Awards

Honors and Awards

2015

Runner Up, “People, Culture and Daily Life”

The 7th Worldwide Photography Gala, Pollux Awards, York, the UK

 

Finalist, “Landscapes and Seascapes” (other finalists included Peter Lik)

The 7th Worldwide Photography Gala, Pollux Awards, York, the UK

Director’s Honorable Mention (placing my entry in the show’s top 2%)

Portrait 2016, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2013

Juror’s Choice Award (Frank Goodyear, Assistant Curator/Photography,

The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution)

Photo / Video 2013, Artisphere, Arlington, VA

2009

The New York Times’ Must See: Most Provocative Websites list

 

Honorable Mention

Going Green

Museum of Anthropology, California State University, Chico, CA

Connie and Bernard Grolman Award

11th Annual Wills Creek Survey, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

2008

Featured photographer for a West Coast Imaging Case Study, discussing the
intermarrying of new and traditional media to produce hyper-real images:
http://www.westcoastimaging.com/wci/page/casestudies/walker/walker.html

2005

Third Place

Paducah Summer Festival Photo Show, Paducah, KY

2004

Third Place and Honorable Mention

Paducah Summer Festival Photo Show, Paducah, KY

2003

The Kim and Marion Leonard Award

5th Annual Will’s Creek Survey, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

 

Honorable Mention

The Ninth Annual Juried Photography Contest

Texas Artists Museum Society, Port Arthur, TX

2002

Grand Prize

“The Artist’s Hand”

Museum of Anthropology, California State University, Chico

 

Second Place

Paducah Summer Festival Photo Show, Paducah, KY

2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998

First Place

Black and White Flora, Outdoor Writers Association of America

2001

Grand Prize

Photogenesis Midwest Regional Photo Competition, David Taylor, Juror

2000

Pulitzer Finalist

Investigative Reporting, project photographer (one of two)

Block News Alliance, Toledo, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA

1999

First Place

Color Photography, Outdoor Writers of Ohio

1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993

First Place

Black and White Photography, Outdoor Writers of Ohio

1998, 1994

First Place

Best Nature Photo, Black and White, Outdoor Writers of Ohio

1997

Second and Third Places

Medallion Awards, National Council for Marketing and Public Relations

1995

Worldwide Top 100 Emerging Photographers List

The Ernst Haas Awards, Maine Photographic Workshops

 

Second Place

Portraits, The Ernst Haas Awards; ~30,000 entries, contest-wide

 

First Place

Spot News, Ohio News Photographers Association

1993

First Place

Fashion, Ohio News Photographers Association