Picture Perfect

Jack Kintner was awarded second place statewide in general news photography by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for 2021. His photo selected for the prize showed a couple whose wedding had been postponed at the last minute by the sudden COVID border closure. The couple is less than 10 feet from each other, talking across the ditch that marks the U.S.-Canada border, but neither is allowed to cross. Kintner was ordained in 1971 after attending Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. He served in Michigan, Washington, and British Columbia for 30 years until retiring to change careers to photojournalism.