Lathan’s story about Richard Troise showed us a man who derives joy from flying kites over the Boston Common, and his coverage of the Obama visit looked at more than simply the POTUS.

Matt’s pictures from a Roller Derby competition and a ROTC training showed his willingness to get in close with his subjects.

Special thanks to Meghan Kemp, Rachel Offerdahl and Hilary Wartinger for participating, and keep it up.

Here’s the top five leaderboard as of today:

1. Lathan Goumas
2. Matt Wright
3. Meghan Kemp
4. Rachel Offerdahl
5. Hilary Wartinger

For those of you who haven’t heard what is on the line, at the end of the semester the overall winner in points will win $1000, with $500 going to the runner up and $250 going to third place. The next deadline is Monday, so get your pictures ready.

This points-based weekly contest will conclude with a final portfolio submission at the end of the semester, which can help contestants earn points towards their final score.

The student who accumulates the most points at the end of the semester wins a prize that will be announced soon. Trust us… it will be good!

SUBMISSION

The weekly deadline for submissions is Monday by 12pm. No late submissions will be accepted.

Photos are to be submitted to the dropbox located on the BU Photo file-share to the corresponding folders.

FILE NAMES

File names must be formatted in the following manner:

(LastnameFirstname)(Deadline Date)(Category)(Sequence#)

Example File Names:

-       Five Picture Photo Story (S)

• ReuterDominick0924S1
• ReuterDominick0924S2
• ReuterDominick0924S3
• ReuterDominick0924S4
• ReuterDominick0924S5

-       Single News Photo (N)

• ReuterDominick0924N1

-       Single Feature Photo (F)

• ReuterDominick0924F1

Contestants can enter ONE, five picture photo story. Contestants can also submit up to five photos for single news and single feature story categories combined. Sports pictures should be divided between news and feature categories, as appropriate. No entry can exceed ten pictures total.

FILE SIZE

Each photo must be submitted as a jpg at a minimum of 3000x2000px.

An UNEDITED version of each image submitted must be made available on request.

CAPTIONS

Photos must contain an embedded caption containing a caption and copyright notice. Photos submitted without a caption will not be accepted.

Captions MUST include the following:

-       Date the photo was taken

-       Location of the photo

-       Name of the photographer, college and year of graduation

Example: September 20, 2010 – Boston, MA – Boston University photojournalism student Matt Wright edits photos in the photojournalism lab of the College of Communication, located at 640 Commonwealth Avenue. (Photo by Dominick Reuter, COM 2011)

JUDGING

Any student that has completed a photojournalism class may submit.

Entrants receive one point per picture submitted to the contest.

Ten points will be awarded to the winner of each category every week.

Five points will be awarded to the runner-up of each category every week.

BU Photojournalism faculty members will judge the entries on a rotating basis.

Weekly winners and images will be posted by the following Monday at noon.