Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Spirit Lake - Dickinson County News Entry Title: BRULÉ WOWS CROWD AT 'LIVE AT THE LAKE’ Entry Credit: Matt Heinrichs Judge Comment: The beauty of the event itself helps make this entry a winner. That beauty is captured expertly and not overdone with too many photos.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Spirit Lake - Dickinson County News Entry Title: Making a splash at the 44th University of Okoboji Winter Games Entry Credit: Matt Heinrichs Judge Comment: Some truly outstanding "frozen moment" photos with a maybe few too many images that duplicate the same emotions or don't have quite the same level of emotional appeal.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Pocahontas - Pocahontas Record-Democrat Entry Title: Challenge to Change Entry Credit: Erin Sommers Judge Comment: Outstanding documentary photojournalism for a subject that, unlike others in this category, isn't an automatic natural for great photos. The text narration slides were necessary, I suspect, but making it a totally linear narrative of video without giving readers a chance to control how long they saw each slide bumped this down from otherwise would have been first place because of the inherent difficulty of the assignment.
