day, Cop at Night”
HM - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “A Tour of the Illinois State Fair”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun “Everything in Balance”

PRO INDIVIDUAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
1st - Jonathan Miano, Naperville Sun “The Little Dude”
2nd - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald “Camp I Am Me”

PRO TEAM SLIDESHOWS / VIDEO PIECES / MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
(The judges asked to combine these categories)
1st - St. Louis Post Dispatch Staff “Cardinal Culture”
2nd - Naperville Sun Staff “A Day of Remembrance”

STUDENT TEAM SLIDESHOWS / VIDEO PIECES / MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
(The judges asked to combine these categories)
1st - Julia Rendleman, Daily Egyptian “Bottoms Up”
2nd - Julia Rendleman, Daily Egyptian “Blanche Dubois”
3rd - Dan Dwyer, The Daily Egyptian “Heather’s Story”

MULTIMEDIA PORTFOLIO OF THE YEAR
1st - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune
“Coach by day cop at night”
“Teen mom planning for a better future”
“The two hour work commute on public transportation”

2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm67P6c3nr0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmIGBVYCRI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzDlhBdQhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpnutuFJuaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVJnBieXog

3rd - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun
“Becoming Santa”
“Everything in Balance”
“Sing Out Strong”
“Finding a Home”

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Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism results:

News
1st - Joseph Pocs
2nd - Evan Davis
3rd - Ned Mulka
HM - Brian Powers
HM - Julia Rendleman

Features
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brad Vest
HM - Patrick Traylor
HM - Genna Ord

Pictorial
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brian Powers
3rd - Brian Powers
HM - Brad Vest

Portrait Personality
1st - Diana Soliwan
2nd - Genna Ord
3rd - Julia Rendleman
HM - Anthony Souffle
HM - Diana Soliwan

Sports Action
1st - Brian Powers
2nd - Evan Davis
3rd - Anthony Souffle

Sports Features
HM - Anthony Souffle
HM - Chris Salata
HM - Brian Powers

Picture Story
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brian Powers
3rd - Julia Rendleman

Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism Portfolio of the Year
1st - Brian Powers
2nd - Brad Vest

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