First Professional Print Competition

Just trying to play catch up with recent events here. In late February I attended my first Professional Photographers of Oregon annual convention and print competition. It was a whirlwind of great photographers, food, info overload, and excellent photos. I am truly thankful for my photographer friend Joni Kabana (who is a mighty fine photographer) for introducing me to PPO.
Not only was it great to be submerged for several days with some of the best photographers around, I also decided to brave my first professional print compeition. Now realize I did this more to get feedback to improve my work. I did get the feedback yet I was fortunate enough to have some of that come in the way of four awards. It blew me away! For two different prints I won: Best Color Print, Best Black & White Print, Best Photojournalism Print, and Kodak Gallery of Excellence in commercial/Illustrative Print. Additionally one of the prints scored high enough to be placed in the PPO 2006 Court of Honor. Winning prints are here in the blog... "Rodeo Colors" and "Hood's Early Light." Now I have Molly signed up with PPO and we are both going to the seminar on the beach in June!