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10th Annual IBEW Photo Contest
The Winners!

December 2005 IBEW Journal

Ron Grant, Los Angeles Local 18, is the winner of the 2005 IBEW Photo Contest. His first place shot portrays IBEW electrical repair shop employees at work in what he calls “the delicate process” of re-installing Castaic Hydroelectric Power Project’s generator rotor.

This year’s judges picked Grant’s photo as the entry that best captured the powerful contrast between the intricate work of IBEW members and the massive and complex structures they maintain.

Shot with a Nikon Coolpix 8800 clamped to a crane catwalk handrail, Grant’s photo “gives us the opportunity to see something that few people in the world will ever see,” says one of the contest’s judges, International Representative Mike Nugent.

Tim Prendergast, web coordinator/designer, IBEW Journal and Media Relations Department and Mary Watters, creative director, Fingerhut, Powers, Smith and Associates (providing public relations to the IBEW) joined Nugent in judging this year’s entries.

Michael D. McCarty, a member of Vacaville, California, Local 1245, won second place for his shot of linemen replacing conductors, on a brilliant northern California day.

Third-place winner Tracy West, Columbus, Ohio, Local 1466, caught linemen who had traveled from Michigan and Indiana to restore power after an ice storm hit Ohio on Christmas, 2004.

Prendergast says, “Many visually stunning and creative photos were entered in this year’s contest. All entrants deserve recognition for their work.”

The IBEW thanks all who submitted their work to the contest and salutes all winners. After 10 years, the contest will take a break in 2006. We look forward to resuming in 2007. Watch for details in future issues of the IBEW Journal.