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Photographer of the Year gallery: Michael G. Seamans

A photo gallery of award-winning submissions to the National Press Photographers Association.

Posted February 21, 2020

Updated February 21, 2020

Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans recently won Photographer of the Year in the Monthly News Clips Contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association.

It’s a year-long contest in which a newspaper photographer submits up to 12 entries per month in any or all of the categories: general news, spot news, single feature, multiple feature, sports feature, sports action, and portrait.

Here is a slideshow of the award-winning photos included in the submission.

Shawn Quimby, future brother-in-law of the man who lost his life in a structure fire on North Road in Anson, Maine late Wednesday night, tries to find comfort with a friend's dog on North Road in Anson on Thursday, August 8, 2019.

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Shawn Quimby, future brother-in-law of the man who lost his life in a structure fire on North Road in Anson, Maine late Wednesday night, tries to find comfort with a friend's dog on North Road in Anson on Thursday, August 8, 2019.
Karl Michelin, of Rigolet, Labrador, kneels over a jar seal as he takes a break from dressing the animal he hunted in Lake Melville near Big Island at the mouth of the Labrador Sea on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Michelin supplements much of his food source with seal meat. The meat is used to feed him and his family along with Inuit elders in the community who can no longer hunt as easily as when they were younger. Seal is a staple in the Inuit diet, a food source that is being threatened by effects of the Churchill Falls Dam that empties in to Lake Melville, one of North America's largest estuaries.
Sally Kwan and Duane Hanson pose for a portrait at their summer kitchen outside their cabin on Whipple Pond in T5 R7 of the unorganized territories in northern Maine on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The couple, who power their cabin from a wood stove and two solar panels, worry they'll be able to see the 100 foot-tall transmission line above the white pine trees that surround their property. The new England Clean Energy Connect project proposed would cut through the property these homesteaders survive from.
Andy Valley's Carter Holbrook (19) reacts after hitting in to an out against Brunswick in the 11U Cal Ripken semi-finals game at Purnell Field in Waterville on Wednesday, July 24, 2019.
Gardiner first baseman Blake Caron (15) falls backwards trying to catch a pop fly off the bat of Waterville's Tom Labbe (5) left center, in a 11U Cal Ripken state tournament game at Parnell Wrigley Field in Waterville on Saturday, July 6, 2019.
Brunswick's Elliot Tower (6) fouls the ball off his face in the 11U Cal Ripken semi-finals game at Little Wrigley Field at Purnell Field in Waterville on Wednesday, July 24, 2019.
Andy Valley third baseman Dylan Truman (9) peers out from the dugout before taking the field against Brunswick in the Cal Ripken 11U semi-finals game at Little Wrigley Field in Waterville on Wednesday, July 24, 2019.
Forest Hills Consolidated School's Parker Desjardins (14) looks up to the heavens with the game net strung around his neck after defeating Schenck High School in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Forest Hills Consolidated varsity basketball coach Tony Amero enters the locker room to celebrate the Class D state title with his team in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Forest Hills Consolidated School's Brandon Gilboe kisses the golden ball after defeating Schenck High School in the Maine Class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019. It was the school's third Gold Ball in four years.
Forest Hills Consolidated School's Jakob Rivas (10) gets hooked in the eye by Schenck High School's Travis Thompson (32) in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Forest Hills Consolidated School's Brandon Gilboe (5) draws the foul as he drives to the basket on Schenck High School's Isaac Adams (22), left, and Kaden Hannan (21) right, in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
The Forest Hills Consolidated School varsity basketball team prepares in the locker room before competing against Schenck High School in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
The Forest Hills Consolidated School varsity basketball team prepares back stage before competing against Schenck High School in the class D state championship game at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, March 2, 2019.
Skowhegan Area High School third baseman Mariah Whittemore (8) keeps her eyes on the line drive against Scarborough High School in the Class A state championship game at Brewer High School on Saturday, June 15, 2019. Scarborough defeated Skowhegan 11-1.
Umpires take a break in the shade as they wait for the second game of a double header to start at Colby College in Waterville on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
A tear rolls down the cheek of Shawn Quimby, as he recalls the fire that claimed the life of his brother-in-law, whom he shared the home with on North Road in Anson on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.
Scott MacLean takes a moment to reflect on retrieving his belongings from his home as his brother, Jacob MacLean, left, removes his mask on Thursday, September. 19, 2019. Their home was destroyed by the LEAP Inc. building explosion in Farmington four days earlier.
Franky Lettieri performs some high-flying aerial acrobatics on his dirt bike during the KSR Motorsports Night of Fire and Destruction tour at the Skowhegan State Fair on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.
Jennings Pinkham, a firefighter with the Farmington Fire Department, washes the debris and dust from Tower 3 at the department on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Tower 3 Captain Mike Bell was killed in an explosion five days prior.
Melissa Scott, right, hugs Kayleigh Fontaine, as Farmington firefighter Joseph Hastings, 24, passes by the explosion site on his way home from the hospital in Farmington on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.
Scott MacLean stands on the front steps of his family's trailer that was destroyed by the LEAP building explosion as residents were allowed back in to pick up personal items on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019.
A pedestrian cross Appleton Street at the Main Street intersection in the warmth of the reflected sunlight from the Care & Comfort Building windows in Waterville on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.
Christy Griglio, 7, takes a straight path to end of the corn maze during Maine Farm Days at Misty Meadows Farm in Clinton on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.
A young pig chaser gets a face full wood chips as he chases down a piglet in the pig scramble at the 201st annual Skowhegan State Fair on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019.
Ernie Wallace, of Friendship, makes his way to the base of the Benton Falls Dam for a day of alewife fishing on May 15, 2019.
Alewives run for Weber Pond as spring time takes hold in Vassalboro on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. The removal of dams along the Kennebec River has brought record numbers of the fish to parts as far inland as Waterville.
Tommy Keister hauls a load of alewives in a skif to the rocks for crating with the use of a guideline at the base of Benton Falls Dam in Benton on Thursday, May 16, 2019. The dam hauls alewives over the dam with the use of a fish elevator while lobstermen catch the not-so-lucky fish to be used as local bait for lobster fishing.