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July 28, 2010
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NEWS RELEASE



PPA Communications Winners PPW Website gets Honorable Mention- Catagory VII		June, 2009
	Congratulations to the 2009 Affiliate Communications Competition winners and all participants! Yes, the results are FINALLY in (is that a big sigh of relief I hear?). This year seemed to be tough on the judges—as you’ll see in the several ties we have! There’s a tie for first place in Category V (the pdf category), and the other winners in that category were only about half a point away from each other. The same goes for Category VII (the websites) where there were 4 Honorable Mention ties! The amazing breadth of resources on the winning sites and publications are wonderful (and the judges liked them, too). The bar has definitely been lifted. Scoring & Critiques: The judges scored the publications and websites for editorial content, service to members, and overall appearance. The editorial content and service factors have the most weight when totaling the overall score. Merits: The competition awards every eligible entrant one PPA merit per entry. Those who place or earn an honorable mention receive an additional merit for each winning entry…and bragging rights! Category I - Printed publication of more than 12 pages, 4-color, published at least 3 times per year. 1st Place: Peggy & Steven Roosa, Professional Photographers of California. Pro Photo West 2nd Place: Bill Hedrick, M.Photog.Cr., Texas Professional Photographers Association Texas Professional Photographer 3rd Place: Kalen Henderson, M.Photog.MEI.Cr., CPP, API, American Society of Photographers ASP Magazine Hon. Mention: Donald E. Hayden, Cr.Photog., Southwest Professional Photographers Association Southwest Image Category II - Printed publication of more than 12 pages, 1- or 2-color, published at least 3 times per year. 1st Place: Scott Green, Cr.Photog., CPP, Detroit Professional Photographers Association Detroit Newsletter 2nd Place: Kitty L. Pugh, Cr.Photog., CPP, Virginia Professional Photographers Association, Inc. Virginia Professional Photographer 3rd Place: Ladd Scavnicky, M.Photog.Cr., CPP, Professional Photographers of Ohio The Contact Sheet Hon. Mention: Scott Green, Cr.Photog., CPP, Professional Photographers of Michigan PPM Category III - Printed publication of 12 or fewer pages, 4-color, published at least 3 times per year. 1st Place: Jennifer Brum, CPP, Professional Photographers Society of North Florida Prolog No other winners Category IV - Printed publication or 12 or fewer pages, 1- or 2-color, published at least 3 times a year. 1st Place: Fuller Royal, M.Photog.Cr., Professional Photographers of North Carolina Focus on Carolina 2nd Place: Sandra Harris, Cr.Photog., Professional Photographers of Sacramento Valley Latent Image 3rd Place: Donald E. Hayden, Cr.Photog., Indian Nations Professional Photographers Association INPPA Exposure Category V - Publication posted online or attached to an e-mail, at least 3 times a year. 1st Place (TIE): Sarah Pfeiffer, Professional Photographers of Nebraska News & Views 1st Place (TIE): Deborah Wiltsey, Cr.Photog., Wisconsin Pro Photographers Association, Inc. The Wisconsin Photographer 2nd Place: Jacqueline Cooper, South Central Photographers Association Through the Lens 3rd Place: Joseph A. Weber, M.Photog.Cr., PPA of Northern Illinois, Inc. Northern HiLites Hon. Mention: Deborah Morrison, Suffolk Photographers Guild of New York SPGNY Newsletter Category VI - E-newsletter distributed via e-mail, at least 3 times a year. 1st Place: Wendy Newman, CPP, Arizona Professional Photographers Association AzPPA Monthly Bulletin 2nd Place: Sandra Harris, Cr.Photog., Professional Photographers of Sacramento Valley E-newsletter 3rd Place: Gerry Solan, Cr.Photog., CPP, Triangle Photographers Association Triangle Photographers Association E-news Category VII - Web site designed exclusively for a PPA affiliate group or school. 1st Place: Wayne Winders, Associated Professional Photographers of Illinois www.appillinois.com 2nd Place: Gregory Scott Doramus, Professional Photographers of Southwest Florida www.ppswf.com 3rd Place: Heidi Theriault, Connecticut Professional Photographers Association www.ctppa.com Hon. Mention: Bob Coates, M.Photog.Cr., CPP, (TIE) Arizona Professional Photographers Association http://arizonappa.com/index3.html Hon. Mention: Scott Green, Cr.Photog., CPP, (TIE) Professional Photographers of Michigan www.ppm.org Hon. Mention: Dave Johnson, M.Photog.Cr., CPP, (TIE) Twin Cities Professional Photographers Association www.tcppa.org Hon. Mention: Michael Thresher, (TIE) Professional Photographers of Washington www.ppw.org Congratulations to all! Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Angela Wijesinghe Marketing Specialist 229 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303-1608

PPA Defines New Districts
Sam Gardner - PPA Councilor
May, 2009

PPA currently has 13 regions and as of 2011 they will have the five "districts". Our Western States district will consist of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Nevada and the three new ones joining us for the first time - Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.

The P.E.C. calculated these new districts to make them approximately the same size as far as the number of print cases that were entered in 2007. They felt this was the fairest way to re-distribute the opportunity for each district to afford the hosting of these P.E.C. events. Each new district should have approximately 200 cases of entries coming in. We had just 124 cases this year at Western States judging when we hosted it at Grand Mound Washington.

Overall the growth in case count could be a really good thing for PPW and the conference budget. One factor which can make a huge difference is to utilize jurors as speakers when possible as PPW gets the advantage of two workers for one airfare/per diem/Etc.
This year at our judging, it seemed that a lot of people were disappointed with the scores. The way the breakdown came out was very interesting. The Print Exhibition Committee,(PEC), is the committee from PPA who oversees and owns the regional judgings in north America. They suggest that a "normal" regional judging will have approximately 20% to 30% of all images entered score at 80 or higher and thus earn a national merit-seal of approval.

This year- here at Western States, if you look at the results of just the PPA members and remove the PPW members, there were about 24% of the images making the 80 or higher mark. If you use just the new and first time entries from within PPW, then the average was even better at about 27%. The only group to score rather poorly were the longer-termed members of PPW who's average of about %7 at 80 or higher actually lowered the overall average of the entire region. While it was unfortunate to see some PPW members prints score this way, it was very exciting to see the new members score so well, and take home so many of the awards and trophies.


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