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By Bob Riha Jr. lost in the mail, please contact rooms is Jan. 20, 2011. PPAGLA President Dinner Co-Chair Joel Lugavere We have some great items reminders at [email protected]. You can for our Award Dinner Raffle due y now, you should n Return your election also contact Joel for additional to the generosity of our spon- have received your ballots by Dec. 25. raffle tickets to purchase before sors and supporters. Jet Blue Official PPAGLA n Make reservations our Awards Dinner! WE WANT has donated (2) two round-trip Ballot that will decide for March 19th Awards YOUR IMAGES! We are ready tickets to anywhere they fly! Bour next PPAGLA Board of Dinner. to begin accepting images for Virgin America has donated (2) Directors. Members are to select our 75th Anniversary Historical round-trip tickets to any U.S. seven individuals from our listed Awards Dinner onboard the Photo Exhibit during the entire destination they fly! Plus we’ll nominees to represent you and Queen Mary, March 19, 2011. month of March 2011. Members have a 42” HDV monitor for a our entire Association. All Bal- Please be prompt in returning are encouraged to upload your winning number and much more lots are due back no later than your reservations. It will be favorite images today at www. too! Raffle tickets help support December 25, 2010. Nominee a memorable evening as we ppagla.org by decade category. our Association throughout the list can be found on page 7, of celebrate 75 years of the Press We still have discounted year, as does renewing your this e-JOM Jr. newsletter or at Photographers Association of rooms available onboard the membership today! www.ppagla.org. If you did not Greater Los Angeles. In addi- Queen Mary for the evening of With 2010 slowly fading into receive your ballot and feel it is tion, it is my pleasure to share our March 19th Annual Awards the sunset, we can begin looking lost in the mail, contact Bal- with you that longtime UP, UPI Dinner. Rooms start at $99 for forward to 2011. lot Election Chair Jim Ober at: and AFP photographer and photo PPAGLA guests. Contact Queen Sincerely, [email protected] editor Carlos Schiebeck will be Mary reservations at (562) 435- Invitations to our 75th An- honored as PPAGLA’s Lifetime 3511 and ask for Reservations. niversary Annual Awards Dinner Achievement Award Winner Tell Reservations you are with were also mailed to you along recipient for 2011. If you feel the PPAGLA Group for March with raffle tickets and details for you did not receive your Awards 19th. The cutoff date for Queen our 75th Anniversary Annual Dinner Invitation and feel it is Mary/PPAGLA discounted Bob Riha, Jr.

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By John McCoy sure way to get noticed as an actor was to Chairman of the Board get your client photographed for the news- papers and wire services. And PPAGLA uried deep below the stars on was there. Hollywood Blvd. rests a piece of Our organization has had a variety of PPAGLA legacy. transformations in our history. B In fact, our relationship with Holly- No, its not your chairman of the board, it’s a copy of the 2009 Just One More wood is intertwined deeply in our organi- Yearbook. zations past. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce At one time, our organization was is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the known as the Hollywood Press Photogra- walk of fame and has placed a time cap- phers Association. sule under the terrazzo at the intersection When the Daily News called upon me of Hollywood and Highland on Oct. 28. to cover the time capsule ceremony, I took The location was selected because it is advantage of the opportunity to lobby Ana the place where the very first star was ever Martinez, the Vice President of Media placed on the walk of fame. Relations/Producer for the Hollywood Joanne Woodward’s star will be keep- Walk of Fame. ing watch over the time capsule for the I gave her a sales pitch about the his-

John McCoy next half century. tory of PPAGLA and persuaded her to Fifty years ago the PPAGLA was one drop one of our books in the capsule. Ana Martinez, Vice President of Media Rela- In 50 years, some Hollywood scholar tions/Producer for the Hollywood Walk of of the main vehicles for celebrity pub- Fame, puts a copy of the Just One More licists to get the faces of their famous will dig up the capsule, and research just Yearbook into the time capsule that was bur- clients in front of the world. who and what put the items into the thing. ried under the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Back in those days, before the Oscars And they will find, among many other capsule will be opened in 50 years. items, a copy of our yearbook. and Emmys were household words, one Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 3 4 Just One More, Jr. • december 2010 Watchara Phomicinda Jane Oncea Marilyn Chung Jennifer CappuccioMaher Carlos Delgado Eric Tom Paul Roa Mark J.Terrill Sean Hiller John Valenzuela Danny Moloshok Ringo H.WChiu John McCoy David Pardo Karen QuincyLoverg Christina House Thomas R.Cordova Hans Gutknecht Will Lester Keith Birmingham Stan Lim Terry Pierson Mark Zaleski 2010 Contestpoints Steven Felschundneff LP_AllPro_Press Photo:LP_AllPro_PressPhoto1/28/101:03PMPage1 Through october2010 Point st A d v a n c e V d i P d i

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5 Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise Just One More, Jr. • december 2010 monthly contest results / news PPAGLA Student PJ Day 2010 ore than 40 stu- dents and profes- sional photogra- phers gathered at MPierce College on Saturday, Nov. 6 for a PPAGLA-hosted Student Photojournalism Day in Wood- land Hills. The “Great Hall” at Pierce College was used as guests lis- tened to photojournalists Brian College Pierce Louis Heredia, Vanderbrug, Los Angeles Times naire, while PPAGLA vice presi- photographer; Ann Johansson, dent Art Quezada brought along award-winning photojournalist; Univision’s LIVE ENG truck. and freelance photojournalist Quezada and Ober gave students

Todd Bigelow talk about assign- Photos by B ob Riha Jr. a 20-minute presentation on ments and their work. Art Quezada, above, shows Univision’s LIVE ENG truck at PPAGLA’s older and current live broadcast Students had their portfolios Student Photojournalist Day at Pierce College. Top Right, judges Mark vans abilities and equipment. judged by PPAGLA members Terrill, Richard Dirk, Rob Gauthier and John McCoy rate portfolios. The PPAGLA Student Pho- including Rob Gauthier, Richard tojournalism Day was organized Dirk, Mark Terrill, John McCoy portfolio award for his portfolio to PPAGLA. by Board member and educator and Ringo Chiu. images. A historic display of “Media Gerard Burkhart, with sup- Pierce College student Louis Joel Lugavere and Jim Ober Vehicles” included Jim Ober’s port from Board Members and Heredia claimed the $500 top signed up new student members 1963 Studebaker Lark Wago- members.

Third Place October 2010 Stan Lim judges: Laura Oda, Cindi The Press-Enterprise Christie, Kristopher Skinner, Jane Tyska, Mark DuFrene of Sports the Bay Area News Group-East Bay (Contra Costa Times/Oak- first Place land Tribune) Will Lester Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Feature Second Place first Place Mark Zaleski The Press- Enterprise No Name Third Place Second Place Terry Pierson Mark Zaleski The Press-Enterprise The Press- Enterprise Honorable Mention Third Place Will Lester Mark Zaleski Inland Valley Daily Bulletin The Press- Enterprise Honorable Mention Portrait Terry Pierson The Press-Enterprise first Place Keith Birmingham News Pasadena Star-News Second Place first Place Christina House, Freelance Will Lester Inland Valley Daily Third Place Bulletin Terry Pierson Second Place The Press-Enterprise Keith B irmingham/Pasadena Star-News

Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 Mark Zaleski Honorable Mention Kathy Carvellas, a self-taught collage, assemblage and mixed media artist, 6 The Press- Enterprise Ringo H.W. Chiu, Freelance with her self portrait “Mindfull” that was on display at the Altadena Library. news board of directors candidates ominees for our upcom- news and entertainment events taries. He is a member of the of the board in 1981.He has been ing Board of Directors in the area. Beginning his career Academy of Television Arts and on the current board for the past NElection Ballot have at the Tyler Courier Times-Tele- Sciences and a member of the six years as Editor of JOM, contest been finalized and were mailed graph in Tyler, Texas, in 1983, UCLA Alumni Association. chair person and dinner chair for out just before Thanksgiving. Buck spent six years as a staff the past three years. As you can see from the names photographer at the newspaper Diandra Jay below, we have an incredible before relocating to Dallas, Jim Ober list of nominees and we should Texas, in 1990. Over the next 15 Diandra Jay has been with the all be thankful and honored years as a freelance photogra- Long Beach Press-Telegram for Jim Ober is currently on the these individuals are stepping up pher, he would cover assignments 10 years. She started her career as board of Directors, and served to represent our members and for UPI, AFP and EPA as well as a part-time lab tech/photographer as President in 1984, He has Association. They are all to be numerous editorial and com- while attending Cypress College. been continuously involved with commended. mercial clients. In 2006 Buck ac- After graduating from CSU Ful- the PPAGLA since he joined in PPAGLA members must now cepted a staff position with EPA lerton in 2005, she gained full- 1971 and served as Treasurer in decide which seven individuals and relocated to Los Angeles. time status as a photographer. 1972, He was the editor of Just below you would like to elect to One More for many years, and our upcoming 2011-2012 Board Dave Fernandez is currently the Ad Chairman for of Directors. Voting will be done David Hume Just One More. He is a gradu- via snail-mail ballots. All Ballots Dave Fernandez has 34 Kennerly ate of Mt. Carmel High School will be due back no later than years of television experience and Pepperdine College, and Dec. 25, 2010. in the news industry — 28 of David Hume Kennerly has learned the newspaper business And The Nominees are: those years at KNBC-TV in Los been a shooter for more than there and during his four years Angeles. Fernandez has won sev- 45 years. He has photographed of high school in the Scholastic Mario Anzuoni eral awards for his videography eight wars, and as many U.S. Sports Assn. that was part of (Peabody, Edward R. Murrow, presidents. He first joined the the Los Angeles Examiner. In Mario Anzuoni has been a Local Emmy’s and Golden Mike PPAGLA in 1967 after moving 1968, while still in college, he senior staff photographer with Awards) and has been very active to Los Angeles from Oregon to went to work for the L.A. Herald Reuters News Pictures since with the Press Photographers take a staff job at UPI. At 25, Examiner until 1979 when he 2005, based in Los Angeles. He of Greater Los Angeles. He has he won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize started his own business, Track- was born and raised in Naples been a member of PPAGLA for for his photos of the Vietnam side Photo, which specializes in and worked as a photographer more than 20 years, including the War. Two years later, he was off-road racing photography. He in Italy before moving to Los past four years where he served appointed President Gerald R. also was a principal in a p.r./ad Angeles when he was 25. Mario one term as Vice President and Ford’s personal photographer. agency, Dietrich, Ober & Rettie, has worked as an entertainment is current Video Committee co- He was a contributing editor at Inc., whose clients included BF- photographer since 1997 and chair and member. Newsweek for 10 years, and a Goodrich and Cosworth Racing joined Reuters in 2005. contributing photographer for Engines. He continues his photo Louis Gabriele Time & Life magazines. He has work running Trackside Photo Bob Bessolo authored five books, and most and his hobby is working on his Louis Gabriele has been recently produced, and was a vintage Studebakers. Bob Bessolo was born and the West Coast Regional Vice principle photographer of, Barack raised in Los Angeles. He started President for NABET-CWA, the Obama: The Official Inaugural Arturo Quezada in news in 1977 at KCBS-TV Broadcast and Cable Union since Book. Kennerly is on the Board (then KNXT). After a short run 2009. He is also running for Lo- of Trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Chief Videographer at at KSL-TV in Salt Lake, he cal 53 Treasurer. Over the years, Foundation, the Atlanta Board of KMEX/Univision- Los Angeles. returned to L.A. and eventually after graduating from UCLA with Visitors of the Savannah College Current vice-president and past became KCBS-TVs first chief a BA in Fine Arts, he worked of Art and Design, (SCAD), and board member. photographer. Bob previously as a film cameraman, producer, the Eddie Adams Workshop. His served on the board once in the writer, editor and director, gather- archive is housed at the Dolph Nick Ut 1990s. In 1994 he joined CBS ing experience in videotape, Briscoe Center for American His- News in affiliate services (CBS digital and non-linear systems. tory at the University of Texas, Huỳnh Công Út, known Newspath) where he is currently Meanwhile NBC News was his Austin. He is a member of the professionally as Nick Ut, is a on staff. He has three children home for more than 30 years Canon top shooters group, “Ex- photographer for the Associated and lives in Westlake Village. working on news and documen- plorers of Light.” Kennerly and Press (AP) who works out of taries and lastly as the West Coast his family live in Santa Monica. Los Angeles. His best known Paul Buck Supervising Editor/Engineer photo is the Pulitzer Prize-win- for NBC Network News. After Joel Lugavere ning picture of Phan Thị Kim Paul Buck is the Los Angeles/ retiring from NBC in 2001, Louis Phúc, who was photographed Southern California bureau chief Gabriele became a freelance Joel P. Lugavere is a retired Los as a naked 9-year-old girl run- and staff photographer for the (Daily Hire) Consultant. During Angeles Times photographer (32 ning toward the camera to flee a European Pressphoto Agency. his career he was honored with a years). He was on the PPAGLA South Vietnamese napalm attack His responsibilities include the Golden Mike and an Emmy for Board of Directors in 1978-79, on the Trảng Bàng village during Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 planning and coverage of sports, his work in News and Documen- President in 1980 and Chairman the Vietnam War. 7 july contest photos Christina House/freelance

third place, feature, july: April Sabucco helps organize old crates that were used to house books to sell or reuse at Landmark bookstore Acres of Books, which shut down in 2008, in Long Beach.

first place, news, july: An Ontario police of- ficer tasers Jesse Del Rio for obstruct- ing officers during the search for a burglary suspect in the 1300 block of Balboa Avenue in Ontario on July 22. Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010

8 Daily B ulletin Will Lester/Inland Valley july contest photos

Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise Second place, news, july: Protesters against the mosque turn away Joelle Budzynowski of Anza. She wanted them to hear her message of peace and love during a protest outside The Islamic Center of Temecula on July 30.

Mark Zaleski/The Press-Enterprise Second Place, Feature, July: Sammiah Young, 5, of Moreno Valley cools off while playing in the Main Street Pedestrain Mall water feature in Riverside.

honorable mention, sports, july: San Francisco Giants’ Buster Posey (28) scores past Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Russell Martin (55) on a double by San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval (48) in the third inning during a Major League baseball game at Dodger Stadium on July 19 in Los Angeles. Keith Birmingham/Pasadena Star-News Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 9 August contest photos

honorable mention, sports, august: Cristobal Arreola of Riverside, right, battles against his opponent Manny Quezada, of La Junta, Co., during their 12 Round WBC Mexican National Heavyweight Cham- pionship at the Citi- zens Business Bank Arena in Ontario on Aug. 13. Stan Lim/The Press-Enterprise

first place, feature, august: Celes Gould, left, and Wyatt Turk, both of Ojai, dive down from above on the Zamperla ride on the last Fri- day of the Ventura County Fair. Karen Quincy Loberg/ Ventura County Star Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 10 August contest photos

Thomas R. Cordova/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin first plsce, news, august: Rita Nelson reacts as photos of her husband Chief Fred C. Nelson are shown on the big screen during a memorial service for the retired fire chief at the Ontario Convention Center on Aug. 17.

Stan Lim/The Press-Enterprise honorable mention, portrait, august: World War II veteran and pilot for the B-17, Vern Grim, of Sun City poses for a portrait at the March Air Museum in Riverside on Aug. 12.

second place, sports, august: Manuel Gonzales executes a kick at the Punt,

Pass & Skills competition at the Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard. Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 Karen Quincy Loberg/Ventura County Star 11 September Contest Photos

honorable mention, news, september: A Riverside City College cheerleader is helped a by another cheerleader after being over come from the 100 degree plus heat as Mt. SAC beat Riverside 38-10 during a football game in Hilmer Lodge Stadium at Mt. San Antonio College , September 25, 2010 in Walnut. Keith Birmingham/Pasadena Star-News

second place, news, september: A San Bernardino County Fire Fighter battles a multiple-vehicle fire where two tow trucks from Lane Towing, and a car on a flat bed, were engulfed in flames on G Avenue in a gated-industrial complex in Hesperia. The cause of the fire may have been arson, according to San Bernardino

Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 County Sheriff’s officials. 12 David Pardo/Daily Press September contest photos

Mark Zaleski/The Press-Enterprise First Place, portrait, september: Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians World War II veteran Ernest Salgado Sr., 89, served in the United States Army. Salgado is taking part in an exhibit that will feature other Soboba Indians who served their country during war time.

Karen Quincy Loberg/Ventura County Star second place, photo essay, september: Salvador Paulino Marin, 50, of Newbury Park sheds a tear of joy in his last moments with debilitating cataracts. Marin is one of four uninsured people to get free eye surgery through Kaiser Permanente Community Surgery Days in Woodland Hills.

third place, portrait, september: Los Angeles Clippers Craig Smith, left, Chris Kaman and Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010

Jayne Oncea/ U S Presswire DeAndre Jordan during media day at the Clippers training camp in Playa Vista. 13 October contest photos

Mark Zaleski/The Press-Enterprise second place, news, october: Family and friends write messages on balloons in memory of Lucas Ransom during paddle-out memorial near the Oceans- ide Pier in Oceanside. UC Santa Barbara student Lucas Ransom was killed when a shark attacked him while body boarding with friends in Santa Barbara.

Christina House/freelance second place, portrait, october: Performer Selene Luna at her home in Los Angeles on Oct. 11. Luna used a website, Kickstarter.com, to fund her online soap opera, Selene’s Holly- wood Confidential, which took 30 days to meet her $5,000 goal. Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin first place, sports, october: San Jacinto’s Kristen Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 Hubbs takes a ball directly in the face while playing 14 Chaffey on Oct. 5 in Rancho Cucamonga. INTRODUCING THE AMAZING NIKON D3S. AMAZING THE INTRODUCING YOU. LETS D-SLR ONE BARYSHNIKOVWHEN IS YOUR SUBJECT, YOU TO WANT DARK. SHOOT UNTIL Mikhail Baryshnikov was photographed at dusk at 1/50 s at f/4.0, ISO 12,800. f/4.0, at Mikhail Baryshnikov wasphotographedatdusk1/50 s lenses, and it gives Mark a whole new set of creative tools. creative of set new awhole Mark gives it and lenses, NIKKOR outstanding and capabilities HD video legendary Add sharpness. razor and precision in ultimate the for system AF a51-Point with coupled 9FPS, to up of speed ready-for-anything A sensor. CMOS FX-format a12.1 has D3S megapixel, The believed. be to seen be must that 102,400 ISO at performance and 200-12,800 of range ISO low-noise astonishing an With Center. Arts Baryshnikov the at D3S Nikon new versatile the of capabilities low-light and quality image extraordinary the uses Seliger Mark photographer celebrated how See CAPTURED WITHTHENEWNIKOND3S. THE HDVIDEO“BARYSHNIKOV BYSELIGER,” GO TOWWW.NIKONUSA.COM/D3S TOSEE

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Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles 3607 W. Magnolia Blvd., Suite 5, Burbank, CA 91505 Web site: www.ppagla.org E-mail: [email protected] OFFICERS President: Bob Riha, Jr., [email protected] Vice President: Arturo Quezada, [email protected] Secretary: Carlos Delgado, [email protected] Treasurer: Edna Trunell-Simpson, [email protected] Chairman of the Board: John McCoy, [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bob Riha, Jr.; Art Quezada; Carlos Delgado; Edna Simpson; John Milek, [email protected]; Dan Watson; Scott Meadows; Carl Schumacher, cmschuma@ pacbell.net; Gerard Burkhart, [email protected]; Alan Zanger, [email protected]; Jim Ober; Joel Lugavere; and Alan Madden, [email protected]. CHAIRPERSONS Video/Multi-Media Committee Co-Chairs: David Fernandez ([email protected]) and Scott Meadows ([email protected]) Social Media Committee Co-Chairs: Jon Vidar ([email protected]) and Jim Ober ([email protected]) Sponsorships Committee Chair: Jim Ober Awards Dinner Committee Chair: Joel Lugavere ([email protected]) Contests Committee/JOM Chair: Joel Lugavere Memberships Committee Chair: Rick Meyer ([email protected]) Education Committee Chair: Gerard Burkhart Media Access Committee Co-Chairs: John McCoy and Scott Meadows e-JOM, Jr. Newsletter Editor: John McCoy, [email protected] Design: Denise Smaldino, [email protected] Webmaster Robert Douglas, [email protected] Copyright 2010 by the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles (PPAGLA) Ju st O ne M ore , J r . • decem b er 2010 16