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The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) has announced the winners of its prestigious awards for 2000. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Erwin and Peggy Bauer of Sequim, Wash., while Thomas Mangelsen of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has been named Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year.

The awards were presented at the Annual Summit in Austin, Texas, January 12-16, 2000. Check the NANPA website, www. nanpa.org, for more information, or call 303-422-8527.

Scott Bourne, owner of Scott Bourne Photography in Tacoma, Wash., received five awards at the Pierce County Professional Photographers Association’s 1999 Semi-Annual Print Competition on October 26. Karen Wolfe, also from Scott Bourne Studio, received two print merits and a Best of Portrait Category award. Bourne’s photograph of a Nevada sunset won the Best of Unclassified Category award and was also judged Best of Show.

The winning prints can be seen at Bourne’s downtown Tacoma studio on top of Old City Hall or on the PCPPA website at www.pcppa.org.

Santa Barbara, California’s Brooks Institute of Photography won the Gold Medal for Best Multi-Image Documentary at last fall’s Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Competitions in San Diego. Twenty students and one faculty member produced the award-winning 10-projector multimedia documentary, entitled Mekong — A Dragon’s Tale, which depicts life along Southeast Asia’s mighty Mekong River.

Dick Busher, Seattle-based Cosgrove Editions’ publisher, won a Benny in the 1999 Printing Industries of America Premier Printing Awards for the biannual publication Northwest Photography. The Benny, short for Benjamin Franklin, is the Best in Category award. Another Cosgrove publication, Kagedo Japanese Art, was runner-up in the same category, which was Stochastic Printing.

A revealing study of illegal immigrants in New York and China, entitled "Divided Lives," has earned Chien-Chi Chang, of Flushing, N.Y., the $20,000 1999 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography prize, sponsored by Nikon, Inc. Secondary fellowships of $2,500 each were awarded to Bill Hess of Wasilla, Alaska, and Fernando Moleres from Orduņa, Spain.

Tammy Cromer-Campbell of Longview, Wash., has received her first-ever grant of $4,500 for her project "Environmental Effects/Fruits of the Orchard," the Blue Earth Alliance recently announced. Her photographs of the tragic human results of a toxic waste injection well facility near Winona, Texas, will be displayed as two exhibits and possibly published in a book by Texas A&M University Press.

Two other projects were selected for BEA sponsorship during the most recent review period: "The Canari of Southern Ecuador," by Judy Blankenship of Portland, Ore., and "Galbuh, The Shaman of Western Mongolia," by David Edwards of Flagstaff, Ariz.

Gerry Ellis of ENP Images in Portland, Oreg., has taken over as guest host for Paramount Pictures’ Wild Things wildlife TV program. Ellis recently led the crew on three adrenaline-filled treks into the African wilderness to track and photograph the continent’s wildlife. The first episode aired in early December on United Paramount Network (UPN). Check Ellis’ website, www.gerryellis.com, for remaining episodes, which are slated for later this season.

Other current projects for Ellis include assignments for the World Wildlife Fund documenting high-priority ecosystems worldwide; "Earth 2000," a special lecture program appearing in American colleges and universities in April; and Wild Orphans, Gerry’s newest book about wildlife orphans and the people who save them.

Photographers John Gateley and Joseph DeRenzo of Panoramics Northwest, Inc. were commissioned to document the painting of a Boeing 777 for the City of New York as the official NYC 2000 aircraft. World-reknowned artist and NYC resident Peter Max designed the paint scheme, which took the paint crew five 24-hour days to apply and added more than 900 pounds to the aircraft.

With DeRenzo on board, the inaugural flight left Boeing Field on the morning of November 15 and was greeted by Mayor Rudy Giuliani at Newark Airport. The on-board news conference, followed by a reception at Peter Max’s studio, was the climax to a terrific photo-op for the Seattle-based photographers.

Seattle photographer Ford Gilbreath won the 1999 Betty Bowen Memorial Award out of a field of 293 applicants from Oregon, Idaho and Washington. The $10,000 award was established by friends of Betty Bowen (1918-1977), a Washington native and enthusiastic supporter of Northwest artists. Gilbreath has been showing his work throughout the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, including a current display at Seattle’s Esther Claypool Gallery.

Allan Mandell of Portland, Oreg., continues to pursue his specialty of garden photography in his new book Garden Retreats: Creating an Outdoor Sanctuary, which will be published by Chronicle Books in March. This project, a collaboration with garden writer Barbara Ashmun, features gardens of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Mandell, whose work appears in magazines such as Fine Gardening, Sunset and Garden Design, received two 1999 Quill & Trowel Awards for Photography from the Garden Writers Association of America.

Photographer Stuart McCall of North Light Images, Ltd. in Vancouver, B.C., a will continue photographing the rehabilitation of the historic Lions Gate Bridge over the next nine months. The 60-year-old landmark structure is the first suspension bridge in the world to have its stiffening truss replaced while remaining open to traffic. Donning safety harnesses, McCall will walk miles of steel cables suspended from towers that rise 20 stories above water at Burrard Inlet. McCall’s past work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Forbes and other leading magazines.

Roger H. Ressmeyer has joined Seattle-based Getty Images, Inc., a leading e-commerce provider of imagery and related products and services, as vice president of strategy & corporate development.

Ressmeyer has over 23 years’ experience in the stock photo and publishing industries.

Prior to joining Getty Images, Ressmeyer served as president and CEO of Visions of Tomorrow, Inc., and held various senior positions at Corbis Corporation.

Ressmeyer specializes in space technology, science and celebrity portraiture and has worked as an award-winning assignment photographer for National Geographic, Time, Life, People, Newsweek, The New York Times, Stern and Geo. In addition, he has authored and/or produced several mass-market picture books including Orbit: NASA Astronaut Photograph the Earth and Space Places.

New York City photographer Cindy Sherman has received the 1999 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The award ceremony will be held in Goteborg, Sweden on March 4, 2000, kicking off a new exhibition of Sherman’s work, organized and curated by the Hasselblad Center.

Eugene, Ore., photographer Greg Vaughn was recently accepted for membership by the Society of American Travel Writers. Acceptance is based on a review by peer professionals of the applicant’s recently published work. SATW is the world’s largest professional organization of travel writers, photographers, editors and publicists.

Vaughn’s photos have appeared in National Geographic, Islands, Natural History, Sunset, Travel & Leisure, Outside and many other publications. In addition, he produced all contemporary photography for Compass American Guides’ Oregon and Pacific Northwest guidebooks, and is a major contributor to their Hawaii and Washington titles.

Randy Wells of Bellevue, Wash., has received another award for his self-promotional Christmas ornament, this time featured in GRAPHIS’s Promotions Design 1 Annual. Randy’s photos also grace the pages of Outdoor Photographer and several year 2000 calendars, including those of Audubon and the Sierra Club. In between recent stock shoots in Germany, Washington, Oregon and California, Randy has squeezed in assignments for Sunset, AAA Journey Magazine, Fikse Wheels and Berringer Winery’s Annual Report.

Stuart and Michele Westmorland have been busy with multiple magazine assignments for Journey and Caribbean Travel & Life. These have included traveling to Barbados, St. Vincent and Mustique, plus shooting several Washington race driving schools and Let’s Play Ball, a feature story on minor-league baseball. The 1999 Earth Day Invitational Exhibition awarded first and second place to Stuart for two of his three prints.

The October/November 1999 edition of Australia’s Sportdiving Magazine currently features Stuart’s 8-page "underwater motion" portfolio. Some of these same images will be on display at the Benham Gallery in February. Westmorland Photography also announces their website at www.westmorlandphoto.com.

Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest has embarked on a new phase of development by saying goodbye to Alin Shether as president. Shether began over 10 years ago with a darkroom rental business and gradually expanded her vision of a unique photographic arts center. Today’s PCNW at 12th Avenue and Marion Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill boasts a gallery, rental darkrooms, classes, workshops and a school offering an accredited three-year certificate program. Tom Corddry is serving as interim executive director while the search continues for Shether’s replacement. Shether will remain on the Board of Directors.

Les Riess, who has served as president of ASMP since 1997, has resigned as president and as a director. His letter of resignation was posted on the ASMP members-only forum on January 3.

Riess was first elected president by the board in 1997 and again in 1998 and 1999. Prior to being elected a national director in 1995, he had served as president of the New Orleans Gulf South chapter from 1993. Riess was ASMP’s leader during the critical severing and restablishing of ties with Eastman Kodak in late 1998, an event which captured the attention of the nation’s business media.

Following Riess’s resignation, Eugene Mopsik was appointed acting president and chairman of the ASMP board of directors. The board will elect a new president by ballot, shortly after the results of the 2000 board election. The new president will take office at the May board meeting.