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In pictures: Press Photographer of the Year
Image source, Hannah McKay / ReutersImage caption, Hannah McKay’s picture of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London was one of the pictures that won the Photographer of the Year award Reuters photographer Hannah McKay has been named as The British Press Photographers’ Association Press Photographer of the Year for 2022. McKay’s work was selected from more than 2,000 entries by photographers working in the UK and abroad. Across the various categories members of the association were invited to vote for their favourite entries, with members of the board choosing the overall winning portfolio from…
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Press Association photographers pick their top shots of 2022
PA Media photographers choose their best photographs from the past year and reflect on the stories behind the images. Image source, Ben Birchall / PA Media Ben Birchall was the only news photographer present at Highgrove House, where the then Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) danced with one of the guests, Bridget Tibbs, during a tea dance hosted by The Prince’s Foundation to mark the Platinum Jubilee. “I consciously remember pulling back, leaving space to blend into guests and just observing without a camera to my eye. “I could sense someone would ask him to dance, so I moved into the empty floor space, switched to my 20mm…
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Maine Press Association recognizes journalism, photography, news business at annual awards ceremony
PenBayPilot writers and photographers Sarah Thompson, Chris Wolf, Diane O’Brien and Lynda Clancy earned first, next and third area awards at the annual Maine Press Association Improved Newspaper Contest at the MPA’s drop meeting held Saturday, Oct. 22 at Atlantic Oceanside Lodge & Function Middle in Bar Harbor. The Pilot’s companion newspapers of Maine-Ok Enterprises — Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper — also obtained awards for creating and images, as well as initial and next place in their respective divisions for digital excellence. PenBayPilot awards involved: Sarah Thompson, 1st place for Health Story (Connect with for Thomaston eatery for alleged threatening demeanor finishes up a far distinctive story) First place for Location…
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Dave Caulkin, Associated Press photographer, dies at 77
LONDON — Dave Caulkin, a retired Connected Press photographer who captured the iconic minute when ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean received the 1984 Olympic gold medal, has died. He was 77 and had cancer. Acknowledged for staying in the correct position at the appropriate time with the suitable lens, the London-dependent Caulkin included every little thing from the conflict in Northern Eire to the Rolling Stones and Britain’s royal household during a job that spanned 4 a long time. But just one of his most renowned pictures was that of Torvill and Dean, their lips inches aside as if poised for a kiss, as they skated to Ravel’s…
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Rosemary S. Mahoney Obituary – Press & Sun-Bulletin
Rosemary S. Mahoney Binghamton and Quaker Lake – Rosemary Shanley Mahoney, a beloved spouse, mom and grandmother, handed absent peacefully at her house at Quaker Lake surrounded by her loving family members, on May well 31, 2022. She was 81 yrs aged. She is pre-deceased by her father, James Shanley, her mother, Evelyn Shanley, her brother James Shanley, and her beloved granddaughter Charlotte Mahoney Beam. Rosemary was born in the Bronx, New York on February 15, 1941 and attended Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Superior School. She fell in enjoy with her higher faculty sweetheart, Paul Mahoney, with whom she attended faculty because the 1st quality. The couple married on June…
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White House Press Secretary Gets a New ‘Flak Jacket’: A Women’s Blazer
By longstanding, bipartisan tradition, many years of White House push secretaries have handed down a cheeky symbol of their job fielding rat-a-tat inquiries from feisty reporters: a flak jacket. The ritual dates to the 1970s, when Gerald Ford’s push secretary, Ron Nessen, gained a blue men’s brocade vest from reporters that showcased a bulletproof lining. He left it for his successor with a take note: “You’ll require this at some of your briefings.” In real Washington vogue, a gag reward turned into a honored ritual. But the garment, which in afterwards many years was a dim-hued men’s blazer, would often go missing, normally concerning administrations. So it was that Jen…
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