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