2009_02_18_IPPA Student Best of Photography

2009_02_18_IPPA Student Best of Photography

ISBOP is a photography contest between all the Illinois students and interns within the photojournalism community. Each year the IPPA, Illinois Press Photographers Association, gets together at some exotic locale (last year was Champaign, IL this year is Madison, WI) to discuss photography, listen to speakers, judge the contest entries, and of course have a much needed get together party.

I just sent off my disk of images shortly before the already extended deadline to get your entries into the mail. This will only be the second ISBOP competition that I have entered but I feel that I learned a lot from my last years entries and I am pretty happy with what I will be showing this year.

I entered the maximum 20 entries including a photo story entry. This year I am also entering into the student portfolio of the year competition, why not.

After gathering what I thought were my best images and editing those down to just 20 entries I know I still forgot some and overlooked a diamond in the rough here or there that I will stumble upon while looking through my archives sometime in the future. The process of having a few friends share my screen using Mac's Leopard operating system helped out a lot as they went through all my images that I had up and could talk directly to me while reviewing the images. It was just like looking over images being only feet away instead of hundreds of miles. I hope that the images that I sent are a pretty good representation of my 2008 year in work, and I am excited to hopefully be able to make it up to the conference at Madison in late March.

Either way, I figured I would share the images that I sent off to the competition here on my blog and get any feedback you have to offer. I know there are a couple that I had a hard time leaving in there, but the images meant something to me and the way that I shoot.

Thanks for looking,
Brad Vest

I'll start out with the sports photos. Here's what I entered in the sports action category and the sports features category.

Sports Action—spa—A photograph that captures
the competitive spirit; peak action.











Sports Feature—spf—A photograph that increases understanding and appreciation for individual and team sports or celebrates the role athletics play in the lives of amateur and/or professional athletes and fans.