Please enjoy Jim Cornfield’s recent feature article for Rangefinder Magazine about his time at the 2009 Photography at the Summit, it’s a great synopsis of what to expect from the week and commentary on his experience as a student last fall.
James Balog is taking a leave of absence from the Photography at the Summit as his much-acclaimed Extreme Ice Survey project is extended for perhaps another three years. Photographing the world’s melting glaciers with 33 remote Nikon cameras (in all-weather housings devised by Balog), this combination of documenting real effects of global warming as well as showing the public what is happening. Balog, part of the U. S. delegation, showed a multimedia presentation at COP15, the U.N.’s conference on climate change in Copenhagen late last year. He is featured in an in-depth interview by Fred Ritchen in the latest issue of Aperture magazine.
Los Angeles-based AP photographer Mark Terrill, a regular instructor at the Sports Photography Workshop for the past ten years is a consistent prize winner for his pictures. Now, he has won the top prize in the APSE sports photography competition — the Thomas V. deLustro Award for the best portfolio.
Morgan Heim has launched Eco Leads, a story source for conservation photographers. It is a free monthly newsletter that gives photographers the scoop on fresh science news just begging to become a photography project. Morgan attended the Summit when a student at the University of Colorado and has been pursuing a freelance career after school in the area of environmental issues. You can visit the site at: The Nature Files
The pictures of Keith Ladzinski, Adventure workshop instructor, are part of as ESPN The Magazine story that is a finalist for top award by the Society of Publication Designers.
Jim Balog was a speaker and exhibitor of his Extreme Ice Survey project at the Winter Games Sustainability Summit presented the day before the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. He has been named the Eco-Ambassador by Samsung Electronics in support of his efforts to educate the global community how climate change in empacting the panet. These are just the latest of the acknowledgements of his project which he outlined to participants at the Summit three years ago. Today, those remote Nikon cameras have been recording the world’s shrinking glaciers and iceburgs more than a year, producing amazing pictures. National Geographic television and Nova have produced an hour special on the project.
Sports Illustrated strobed its first NCAA Final Four in 1964 in Kansas City ’s Municipal Auditorium and five years later, began using big strobes at Final Fours for all the years since. The early days required huge Ascor strobes with four 1000–watt/second condensers with a quick charger on each of the four light clusters. As the tournament moved to indoor football arenas in 1962, the requirments for the long throws took the magazine back to large clusters of lights in the four corners. But until last year, those arenas were configured to use half the dome for basketball. Last year at Detroit’s Ford Field, the entire football arena was used and the high lifts used on one side disappeared. And the costs went up. Way up. Particularly when SI provided two additional sets of lights to pool with others who wanted time on strobes.
In the meantime, there were other changes beginning with cameras such as the Nikon D3s which make high quality possible without the strobes. And at the same time, new arenas are lighting from the same places as the strobes were placed in the ceiling providing light coming from the same directions — and looking much like strobe lighting.
Thus this year at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, there will be no strobes. The 41-year run has ended.
SI’s director of photography, Steve Fine, said it would cost $25,000 just to get power to the locations and the total bill to strobe the arena would top $50,000. SI will strobe some early round and regional games where the lighting isn’t good or in some cases, where there are already strobes in place.
But it is not just the cost that is potentially ending an era — the camera technology has advanced to the place strobes aren’t needed for high quality pictures.
David Griffin in Amsterdam judging World Press Photo — Mary Ann Golon in Washington is now consulting picture editor of the AARP magazine — Keith Ladzinski rock climbing in, of all places, the rain forests of Puerto Rico
And then, Bill Eppridge went to his neighborhood Costco store with these results.
“Yesterday I was at my local Costco buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Kramer, the Wonder Dog and was in the checkout line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I’m retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter’s ass and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard.
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Costco won’t let me shop there anymore.”
Nancy Crase, who attended both the Sports and Summit Workshops, is the author of a light-painted picture in the March issue of Arizona Highways. Dave Black’s hands-on teaching of the light painting technique led Nancy to photograph the flower in the picture with that technique and Jeff Kida, the photo editor of the magazine, told of Dave’s influence in making the picture. But there is one thing that Dave probably didn’t teach Nancy — to use a new “light source” for her light painting. You see, for a light, she used her iPhone.
Two Sports Workshop alums both made the defining picture from the 2010 SuperBowl. Sports Illustrated’s Heinz Kluetmeier, who has instructed as many of the workshops over the years, and Getty Image’s Jed Jacobsohn, who attended the workshop in Los Angeles, were next to each other and made almost identical pictures. The Saint’s Tracy Porter who intercepted the fourth quarter Peyton Manning pass for the game-winning touchdown, is running into the end zone with two teammates celebrating — with Manning laying on the ground behind, watching the championship disappear. Jacobsohn’s picture made front pages across the country and Kluetmeier’s is featured on SI.com.