Winning Streaks
More details and pictures to come, but:
I won 1st place in the Kona Classic video competition!!
There was some stiff competition this year: 7 videographers competing against each other, instead of split into “open” and “locals-only.” Dave Husted, my mentor and camera-housing-loaner, took 2nd place after 3 years of winning 1st place in the open category. Jeff Leicher, the owner of Jack’s Diving Locker, walked away with an honorable mention instead of his usual locals-only 1st place – I suspect he sort of phoned it in this year, not wanting to compete against his customers. But I’m in some pretty amazing company; I still have a lot to learn from those guys!
I’ll make a DVD with a full-res version of my three-minute video, and hopefully some of the other winners as well. And of course, it’ll include a slideshow from Jeff – who took an honorable mention in macro, 3rd place in wide angle, and 1st place in the new photojournalism category! He’ll be published in Sport Diver later this year.
For those of you who just can’t wait, a web-sized version of my video is here:
holy shit! you rock!!!! i haven’t even gone to look at them (jeremy is staring over my shoulder and wants to see the winning pics too)… we’re gonna look now…
Comment by Jen Yu — 5/22/2006 @ 7:07 pm
That’s AWSOME!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations! I’m off to look at pics now, will watch the web version tonight on my much faster home computer!
Comment by Becca — 5/23/2006 @ 6:02 am
Congratulations, Anna and Jeff! I’ll see you underwater again sometime soon, hopefully. :)
Comment by Eric Cheng — 5/24/2006 @ 3:28 am
AAAAAAAAAH! Congratulations!!! You are so COOL! (And what issue of Sport Diver was Jeff published in LAST year? Or was it a different magazine? I still want to get my hands on a copy…)
:)
Comment by Mir — 5/25/2006 @ 8:33 pm