CPOY UPDATES!

above thumb courtesy of aaron rosenblatt…

josh bickel demonstrates the difference between a cpoy loser and a winner…
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It’s that time of the year again. They’re judging the College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) contest again at the University of Missouri in Columbia. I plan on trying to catch as much of the judging as possible, and will use this post to update what is going on in Tucker Forum!

Monday:
1:00 pm – finished sports action category
3:00 pm – just finished first round of sports feature – going into second cuts.
4:15 pm – just finished sports feature category.
4:30 pm – just began spot news judging
5:45 pm – in final round of spot news
6:10 pm – break / getting ready to go into pictorial
6:40 pm – 300 pictorial down, 1000 to go! (still in first round)
8:40 pm – beginning second round of pictorial – first cuts (29 left)

Tuesday:
11:00 am – still in first round of features – 400 down, 1000 to go, i think
2:24 pm – going through final placement of feature selects
3:55 pm – judges finally eating lunch / getting ready to go into second half of int’l stories
9:00 pm – finished with general news (sorry for the lack of updates, i’ve been pre-occupied!!)

Wednesday:
10:00 am – working through domestic picture story category
3:15 pm – making final decisions on medals for dom. pic story… lots of discussion!
6:20 pm – going through all outs of doc. pic story to make sure judges didn’t miss anything…
6:21 pm – i miss my photoj. girls in tucker!!!!!! ;(

Thursday:

8:30 pm – finished final medals for individual audio slideshow
9:05 pm – beginning sports portfolio

Friday:
i believe that today they’ll be judging portfolio in the morning, and video this afternoon. i have to go to another exotic animal assn. in st. louis all day, but hopefully i’ll have updates on saturday afternoon (portrait and illustration)… ;)