Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.
The winners for the February 2016 AP Staff Photo Contest are John Locher, Gerald Herbert, Patrick Semansky, Matt Rourke, Dave Weaver, Jae C. Hong, Steve Helber, Andrew Harnik, Charles Krupa and Paul Sancya in News Photography for “On the Campaign Trail,” Oded Balilty in Feature Photography for “Glass Mountains,” and Frank Augstein in Sports Photography for “Getting the Shot In.”
Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images are featured below.
News Photography | On the Campaign Trail by John Locher, Gerald Herbert, Patrick Semansky, Matt Rourke, Dave Weaver, Jae C. Hong, Steve Helber, Andrew Harnik, Charles Krupa and Paul Sancya
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters as she arrives to speak to supporters at her election night watch party for the South Carolina Democratic primary in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
People react while meeting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Precinct chair John Anderson holds pencils and slips of paper to be used by voters to select their candidates at a Republican party caucus in Nevada, Iowa, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich takes a quick breakfast break after a campaign stop, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, in Pawleys Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Sharon McNutt speaks to voters at a caucus site Monday, Feb 1, 2016, in Silver City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks down the steps after speaking at a caucus site, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Clive, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and his wife, Jane arrive for a rally in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accompanied by his wife Heidi, left, takes the stage to speak at a rally at Eagle Aviation Hangar in Columbia, S.C., Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gestures as he addresses a gathering during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and his family pray during opening of a caucus site, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 in Clive, Iowa. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Feature Photography | Glass Mountains by Oded Balilty
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker breaks defective glass bottles to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Factory workers grind these rejects into shards and pile them outside. Recycled glass bottles from across the country are sent here and ground up, too. The glass pieces are shoveled into the ovens to be fired into new glass bottles. Sand, the basic ingredient of glass, is hauled in from a nearby desert quarry. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 photo, broken glass bottles are piled up to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Deep in the heart of Israel’s desert, shimmering mountains of glass dominate the landscape. Tiny shards, millions of them, are piled into rolling hills of green and brown. They are 50 feet high and span the length of a few soccer fields. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker collects plastic bottles among piles of broken glass, later to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd., Israel’s only glass container factory, produces one million containers a day. Some 300,000 bottles a day come out with defects, and the factory grinds them into shards and piles them in a desert lot to be melted into new bottles. The factory is in the middle of the desert, and works round the clock, every day of the year. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, workers unload defective glass bottles to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Factory workers grind these rejects into shards and pile them outside. Recycled glass bottles from across the country are sent here and ground up, too. The glass pieces are shoveled into the ovens to be fired into new glass bottles. Sand, the basic ingredient of glass, is hauled in from a nearby desert quarry. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker breaks defective glass bottles to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. produces a million bottles and containers a day for beverage giants Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Heineken, as well as Israeli wineries and olive oil companies. Every day, about 300,000 bottles come out of the ovens with defects. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, an employee carries a box of defective glass bottles to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Factory workers grind these rejects into shards and pile them outside. Recycled glass bottles from across the country are sent here and ground up, too. The glass pieces are shoveled into the ovens to be fired into new glass bottles. Sand, the basic ingredient of glass, is hauled in from a nearby desert quarry. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, a worker pushes a wheelbarrow with broken glass bottles at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Factory workers grind these rejects into shards and pile them outside. Recycled glass bottles from across the country are sent here and ground up, too. The glass pieces are shoveled into the ovens to be fired into new glass bottles. Sand, the basic ingredient of glass, is hauled in from a nearby desert quarry. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, glass bottles move on the production line at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. About 250 employees keep the factory running 24 hours a day, every day of the year. They even work on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, when everything else in the country grinds to a halt. They can’t turn off the ovens, because the molten glass lava will harden and clog them. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, glass bottles move on the line of production at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. produces a million bottles and containers a day for beverage giants Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Heineken, as well as Israeli wineries and olive oil companies. Every day, about 300,000 bottles come out of the ovens with defects. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 photo, birds fly above broken glass later to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. produces a million bottles and containers a day for beverage giants Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Heineken, as well as Israeli wineries and olive oil companies. Every day, about 300,000 bottles come out of the ovens with defects. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 photo, broken glass bottles later to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Tiny shards, millions of them, are piled into rolling hills of green and brown. They are 50 feet high and span the length of a few soccer fields. This is the junkyard at Israel’s only glass container factory, where broken glass awaits a new life. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, a broken sign lies on the ground at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. produces a million bottles and containers a day for beverage giants Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Heineken, as well as Israeli wineries and olive oil companies. Every day, about 300,000 bottles come out of the ovens with defects. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Sports Photography | Getting the Shot In by Frank Augstein
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