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Hey everyone, congrats to Lightstalker Chip Somodevilla for winning the White House News Photographers Association Political Photo of the Year.

peep it:

http://www.whnpa.org/contest/eyes2007/stills/politicalphoto/01/1.shtml

and you can see the rest of the winners on there too.

http://www.whnpa.org/contest/eyes2007/stills/
somo
hi fives,
david…

by david s. holloway at Tue Jan 30 01:09:36 UTC 2007 (ed. Mar 12 2008) Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

That’s a great photo. Congrats, Chip!

by Bill Putnam | 30 Jan 2007 02:01 | Washington, D.C., United States |

And congrats also to fellow Lightstalker Michael Robinson Chavez on being WHNPA photog of the year (and also first place in the Picture Story/News category)!

Oh, and by the way…considering modesty, one David Holloway (the guy that started this post) won first place in Sports Features/Reaction and third place in Picture Story/Sports). There may be other LS people who were winners whom I did not recognize. The community has some terrific shooters in it.

I meant to come back on Saturday or Sunday to see some of the judging but unfortunately got swept up in other weekend things. The judging apparently was open to the public, which was a great thing. Thanks to National Geographic for letting its facilities be used for this event. It allowed open and transparent judging by some excellent judges. Kudos to WHNPA for this process.

by Neal Jackson | 30 Jan 2007 03:01 | Washington, DC, United States |

Wow! Great picture Chip. Congrats to Michael and David as well.

by Michael Eckels | 30 Jan 2007 09:01 (ed. Jan 30 2007) | Moscow, Russia |

Thanks for the post and kind words, David. And many thanks to you all. Lightstalkers is an exceptional and excellent community and resource. Keep up the great work!
Chip

by Chip Somodevilla | 30 Jan 2007 17:01 | Washington DC, United States |

thanks all and congrats to all the winners in the contest! there was some great work this year, as always! mrc

by Michael Robinson Chavez | 30 Jan 2007 19:01 | The Farm, Maryland, United States |