Rangefinder Magazine
December 2005
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WPPI Awards of Excellence Winnders Editorial Staff
WPPI Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
with Record Number Prints
WPPI’s 25th Annual 16x20 Print Competition was held
at BALLY’s, Las Vegas, on March 19 and 20, 2005. A
record 2300 prints were judged in a two-day period by
four panels of judges.
There are five major categories in the print competition: Wedding
(Bride and Groom Together, Bride or Groom Alone, Bridal
Party, and Engagement); Photojournalism (Non-Wedding Photojournalism,
Wedding Photojournalism, Wedding Details, Wedding
Humor, and Non-Wedding Humor); Portrait (Children, High
School Senior, Individual, Group, and Animals/Pets); Commercial
(Technical/Scientific/Industrial, Illustrative, Editorial/Fashion, and
Fine Art); and Premier (this is an open category for first-time participants
in WPPI 16x20 print competition).
Each sub-category has first, second and third place winners, and
there is a Grand Award winner for each main category. This year
each Grand Award winner received a crystal award along with a
valuable piece of photographic equipment from WPPI sponsors.
The Wedding category Grand Award winner received a Fujifilm
Finepix S3 Pro DSLR with a Tamron lens. The Portrait Grand
Award winner received a Canon EOS 20D DSLR. The Photojournalism
Grand Award winner received a Nikon D2H Pro DSLR. The
Commercial Grand Award winner received an Olympus E-1 Pro
SLR digital camera. And the Premier category Grand Award winner
received a $2000 gift certificate from the MAC Group.
WPPI also held an album competition with four categories: Wedding
(single photographer), Wedding (multiple photographers or
studio submission), Event, Non-wedding (Bar Mitzvahs, parties,
graduations, family reunions), and Non-event, Informal (family
albums, friends—not tied to a specific event but a collection of storytelling
images). The Album Grand Award winner received a Kodak
Professional DCS Pro SLR/n Digital Camera and a Tamron lens.
The following images represent the first place award winners in
each category, as well as the Grand Award winner for that category.
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Bride & Groom Together, First Place and Grand Award Wedding Category—Jerry Ghionis from Fairfield, Australia, for “Le Louvre”
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Bride or Groom Alone, First Place—Joe Buissink from Beverly Hills, California, for “Donna Lee”
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above (from left to right): Bridal Party, First Place—Anthony Cava from Ottawa, Canada, for “Me Too, Me Too”; Engagement, First Place—Bryan
White from Cumming, Georgia, for “Je t’Aime”; Non-wedding Photojournalism, First Place—Christian Lalonde from Ottawa, Canada, for “The Tickle”;
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(clockwise from left): Wedding Photojournalism, First Place and Grand Award Photojournalism Category—Frank Cava from Ottawa, Canada, for
“Better Late Than Never”; Wedding Details, First Place—Elaine Hughes from Columbus, Ohio, for “Preparing the Wedding Day Feast”; Wedding Humor, First
Place—Dennis Orchard from London, England, for “The Stag Party”
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Above: Animals/Pets, First Place—Juli Cialone from Rochester, NY, for “Tender Touch”
Right: Editorial/Fashion, First Place—Shannon Buffrey from Sydney, Australia, for “Feathers”
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Left: Premier, First Place—Teri Quance from Cypress, Texas, for “Playful Pals”
Above: Grand Award Premier Category—Charr Crail from Sacramento, California, for
“Standing Room Only”
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Above: Illustrative, First Place and Grand Award Commercial Category—
Peter Eastway from Collaroy Beach, Australia, for “Miracoli”
Right: Fine Art, First Place—Frank Cava from Ottawa, Canada, for
“Next Door”
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The Grand Award in the
Album Category went
to Anthony Cava for his
album, “Zizi,” which was
entered in the Non-event,
Informal category.
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