August 2007 – AAJAphoto.org

More Miami Photos

Some 2007 Miami convention photos by Lawrence Liang. Click on the sample above to go the gallery page.

Miami Images

Dear photo conventioneers,

I hope you enjoyed Miami as much as I did.

If you have photos you want to share on the AAJAphoto.org web site, please email to: baron@mediabaron.com

If you have photos you think AAJA national office could use for future use, please mail on CD to:
AAJA – Janice Lee
1182 Market Street, Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102

If you plan to come to Unity, please send me workshop ideas before Aug. 29. Here are some ideas we have submitted:

1. Multimedia for photographers. This is an all-day session.
2. Sports photography
3. Student critiques: put students on the hot seat as they show their work to top photo editors who are looking for talent.
4. PhotoShootOut. Photographers compete for top prizes such as digital cameras for a live photo contest. Photographers will have from Wednesday thru Friday to come up with images. Think of theme?
5. Freelance photography. Top photojournalism freelancers talk about their work from getting the assignments to shooting through the business aspects.
6. Student Newspaper Project. Photo editors to work on student newspaper project. College students to work on multimedia newspaper. Professional photographers to work as
mentor with college students during the project.
7. Election photography. Stan Honda moderator. Since this is election year. The democratic and republican conventions is in the following months. Top election photographers can talk about their travels. Show their work. Eric Draper and Christoper Morris
8. Overseas & “photo projects in your backyard – community journalism”
9. lighting and remote sessions
10. Ethics ethics in multimedia.
11. Photo outing for Chicago Pizza
12. Photo cruise on Lake Michigan

Paul Sakuma
AAJA photography
psakuma@aol.com

More Multimedia for photogs

Application forms are now available for the upcoming Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp to be held Nov. 2 – 3, 2007 in Southern California.

The Sports Shooter Academy Boot Camp will be an intensive two full days combining multimedia training and sports photography. If you want to take your work to “the next level” — Internet presentations combining stills, audio and video — this workshop is for you.

Info on the Boot Camp: http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1802

Application Forms:

http://www.sportsshooter.com/pix/ssacad/ssacad-boot-camp-application.zip

Goodbye Miami, Hello Chicago

Dear AAJA photographers, photo editors and photo students,

Another successful and fun national AAJA convention is over. Here are some photography highlights of the convention in Miami. Hopefully we will see you at Unity next year in Chicago.

Almost $5,000 was raised in the Silent Photo Auction.
National photo award winners were Therese Tran, of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Kuni Takahashi of the Chicago Tribune won top honors for the annual contest.
PhotoShootOut winners were Michelle Le, of SF State and Shaminder Dulai, of SJ State, who won over $1000 in photo prizes and the Dith Pran perpetual trophy.
Five photo students were grilled nearly two hours in a lively discussion with top photo editors from around Florida.
Photo parties at a Haitian restaurant, Cuban restaurant, Caribbean restaurant as well as a photo cruise around Miami.
All-day multimedia workshop with San Jose Mercury News Dai Sugano, New York Times Andrew DeVigal, and Washington Post Ben de la Cruz.
Michael Yamashita, of the National Geographic, showed his work on China.
Overseas photography with AFP Stan Honda, freelance Laura Pohl, National Geographic Michael Yamashita and Chicago Tribune Kuni Takahashi.
Student multimedia Voices project with student photographers Michelle Le, from SF State and Shaminder Dulai, from SJ State. Photo editors were freelancer Laura Pohl and Bernadette Tuazon, of AP.

You can find more info on AAJA photography: https://www.aajaphoto.org

If you have any ideas for Unity, please let us know. If you are planning to attend, please let us know too.
More info on Unity photography: http://www.unityphoto.org

Paul Sakuma
AAJA photography
psakuma@aol.com

Miami – Day Four

Michael on the Island Queen Cruise ready to explore Biscayne Bay. Not quite his usual exotic adventure.

Cheryl works to get the bunny ears on Michael.

Our fearless leader Paul on the cruise. No attempts at conch shell blowing this year.

The Miami skyline as most vessels were motoring a bit faster than us.

Kuni works his overseas photo skills, or at least photos on the sea.

Okay, our skipper said this home belongs to Gloria Estefan but we didn’t see her for the paparazzi moment.

At the Gala Banquet, as you can see everyone likes to hang with the photographers.

The beauty table at the silent auction.

Why is Eugene smiling? Because he won a prize and what happens where he’s going, stays where he’s going.

Miami – Day Three

Students were in the hot-seat with live photo critiques during the opening of the Friday photo session. Photographers were able to talk to photo editors during the convention about their images.

Michael, right, talks to photographers after giving his presentation on his project for National Geographic of world explorer Zheng He.

Therese, center, goes over some of her images in the photo room at the convention.

Kuni takes questions regarding photography overseas.

Therese takes in the sights of South Beach.

More South Beach explorers who braved the humidity.

Miami – Day Two

Andrew and Dai give their multimedia sessions Thursday at the AAJA convention. Video, slideshows, hybrid packages. Lots of great information.

You can find some of the great information they talked about on

The photographer’s dinner at Versailles Restaurant.

Some mojitos around the table.

Eugene, Marc and Stan talk photojournalism at Versailles Restaurant.

Miami – Day One

Cheryl and Eugene in the photo room during auction photo set-up.

Prints framed for the photo auciton.

AAJA members take a tour of the Knight Concert Hall in Miami before the opening reception.

Eugene shoots the concert hall

Taiko drummers open the AAJA convention.

The opening night crowd at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida.

Corky, Leah, James and Baron at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts for the AAJA opening night reception. I think Corky is begging for more appetizers to be sent our way.

After dinner at the Mambo Restaurant. Great cuban food and great mojitos at Bayside.