Recent content by micaelb

Some of you know I've been involved in the NPPA for a while. For years I've wanted to make the winners of our Best of Photojournalist contest feel more honored and in a couple weeks we kick off what we hope is the first annual Best Of Photojournalism Awards Show & Education Festival in West...

Has anyone tried this out? I have an EX3 and I have a couple EF lenses for a Canon DSLR and I could certainly use the big long lens effect I think it would produce. Does anyone have experience using them? I don't want to buy an adapter and find out it produces garbage but if I can spend a few...

Many of us know Steve Sweitzer. He was the Chief at WISH for years, NPPA President in 1995 and was Chair of the TV Airborne Seminar and Advanced Storytelling Workshop. He's been a tireless worker for the NPPA and recently took on freelancing. Steve was on his bike Thursday and was struck by a...

If you entered or know someone who did here's where the results will be announced: http://blogs.nppa.org/TVBop/2012/03/15/tv-bop-judging-begins-today/ Also @NPPATVBOP on twitter. Good luck if you entered!

The deadline for entering the 2012 NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest is approaching fast. This year entries are uploaded. No discs to burn, no postage to pay, no entry fee, no membership required. So what do you have to lose by entering? It is sad the b-roll Awards aren't happening this...

The judging is going on now in Norman. Here are the results so far: http://bop.nppa.org/2011/tv_news_video/news_photography/winners/ Congratulations to the winners and good luck to those finalists in the categories still being judged!

I'm hoping this will be constructive. Earlier this month I was elected Vice President of the NPPA and part of what I want to do is make membership more attractive to people who work in TV. So, what would you like to see, what would help bring you into the organization, what would you like to...

livestream.com/nppa starting at 9:30 am Eastern.

I know 2-way radios are pretty much standard in news cars. I don't remember the last time I used mine and I'm not sure I want them installed as we move to smaller vehicles. We use cell phones for what we used the radios for and there just aren't very many places cell phones don't work. Is...

The polls are open in the NPPA elections! This isn't a single day election, you have all of the month of November to vote. There are two elections going on. One is for two seats on the Board of Directors, the other is for Regional Chairs and Associate Chairs in the even-numbered regions...

I'm glad he wasn't hit! http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/10/14/des-moines-officer-mistakenly-fires-weapon-at-kcci-cameraman/

Have you seen the poster the TSA wants at every entrance to airports? The NPPA has formally protested to Janet Napolitano about the poster. The story about the protest: http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2010/09/poster.html Has anyone seen one of these posted at an airport? Is it hard...

If you are interested in helping to run the NPPA now is a good time to get involved. Elections for regional officers and two At-Large members of the Board of Directors are in November. If you want to run you need to get on the ballot. Here's more information...

This is a story from nppa.org: http://nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2010/07/police.html It may never become law but at least we have someone on our side!

We're meeting in Charleston now and streaming both the board meeting and some of the workshop sessions. Look at www.livestream.com/nppa and www.livestream.com/nppa2 We are sort of bandwidth challenged in the board room but if you watch some please react here and on the Livestrean sites.