Congratulations to Afton Almaraz, Brett Benham, Janine Stengel, and Daryl Peveto for their winning entries in our portraits shoot out! Follow the "Continue..." link below to see a gallery of the winners and all 230 entries! Thanks to everyone who submitted for providing such a variety for our judge to look through!

Sorry for the delay the last two weeks. We're still figuring out some things, and this week we had the added twist of doing the whole edit from entirely different parts of the world. We used Skype to conference call everyone together, but Aaron's audio didn't get recorded, so that's why there's a few empty spots in the audio track.

Well folks, it's another week gone by and another Week in Pictures edit is ready to be viewed. We apologize again for the delays, but, life happens. Especially in week 7. A great set of images this time around, and a really good edit. Hope you enjoy, and please keep submitting!

Times Community News-Orange County, a division of the Los Angeles Times, is comprised of one daily, and two weekly newspapers covering coastal Orange County. All three papers provide the opportunity to cover breaking news, general news, features, sports, and portraiture photography for publish in print and online. Interns are treated like staff photographers and are expected to be reliable and punctual. Interns have to provide their own still equipment, but larger Canon lenses are available for loan when needed. Photographers cover the cities of Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and a small portion of Irvine. Websites for papers: www.dailypilot.com, www.coastlinepilot.com, www.hbindependent.com

Internships are customized to meet the needs of the intern. Hours and length of internship are flexible, again to meet the needs of the student and his/her program. Internship positions available are still photojournalism, video photojournalism, or multimedia, consisting of stills, video, and audio presentations.

Portfolio and resumes can be mailed or emailed. Hard copy, CD, and website based portfolios are acceptable.

Any submissions and questions:

Mark Dustin
Photo Editor/Supervisor
Times Community News-Orange County
1375 Sunflower Ave.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 966-4697

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay this week. I was in Vegas Monday night and Tuesday for the annual NAB show.

We had a drastic drop in entries from last week - down to just 22 from more than triple that last week! We hope weeks 6 & 7 don't keep you all so busy that you forget to submit, so I've added a reminder appointment on the Brooks NPPA Google Calendar every Sunday.

Until then, as always, we hope you'll comment with feedback and your own critiques of the work presented here. Keep up the good work, and we'll have next week's up on time. Promise!

The Ventura Harbor Photo Contest, sponsored by the Ventura Harbor Community Council, Ventura Port District, and Ventura Harbor Village, is running its first annual competition. This contest is open only to Brooks students. Photos must be taken at the Ventura Harbor and can be of any subject matter: people, wildlife, stores, ocean/islands, boats, etc. Brooks will print and matte the top 30 photographs, which will be judged by the public on March 26th. First Prize will be $500, Second-$350, Third-$200, Honorable Mention-$100, and 10 passes on Island Packers for runner ups.

The photographs will also be shown and sold at a gallery in the Harbor, and the sponsors retain promotional rights to the winning photos for one year.

Criteria for photographs:

Images must be taken in the Ventura Harbor. The contest is only open to Brooks students.

Deadline for submissions: April 18th

Submisisons should be turned in to Jesse Groves at the Ventura campus. Questions? Email Jesse at jesse.groves@brooks.edu or call (805) 653-8325

Well, perhaps it was better off we failed the first time around. This week there were some terrific entries that sparked a lot of discussion among the officers. There were a lot of great portraits, so we hope to see those and more tonight at the Portrait Shoot-Off!

The officers would love to hear any feedback you have for us about the video or about our selections for this week's WIP. We will, however, require that you use you name when commenting; either in the comment itself, as your username for viddler, or in the comment form below (click on "comments"). We're accountable for what we say, so you should be too. Any comments without names - nice or otherwise - will be deleted.

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Brooks Institute will host filmmaker Chad Heeter and producer Adam Raney, who directed, edited, and produced Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 2:00pm in the "New York Bar" set on the Brooks Ventura campus located at 5301 N. Ventura Ave. Heeter and Raney will be discussing this project and much more. Brooks Institute's Visual Journalism faculty member, Brent Huffman, was the cinematographer for this documentary.

The movie has already gained much excitement and was featured on "Good Morning America" in February and has been screened for presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. The film is also scheduled to be featured on "Oprah" and "60 Minutes" later this year.

Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 2:00pm
Place: New York Bar set at Brooks' Ventura campus
5301 N. Ventura Ave, Ventura, CA

Image 08 is a nationwide photo contest run by the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and open to all professional and student photographers residing in the United States. Submit one or more of your favorite images that were created on or after January 1, 2007. The deadline for entry submissions is May 14, 2008. For more information see their website: http://www.asmpny.org/image08/

Entry fees are $15 per image for students who are ASMP members and $25 per image for non-member students. An unlimited number of images can be entered.