Sports Journalism and Photojournalism Seminar
held in conjunction with Championship Saturday

Tuesday November 25, 2008
5:00 to 6:00 P.M.
-- Welcome photo contest entrants, judges, observers
6:00 to 7:00 P.M.
-- Refreshments
7:00 to 9:00 P.M.
-- Public invited, program begins

Denver Newspaper Agency Building
Main floor theatre
101 West Colfax

Including student photographer portfolio reviews, refreshments, career journalists and photojournalist speakers and a HS sports photo contest with prize of a $1,300 Nikon camera for student and one for the school

Portfolio Review Opportunity

Both high school and college students are invited for individual portfolio reviews by members of the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and staff members of the Post and Rocky beginning at 5 pm in the lobby area of the Denver Newspaper Agency building. Pizza and soft drinks will be served at 6 and the evening program begins in the adjoining auditorium at 7.

Program Lineup

Sam Adams, sports columnist, Rocky Mountain News
Tim Rasmussen, asst. managing editor for photographs, Denver Post
Vic Lombardi, sports anchor, CBS4 News
Helen Richardson, photographer, Denver Post (showing her pictures from the Beijing Olympics)
Wes Pope, multimedia producer (recently of the Chicago Tribune), Rocky Mountain News
John Moore, staff photographer Getty Images -- and winner of first prize in the most recent World Press Photo and U. S. Magazine Photographer of the Year.
Rich Clarkson

Event Details

The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, as part of their organizing of Championship Saturday, the Class 4A and 5A High School football championships, will again sponsor with the help of Nikon a seminar in sports journalism and photojournalism in conjunction with the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.

Originally produced for the previous three years for Colorado high school journalists and photojournalists, college and other school students are also invited this year. Members of the ASMP and The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News photography departments will critique student work from 5 p.m.The evening program, featuring top sports journalists and photojournalists, begins at 7 p.m. with an informal dinner hour at 6 p.m. Soft drinks and pizzas will be provided by Nikon in support of student photojournalists.

In addition to the program, part of the week's activities built around the high school football championships, there will be a contest for the best high school student-produced picture from the current year. The winning student will receive the latest model professional Nikon digital reflex camera, the D90, which has capability of both high quality still photographs along with high quality video. The camera was featured in Josh Quinter's full page story in the Sept. 29 issue of TIME magazine and it has been acclaimed as the first of a new generation of exceptional image-producing equipment.

Donated by Nikon, not only will the winning student be presented with the camera set (camera and zoom lens) but the school he or she attends will also receive a like camera set (The retail value of the camera and lens is $1,299.95).

Championship Saturday, is presented by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, with legacy sponsors, King Soopers/City Market, Gatorade, Denver Newspaper Agency, Wells Fargo, Western Dairy Association and INVESCO Field at Mile High.

Contest Details

Sports photographs to be eligible should be taken during the current calendar year—from Jan. 1, 2008, until the deadline for submission on Nov. 21 and can be either sent as DVDs or prints to the seminar organizer's office (Rich Clarkson and Associates LLC, 1099 18th St., Suite 2840, Denver, CO 80202) or submitted electronically to highschoolcontest@ncaaphotos.com.

Each entrant is limited to no more than 10 images and those that are e-mailed should be no larger than ten inches at 200 DPI.