2004 (#1) WPJA WEDDING PHOTO CONTEST JUDGES:

1. Jodie Steck - Assistant Director of Photography/News - The Dallas Morning News. Former Orange County Register Director of Photography. Steck was Assistant Chief of Bureau/Photos for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, and was Photo Editor/Northern California in the San Francisco AP office. She also has been the Director of Photography at The Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, a Photo Editor/Supervisor for the Los Angeles AP and a Photo Editor for The New York Times.

2. Stephanie Grace Lim - (San Jose Mercury News), has won acclaim from the Society of News Design, National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, National Headliners, & Nikon, as well as Michigan College Photographer of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Her work has been featured in the illustrious publications of Life, People, Billboard, Photographer’s Forum, and Print Magazine.

3. Alan Berner - Staff photographer at the Seattle Times, has degrees in philosophy and photojournalism from the University of Missouri. The NPPA has named him Region 11 Newspaper Photographer of the Year five times, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2001 and 2003. (R-11 is Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia, The Yukon and the former Soviet Union).
He is the recipient of the Cowles Cup, the Associated Press Sweepstakes Award for Oregon & Washington four times, 1987, 1991, 2001 and 2003.

4. Sean D. Elliot - Chief Photographer/Photo Assignment Editor - The Day (CT). Currently is the National Secretary for the National Press Photographers Association - NPPA. Past director of Region One for the NPPA. Sean was 1994 Rookie of the Year from the New England Press Association and was NEPA's 2000 Photographer of the Year.