Four Spring 2010 Chipsters in the Washington, D.C., area shared their St. Patrick’s Day evening with CQS program Co-founder John C. Quinn and Program Director Karen Catone. Here, the Scholars offer a few wee insights about what the dinner and gathering meant to them.

Photos by Karen Catone

Ashley Marchand:
I knew there would be no better [...]

By Derek Sijder
LEARN HOW TO USE FILL FLASH

I hardly used flash for my photographs, but by the end of my internship I never left home without it. Natural light is the first thing a photographer should look for, but we often face unfavorable lighting conditions. I found my flash particularly helpful when shooting indoors and [...]

Photo by April Gregory
St. Cloud (Minn.) Times

© St. Cloud Times

He was a Summer 2008 Chips Quinn Scholar for the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. He discovered his passion for photojournalism while serving with the U.S. Army in Kosovo.

Vanessa Miranda is a senior at Trinity University in Washington, D.C. She was a Summer 2008 Chips Quinn Scholar at the Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette. Miranda has been editor, layout editor and a reporter for the Trinity Times, the student newspaper. In 2007, she was an editorial assistant for Military Living Publications, which publishes [...]