“Crater Lake National Park Wild and Beautiful” has been named the Official Book of the Centennial Celebration for Crater Lake National Park. Four photographers, Charles Blakeslee, John Hinderman, Fred Pfughoft and David Morris, captured the character of the park throughout the seasons and portrayed a number of the hard-to-find creatures who make Crater Lake their home.

Portland, Ore.’s Bruce Forster has completed a series of images for Kinetics, a provider of services for the semiconductor and biopharmaceutical industries. Another recent project was the photographing of the new Oregon Symphony conductor, Carlos Kalmar, during Kalmar’s recent visit to Portland.

Shawn Frederick Photography recently completed the Verizon (Hispanic) project for La Agencia de Orci, based in Los Angeles. The images will appear as diorama billboards throughout Shea Stadium in Flushing, N.Y. Frederick’s studio also won the Remo Drums shoot for Spasmodic Agency of Laguna Beach, Calif.

Photojournalist Geoffrey Hiller of Portland, Ore., returned to his native New York last November to document the emotional devastation that followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The result is “NYC: After the Fall,” a multimedia presentation featured on Hiller’s site at www.hillerphoto.com/nyc.

Photographer and climber Didrik Johnck chronicled blind, world-class athlete/adventurer Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent up Mount Elbrus in Russia in June. Johnck, based in San Francisco, also was the expedition photographer for Weihenmayer’s climb up Mount Everest in May 2001.

Dan Karvasek’s image of a flock of snow geese taking flight over Washington’s Skagit Valley has been chosen as the March 2003 photograph for Nikon’s International Photo Contest Calendar.

Los Angeles photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum is traveling in Germany this autumn and was scheduled to speak at the Internationales Naturfoto-Festival 2002 in Lunen, Germany, on Oct. 6. In addition, an exhibition of Ketchum’s work, “Changing Perspective,” will be held at the festival through Nov. 16, at Lunen’s Hilpert Theater.

Breast cancer survivors share their stories in “Reconstructing Aphrodite,” a book of photography and commentary focusing on women who have opted for breast reconstruction. Photographer Terry Lorant of Oakland, Calif., worked with plastic surgeon Lauren Eskenazi to celebrate the health and reconstruction of 20 cancer survivors.

Lance Rossing, who formed TeamPhotogenic.com with Seattle-based Duell Fisher and Kirk Swink, has created an online photo purchasing service and gallery called YourPhotoZ.com. The new system will allow friends and family to e-mail photos from events covered by Team Photogenic Services.

Seattle-based photographer David Walega has completed a two-month assignment for UNICEF in the African country of Burundi. Walega’s images focus on the shelters and hospitals in the war-torn region and their efforts to protect children from the ongoing civil war. Prior to leaving Africa, Walega collaborated with Seattle journalist Christopher Dalkos on a photo essay examining Lambert House, a drop-in shelter for gay youth in Seattle.

Special Honors

Seattle’s Natalie Fobes has received the 2003 Fellow Award given by the North American Nature Photography Association. The Pulitzer Prize finalist and co-founder of Blue Earth Alliance is known for her work documenting how humans affect the environment. Blue Earth Alliance recently honored Fobes as the first recipient of its new Natalie Award, which was inspired by her efforts to change the world through photography.

Pete Moraz of Spokane, Wash., has received the Kodak Gallery Award, which recognizes excellence in photography, from Kodak’s Professional Division. Moraz was honored for “Jewel of the Nile,” which was named Best Portrait of a Woman at the Professional Photographers of Washington’s 50th Anniversary Convention and Print Competition.

Commercial photographer Doug Walker, of Walker Photography in Olympia, Wash., is a recipient of a memorial scholarship to the Pacific Northwest School of Professional Photography, presented at the Professional Photographers of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Educational Conference and Print Competition held recently in Bellingham, Wash.

On the Move

Brian Storm has left MSNBC.com in Bellevue, Wash., to accept a position in New York City as vice president of news and editorial photography at Corbis, the digital media agency. In his new endeavor, Storm will be working with photographers and editing teams in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He will be responsible for defining and implementing a global strategy for the production of editorial photography.

Passages

Yousuf Karsh, known for his dramatically lit portraits of the 20th century’s most influential people, died at 93 on July 13 in Boston from complications following surgery. In his 60-year career, Karsh’s subjects included 15,000 celebrities from around the globe. His camera often produced the defining portraits of such people as Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Karsh was born of Armenian parents in Turkey on Dec. 23, 1908. In 1924, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in Nova Scotia, Canada, to escape political unrest. In 1932, he opened his own portrait studio in Ottawa, Ontario. During World War II, on assignments from the Canadian government and Life magazine, he photographed American and British war leaders.