Capture Kern wins EPpy award

Got some good news today: The Bakersfield Californian's Capture Kern County project earned an EPpy award for excellence in journalism.

Capture Kern was among four finalists in the ungainly category of "Best Crowd Sourcing or Citizen Journalism with under 250,000 unique monthly visitors." Other finalists in that category were Fort Wayne Newspapers, Deseret News and the City University of New York School of Journalism's partnership with The New York Times. Here's a complete list of winners in the competition, which is sponsored by Editor & Publisher magazine (hence the EPpy award). 

Capture Kern was recognized for its wide reach and celebration of all things Kern County. In short, the project has, to date, enticed more than 1,200 photographers to submit more than 25,000 photos representing life in our county, and then allowing thousands of people to vote and comment on those photos, with the best and most popular being published in a 128-page full-color book. 

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Terrific 'Capture Kern' book powered by the people

Jonathan Walker photo showing off some of Kern's diverse landscape ended up on the cover of "Capture Kern County." "Capture Kern County" the book was officially released Thursday night and it's as good a portrait our region that's ever been published.

Why?

Because it was shaped through 21,993 submissions from 1,084 amateur and professional photographers sharing their images on CaptureKernCounty.com. The best of those images made the final cut for the book, filling 128 pages with often breath-taking photos on a wide variety of subjects. It's a document as diverse as the county in which we live.

The project, sponsored by The Bakersfield Californian and Tejon Ranch, launched in May and gave amateur and professional photographers a chance to share their visions of Kern in more

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