2022 contest winners

Journalism awards for 2022 were finally announced recently and I’m happy to say I did okay!

The California News Publishers Association awarded me with a second place in the artistic photo category for my image of scouts carrying the giant American flag to kick off the Fresno Veterans Day Parade last November. Here’s a link to the story.

I also captured a couple of wins in the annual George Gruner journalism awards. I got a first place sports photo of Jose Ramirez landing a punch against opponent Jose Pedraza back in March last year. And an honorable mention was handed out for another Veterans Day image of a disabled veteran saluting during the National Anthem.

I’d like to think that I had at least a little to do with helping out my amazing wife in her work which also did very well in the journalism contests.

Carmen Kohlruss won a first place for land-use reporting for her coverage of the struggles of the residents of the El Portal Trailer Park who were forced to move out with very little notice. I shot the photos that went with that story.

She also won Gruners for both that reporting and coverage of the Oak Fire, which I also made pictures for. See a list of her list of accomplishments and links to all the stories on her Facebook page.