Congrats to Jim Beckel and Steve Gooch
Every month the Associated Press has a photo contest. All photos from Oklahoma members that are moved on the AP wire service are eligible to be the “Photo of the Month” for Oklahoma. For those of you not familiar with the news business, the AP is how we are able to get pictures and stories for the paper and NewsOK.com from national and international stories that we cannot cover ourselves. The Oklahoman is one of the members.
I am happy to report that in the contest for December, Jim Beckel finished first and Steve Gooch won third. Beckel won for one of the photos he shot of children with Santa Claus. He wrote about the experience of taking those pictures in a previous entry.
Here’s the winning photos:
Danny Nichols breaks into tears at the thought of sitting on Santa’s lap during a visit to Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City, Dec. 12, 2008. BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
Trey Bowman, 7, of Houston, plays in an obstacle course in the Mobile Science Museum in Oklahoma City, December 30, 2008. Science Matters, a mobile museum with hands-on exhibits and activities for children, will debut Tuesday at Science Museum Oklahoma. The museum will travel to schools in rural Oklahoma, providing discovery learning opportunities in areas of the state where museums don’t exist. BY STEVE GOOCH, THE OKLAHOMAN
I will try to put up the pictures from our winning entries in future contests. If an Oklahoman photographer does not win, we will quietly pretend the contest doesn’t exist.
-Nate Billings
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