Accolades

Professional Photographers of North Carolina Annual Photography Competition

  • 1983 — 1st and 2nd place, and an honorable mention
  • 1984 — Best of Show and 2nd place
  • 1985 — Did not compete
  • 1986 — 1st place
  • 1987 — 1st and 3rd place; PPNC Fellowship award
  • 1988 — Best of Show, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
  • 1989 — 1st and 3rd place
  • 1990 — 3rd place
  • 1991 — 1st and 3rd place
  • 1992 — 3rd place
  • 1993 — Best of Show ( Commercial ) 2nd place, PPNC photographer of the Year.
  • 1994 — Best of Show

Note: From 1995 through 2013 I did not enter any photo competitions with the exception of the Charlotte Observer competition

Additional Awards

  • 2003 — Won Best all around photograph in the first "How I shot my summer vacation” at The Charlotte Observer newspaper.
  • 2014 — Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition = Best in Show award
  • 2015 — Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition = Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation award
  • 2017 — Won the innaugural Highlands, NC Nature Center Photo Contest = Best in Show award

 

— Winner of 4 Kodak Photographic Excellence awards

— Fuji Masterpiece award, 1993

— Earned Professional Photographers of America Master Photographer degree, 1993

— Earned over 25 national awards of merit in print competition through Professional Photographers of America