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| Bill Strothman |
Photographer Bill Strothman, who died Tuesday in a fiery helicopter crash, is a 1970 graduate of Shoreline High School. After graduation, he attended the University of Washington, graduating in 1974 with a B.A. in Economics.
His LinkedIn page describes him:
"Bill Strothman is an award winning television photojournalist, producer and editor and producer with a national reputation for producing creative, quality work independently and under extreme deadlines.
"Bill started Glass Mountain Video Productions in 2008 to provide high quality high definition broadcast quality video production to clients in the Seattle area."
He worked for KOMO as a photographer for 29 years, winning many honors and awards:
- Thirteen regional Emmy Awards for excellence in television production
- International Monitor Award for Best Camera in News and Documentaries presented at the Lincoln Center in New York, 1986
- National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Regional Television Photographer of the Year, 1990
- NPPA national awards for news and sports videography
- Multiple regional awards from the NPPA and Society of Professional Journalism
- “Best of the West” award for documentary production.
- National Gabriel Award
- National Telly award for nature documentary “Islands of Nature”
- NPPA Advanced Story Telling Workshop faculty member.
In 2008 he started his own business, Glass Mountain Video Productions, and worked as a photojournalist for Helicopters, Inc.
KOMO covered the story, which happened on the street next to their building.
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