JUST ONE MOREPress Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles 61st Annual | 2013 YEAR IN PICTURES NPS – Nikon Professional Services, congratulates all the PPAGLA award winners: Photographer of the Year – Terry Pierson College Photojournalist of the Year - Amy Gaskin Nikon® and D750™ are registered trademarks of Nikon Corporation. ©2014 Nikon Inc. 1 14-287Pages_v3.indd PPGLA Journal1 Ad Full Page_04ct.indd 1 10/7/1411/19/14 10:18 9:16 AM PM 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles JUST ONE MORE 61st Edition Images of 2013 by members of the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles Paul Buck Jim Ober Jim Ruebsamen Diandra Jay Publisher: Vice President Treasurer Secretary Alternate Secretary Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles Book Chairman: Peter Levshin Designer: Khai Le Gerard Burkhart Bob Bessolo Jason Wittman Louis Gabriele Editor: Education Chair Video Committee Still Photo Chair Special Projects Khai Le Associate Editor: Jim Ober Copyright © 2014 All rights reserved. No part of Jim Caccavo Ringo Chiu Kirk McKoy Nancy Newman this book may be reproduced Alternate Board or used in any form or by any Member means, electronic or mechanical, including photo copying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. Number 61 in a series of “Just One More” annuals published Bob Riha Jr. by the Press Photographers Chairman of the Board Association of Greater Los Special Thanks To Angeles. Press Photographers Assocation of Greater Los Angeles 501 W. Glenoaks, #655 Glendale, CA 91202 Rick Meyer Scott Meadows Khai Le Membership Chair Co-Chair Video Contest Special Projects / Social Media 2 Pages_v3.indd 2 11/19/14 9:16 PM Table of Contents News 4 Video Spot News 10 Video General News 12 Fire 14 Video Fire 18 President’s Message Video Live Coverage 20 Serving as the President of the Press Photographers Association of Great Music & Performing Arts 22 Los Angeles has been a challenging and rewarding experience. For our organization to move forward, it has taken a lot of hard work and dedication Feature 28 on the part of your Board of Directors. Video Feature 34 PPAGLA continues to hold educational seminars for professionals as well as Animal 36 provide college level training for our student members. Students are the next generation of photojournalists in both still and video. It is gratifying to see Video Animal 40 how motivated our student membership can be. Portrait 42 As photojournalists, we strive to create images that can be unique and at Andy Castle Award 48 times powerful. Still photos and video tell a story in a way that words alone cannot communicate. We explore the full depth of the human experience Sports 52 with our work. This book allows us to share those images once again. Video Sports 56 PPAGLA has a long and storied past, filled with tradition. We celebrate what we do as visual journalists, and look forward to fostering the photographers Sports Feature 58 of tomorrow while protecting the rights we have today. UCLA 64 During my years on the Board of Directors, I have come to care deeply about Photo Essay 68 our legacy, and worked to push the organization foward while at the same time honoring our past. Video In-Depth 74 Video Multi-Camera 76 I am very impressed by the people who have served on the Board and volunteered their time and devotion to the organization. Our team brought Student Photojournalist of the Year 78 strong ideas together. Photographer of the Year 82 It has been a pleasure to serve as your President. Videographer of the Year 89 Thank you PPAGLA! LA Area TV Station of the Year 90 David Fernandez Lifetime Achievement 92 President 2013 Membership Directory 94 3 Pages_v3.indd 3 11/19/14 9:16 PM News Sponsored by Old Farts Society Endowment Fund 4 Pages_v3.indd 4 11/19/14 9:16 PM First Place | Will Lester | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin A San Bernardino County Sheriff SWAT team returns to the command post at Bear Mountain in Big Bear after searching for Christopher Jordan Dorner on Friday, February 8, 2013. Search conditions have been hampered as a heavy winter storm has hit the area. 5 Pages_v3.indd 5 11/19/14 9:16 PM Second Place | Stan Lim | The Press-Enterprise The casket carrying the body of San Bernardino County Sheriff Det. Jeremiah MacKay is taken out of a hearse during his funeral service on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Glen Helen. MacKay was shot and killed during a gun battle with former LAPD fugitive Christopher Dorner outside a cabin in Seven Oaks. Third Place |Dan Watson | The Signal Newspaper Firefighters spray water on the wreckage of a Porsche sports car that crashed into a light pole killing actor Paul Walker on Hercules Street near Kelly Johnson Parkway in Valencia on Saturday afternoon. 6 Pages_v3.indd 6 11/19/14 9:16 PM Honorable Mention |Will Lester | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Walmart protester Karl Hilgert, dressed as Santa Claus, is lead away after being arrested for failure to disperse after sitting down with 9 other protesters in the middle of the intersection at 5th and Mountain Avenues in Ontario on Friday morning, November 29, 2013. Over 100 protesters came to the Walmart on Mountain Avenue to protest against Walmart’s wages and benefits. Honorable Mention |Ringo Chiu | Los Angeles Business Journal / Freelance Protestors with signs shout slogans in front of Los Angeles City Hall during a peaceful protest against George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Seventeen-year-old Martin was shot and killed in February 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. 7 Pages_v3.indd 7 11/19/14 9:16 PM Will Lester | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Riverside police department officers salute as they line the walk as the casket of slain officer Michael Crain is brought in for services at Riverside National Cemetery Wednesday. Funeral services for Riverside police officer Michael Crain February 13, 2013 at Riverside National Cemetery. Crain was killed February 7, Christopher Dorner is suspected in the shooting death of the officer. Reed Saxon | Associated Press Lighted pylons at the Century Boulevard entrance to Los Angeles International Airport, which normally flash in a multicolored sequence, shine a steady blue Saturday evening, Nov. 2, 2013, in honor of Gerardo Hernandez, the Transportation Security Administration officer slain at an LAX terminal Friday. He is the first TSA officer to die in the line of duty in the history of the 12-year-old agency, created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Margaret Molloy | Freelance Santa Monica Fire Department respond to a crash at Santa Monica Airport in the 3000 block of Donald Douglas Loop on Sunday, September 29. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said a twin-engine Cessna Citation went off the right side of the runway after landing at around 6:22 p.m. Three people onboard died. 8 Pages_v3.indd 8 11/19/14 9:16 PM Thomas R Cordova | Daily Breeze/ Press Telegram Loya Cotinola cries for her younger brother, Chris Cotinola Jr, during his funeral in Chino on March 21, 2013. Chris Cotinola Jr., the 20-year-old Pomona man who was shot and killed outside his Gordon St apartment March 10. His was the third fatal shooting in the city since March 7. 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All copyright and trademark rights reserved. 13 Pages_v3.indd 13 11/19/14 9:16 PM Fire Sponsored by United Firefi ghters of Los Angeles City IAFF Local 112 AFL-CIO First Place | Mike Meadows | Freelance An LAFD airborne paramedic very carefully craddles a one month old infant as he carries it to a waiting helicopter aft er the infant, born with a heart defect, experienced diffi culty breathing. Th e young boy was taken to Childrens Hospital along with his mother. 14 Pages_v3.indd 14 11/19/14 9:16 PM Second Place |Will Lester | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin An inmate hand crew roundup loose cattle in a burning field off Bryant Street in Yucaipa during the Mill Fire Friday June 28, 2013. Third Place |Michael Coons | The Acorn Newspaper Firefighter Nick Dennison of the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority sprays down a hillside with water in Calabasas, CA while fighting the Old fire on Aug. 18, 2013. 15 Pages_v3.indd 15 11/19/14 9:16 PM Karen Quincy Loberg |Ventura County Star Smoke burns Michael George’s eyes as he comes to the aid of his sister Monqiue Orr watering down her yard while heavy winds push the Springs Fire to her property in Newbury Park on Thursday morning.