Awards

ok, so now that i won first place at the QCNA awards and people have told me the subtext of my photo, i am slightly more proud of it.

So i guess ill go ahead and post a copy of it.

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And this is the editorial staff getting loud at the award ceremony.

Progress

Hey everyone,

Well i know it's been a little while since i last wrote, and unfortunately, because of a hectic lifestyle at the moment, this post is going to be short.

All i really want to say is that it looks like my application for Permanent Residency is finally being processed. I received a letter last week asking for more information and with a swift response and a last minute dash to the mail box to make the last post, i am resuming the waiting game. But, this time with a little light at the end of the tunnel.

I'll keep you all posted.

Oh and all you dirty minded 'friends' who are prone to posting such thoughts in my comments, please be aware that my mother is now tech-savvy, (heya ma) and may well travel to whatever part of the world you live in to kick your ass. (Marcy, (Marcel) this means you can stop asking for photos taken on girls-night-out)

Hope to have more news for you all soon,
Cheers,
Nat.

Short Listed

Guess who was nominated for the Best Feature Photo, 2007 by the Quebec Community Newspaper Association.

Scroll down to photography. Wuhooooooo.

I like awards.

And the winner is.... ohhhh it's like the newspaper Emmy awards.

2007 QCNA NEWSPAPER AWARD WINNERS

(Alphabetical Short List)

BEST OVERALL NEWSPAPER AWARDS

A. l Best Overall Newspaper

Chronicle West Island

Low Down To Hull & Back News

Spec

A.2 Best Front Page

Gleaner - Huntingdon backs out of Arena … Mar 14.07

Low Down To Hull & Back News – Crash … and Burn ... July 4.07

Nunatsiaq News - Sealift snafu strands building … Oct 12.07

A.3 Best Editorial Page

Chronicle West Island - ADQ comes up short … Jan 31.07

Low Down To Hull & Back News - To train, no sanity … Nov 7.07

Westmount Examiner - Send a Westmounter to Ottawa … Apr 12.07

A.4 Best Feature Page

Low Down To Hull & Back News - Dark skies don’t dampen … July 4.07

Nation - The balance of power … July 20.07

Nunatsiaq News - Where dreams become Ranger reality … July 20.07

A.5 Best Sports Page(s)

Eastern Door … World Indoor Lacrosse Championship ... May 18.07

Equity … Junior ‘B’s within range … Jan 31.07

Suburban West Island ... St. Laurent dominate North Shore … Oct 24.07

A.6 Best Special Section

Brome County News - Eastern Townships Adventures… Summer 2007

Canadian Jewish News - Weddings 2007 – Feb 15.07

Chronicle West Island - Welcoming new citizens … July11.07

A.7 Best Community Newspaper Promotion

Eastern Door - On the road to health …Apr 6 – Oct 12.07

Laval News - Relief Fund for Fire Victims of Greece … Sept 6.07

Your Local Journal - Shave to save 2007 … Oct – Nov 2007

A.8 Best Ad

Laval News - Relief Fund for fire victims in Greece …Sept 6.07

Nunatsiaq News - Don’t Drink & Drive … Dec 21.07

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph - Tailgate - St Pat’s vs Ste Anne … Sept 19.07

A.9 Best Website

Canadian Jewish News

Chronicle West Island

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

WRITERS’ AWARDS

B.1 Best News Story

Bonspiel, Steve – The Nation - Beleaguered Kashechewan … Mar2.07

Dupuis, Amanda – The Equity - Man shot after 10-hour … July 18.07

McCully, Sharon – The Outlet - Stolen lives … Aug 2007

B.2 Best Feature Story

George, Jane – Nunatsiaq News - Mystery of the serpentine … June 15.07

Rogers, Sarah – The Record - Good eats … Oct 10.07

Thompson, John – Nunatsiaq News - Owners, diners mourn … Feb2.07

B.3 Best Business Story

Alexander, Gordon – The Outlet - What you see is what you … Mar 2007

McLean, Wilbur – The Equity - Smurfit-Stone workers … July 25.07

Rogers, Sarah & Legault, Rita – The Record - Cross Border Shoppers … Oct 2.07

B.4 Best Investigative or In-Depth Reporting

Legault, Rita - The Record - Seeking justice … Sept 21.07

McCully, Sharon - The Outlet - Magog pioneers relegated … Nov 2007

Thompson, John - Nunatsiaq News - One small city’s big language … Nov2.07

B.5 Best Sports Story

Bonspiel, Steve – Nation – McGill camp revs up elite … June 8.07

Hickey, Mike – Record – Retiring Bobby Kay leaves … June 7.07

Lordon, Ian – Low Down to Hull & Back News – Obrecht mushes through … Apr 11.07

B.6 Best Arts and Entertainment Story

Joyce, Catherine – Low Down to Hull & Back News - When garbage turns … Mar 21-27.07

Standup, Jordan – Eastern Door - Jonas rocks packed … Mar 2.07

Watson, Hollie – Chronicle West Island - From Russia with love … Feb28.07

B.7 Best Column Writing

Foscolos, Toula – West End Chronicle - Commentary … Oct 17, Nov 21, Dec 5

Larsen, Wayne – Westmount Examiner - Commentary … Jan 25, Mar 15, Dec 13

Sundaram, Lakshmi – West Quebec Post – West Quebec Wisdom … Jan 12, Apr 27, Oct 5

B.8 Best Column / Feature (business)

Legault, Rita – The Record - Grapes and apples need … Jan 9.07

Lisbona, David – The Suburban West Island - This rise is loonie! … May23.07

Ryan, Fred – Pontiac Journal – What if your job got Wal-Marted? … Jan 17.07

B.9 Best Editorial (local affairs)

Foscolos, Toula – West End Chronicle – What’s everyone’s damn hurry?… Nov 14.07

Mantell, Nikki – Low Down to Hull & Back News – No train, no sanity … Nov 7.07

Ryan, Fred – West Quebec Post – Masson-Angers should be grand-fathered… June 15.07

B.10 Bob Phillips Award for the Best Editorial (general)

Deer, Kenneth – Eastern Door - Canada’s failed foreign … Oct 26.07

Ledbetter, Richard – Pontiac Journal - Reasonable accommodation … Feb 14.07

Nicholls, Will – The Nation - The silent crime … Dec 7.07

B.11 Best Headline Writing

Baxter, Sara – Your Local Journal

Boudjikanian, Raffy - Chronicle West Island

Fasciano, John – Courrier Laval Weekly News

B.12 Best French-language News Story

Laflamme, Parice – Gleaner/LaSource - Une cooperative naît à l’école … Dec 19.07

Pilon, Céline – Your Local Journal - Gerry Roufs ou la passion … July 12.07

Tessier, Lionel – Journal du Pontiac Journal - Victoire pour les métis … Feb 28.07

B.13 Best French-language Editorial / Column

del Burgo, Alberto – Nouvelles Parc Extension News - Achats chez nous … Nov 17.07

Laflamme, Patrice – Gleaner/La Source - Les dés pipes d’avance … Apr 11.07

Tessier, Lionel – Journal du Pontiac Journal - Action de Grâce? … Oct 10.07

B.14 Best Education Story

Blatchford, Andy – Chronicle West Island - Prechools denounce pre-K … May 2.07

Bonspiel, Steve – Nation - Northern teachers win … Aug 17.07

Thibeau, Michèle – Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph … DDO School Celebrates … Sept 26.07

B.15 Best Agricultural Story

Legault, Rita – The Record - People are tired of not … Apr 13.07

Rogers, Sarah – The Record - Getting to know you … Sept 17.07

Young, Jen – The Record - He steals from friends …June 7.07

B.16 Best Environmental Story

George, Jane – Nunatsiaq News - When the ground melts … Oct 12.07

Horak, Heather – Low Down To Hull & Back News - Dumpster diving with … Nov 21.07

Villeveuve, Nathalie – Courrier Laval Weekly News - Coliforms in tens of thousands …Oct 14.07

B.17 Best Municipal / Civic Affairs Story

Legault, Rita - The Record – Historic St. James Hall crumbles … May 3.07

McCully, Sharon - The Outlet – Small towns, big bills … Feb 2007

Thompson, John - Nunatsiaq News – Anger, boredom and battered buildings … Oct 12.07

B.18 Best Community Health Story

Dares, Rachel – Low Down To Hull & Back News - Cantley dump ‘a black … Oct 24.07

Dupuis, Amanda – The Equity - Battle of the Bulge … Sept 26.07

Legault, Rita – The Record - There’s no polite way … Nov 19.07

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

B.19 Best News Photo

Baxter, Sara - Your Local Journal – Nadine Leduc and Sebastièn Larivière … Nov 8.07

Brunet, Stephane - Chronicle West Island – Nelligan MNA Yolande James … Mar 28.07

Horn, Greg - Eastern Door – Home destroyed by blaze … Apr 27.07

B.20 Best Feature Photo

Anderson, David – The Record - The Water’s Fine … June 26.07

McCabe, Peter – Chronicle West Island - Getting a closer look … July 18.07

Spooner, Natalie – Low Down To Hull & Back News - Hamming it up? … Oct 3.07

B.21 Best Sports Photo

Beaton, Perry – The Record - Sherbrooke-Estrie midget … July 3.07

McCabe, Peter – Chronicle West Island - Action from u-16 girls … June 20.07

Ouellet, Jay – Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph - Cheer on the Rouge et Or … Oct 31.07

B.22 Best Photo Essay

Beaton, Perry – The Record - Purple’s tops … Oct 1.07

Cannon D & Anderson, M – Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph - New venue for CQSB … Oct 10.07

Windeyer, Chris – Nunatsiaq News - Naval gazing … Aug 24.07

BEST EDITORIAL CARTOON

B.23 Best Editorial Cartoon

Bonaparte, Anthony – The Suburban West Island – Permis de conduire … May 14.07

Ewen, Ruby – West Quebec Post - Bon Cop Bad Cop … Aug 31.07

Roach, Stan – Chronicle West Island - Speaking of reasonable accommodation … Dec 5.07

Paddy's Day in Ottawa Canada

The best possible way to start the day.... Drinking


Kinda looks like i superimposed Nick into the pic. But i swear my boyfriend is real. I did actually move to Canada. I swear, I'm not living in a hovel in Wexford. Really.
By the way, Rakhi will you ever stop posing in pics.



Come on Ireland. Gettin our drink on in the Heart and Crown pub in Ottawa ( Heather, watch where you're putting those hands).



I'd Like to say i looked this sober for the entire night, but if i did.... i would be lying. I showed these Canadians the Irish way to celebrate Paddys Day

A trip down memory lane New Years - 2007

Ok, so there's no sound, but i think that adds it the joy of interpretation.



Getting to grips with her new camera, Mary experiments on New Years 2007.




Check out the crotch shot at the end. Yeah, nice one Mary.

New Year 2008 (part 3)

13 years of friendship, countless nights of alcohol
and millions of photographs later and
this fecker still looks more sober than I.


Spooner: "so ill get the shot glasses, and u get me".
Steo: " Great plan, Spooner. lets do it".


Careful Linda (mother), this girl is looking for digs.
And watch out for the condom hat attached to her wrist.



Schmary: "Ha! Gotcha. Lets see you get out of this one".
Schmanto: " yeah Schmary, one too many Barr-carrr-di's, i think".
Schmary: "Shut-up Schmanto. Now smile or ill eat ya".

New Years 2008 (part 2)

Friends are there to provide support whenever and wherever it is required.


More support.. i really need a better bra.... M&S here i come.


Ahh Penny's lingerie just doesn't seems to do the job


Awhh aren't they cute... wait, and they're sober.. Now, now... down with that sort of thing

New Years 2008 Dublin

Legs Eleven... Ok Miss Aherne, time to look sober. Errr, lets work on this for next year



Right Eddie, Steven.. look like ur having fun.... have fun i tell ye, or this corkscrew will be put to good use.


Yummm, herbal essence... bring out the stalker in you



Bring out the pearly whites and make a moment.



Sharing 2 bottles among 4 people, times were hard.




Steven and my Dad... It's guy love ( taken from an episode of scrubs)