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V V PAGE 6, TI IRSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1973, WHITBY FREE PRESS KALMINS 'ON Newsbopaper Awards if you, by any chance, read newspapers regularly, you might have noticed stories and pictures about newspaper awards. Ail kinds of awards can be won tflese days by a hard-working newspaperman, writer, or photographer. The rnost important recognition you can receive in Canada is a National Newspaper Award. There are about twenty dif- ferenit categories, including photography, editorial writing, spot news coverage and staff reporting. In addition, the Canadian Press, a news gathering oirgan- ization across Canada, has instituted its own newspaper awards. For instance, if you.r picture has been transmitted by CP wire services, you're automatically eligible for the Picture of the Month Award. Further, the Professional Photographers of Canada Ine. selects the "best photogra- phers of the year" and awards them plaques and citations. Well, se much for the organizationis which hand out these "excellence" awards on assembly-Iine basis. Just the same, pleasant as it may be, lin "anti" ail the way when it cornes to newspaper awards. 1 think it's a farce, perpetrated by newspaper people themseives. Often enough, the less talented "win" the awards, thus creating a false sense of values. Many of the awards 1 have seen are not given for the craftsmanship but for some other re- maonts, unrelated to the man's creative ability. A point in case was the recent picture of the Month Award to Glenn Bagle, the Vancouver Sun photographer. Ibe picture, taken during oil-spill operation on the beaches of West Vancouver, showed a i 6-year-old volunteer, Pam Baxter, dressed in a peasant outfit, her bare legs and cloth- ing covered with oil. Cute shot. But, the winning photo ,q% W 7 'uw au mw , w w w w w ' Somiething for everyone... every day of the yecir! 'Viie u- are S- -s - o * e- llyAd e. se - g, * - E looked like hundreds 1 have seen ini the National Geograph- ie Magazine, except that the subject matter was local and pertaining to a news story. 1 thînk the CP decision, at least in this case, was wrong. Photographie awards, if one is still interested in main- taining them, should be given on the basis of the photo- grapher's ability to "see" the subject in an unusual way; not on the basis of subject matters alone. What I'm saying is simply this: the quality of the picture or story should be easily recognizable. . in my Une of work, I have received a number of newspaper awards, but " I feel a bit uneasy about theni. Realistically speak- I ing, they do not represent tUA'I~*UIN!Alex Kaînins' photogra- 'h.In fact, they might say something about the newspapers themselVeS 1 have worked for. And, 4 a the judges who inay have t7;i been "kind enough" to lyoi UIvr JJ~/tW bestow nme with such ho- nours, most likely know very little about the actual work that goes fite producing a prize-winning photograph. Mie end result, then, is distorted. 1 wish somebody would have guts to speak out on this subject and tell te truth. Or would it hurt the newspaper business? FRIENDLY FLEA MARKET OsImwa 725-9783 We strtp and refinisli pianos. Funtr e-uhit-fdn4 Kodak I..FSYVANlA ICANINIEX GRCJEN olivetti riEMAING7ON LPALD#'iVG argu!s lise (L (7olMlflP# 356 DEAN AVE. MU ) Wooo OSH-AWA# ONTARIO. TELEPHONE: 723-3961 Westlnghouse FALLINGBROOK FARMS HORSES BOARDED REASO NAB LE RATES' DRY AI R CONDITIONED' BARN P HON E 668m-9039,. Special Rates for ch«ildrens ponies ATTENTION LADIES "Th e M arket"' Ladies" Wear GOING OUI 0F BUSI N-ESS Ail Stock Must Go!a SALE NOW ON WARM Ladies' Dresses: Sizes 8-e22 1/2 Reg. to 89.95 from 16 " "The Ladies' Wear 24 King St. Eist s Downtown Oshawa i I à