Awards & Distinctions
2023 Alaska Positive, Alaska State Museum, Juneau
http://tinyurl.com/23m9kfd7
2023 Short Listed: Close Up Photographer of the Year (05); UK
https://www.cupoty.com/intimate-landscape-shortlist-5
2023
Photo ArtFolio: Light Visions - "Road Trip"
https://www.photo-artfolio.com/galleries/lightvisions-pjxbn
2023
Rarefied Light: The Alaska Photographic Center, Anchorage, AK
https://akphotocenter.org/2023-rarefied-light-award-winners-announced/
2022
Shortlisted: Closeup Photographer of the Year (04); UK
https://www.cupoty.com/intimate-landscape-shortlist-04
2021
Rarefied Light: The Alaska Photographic Center, Anchorage, AK
http://akphotocenter.org/virtual-walkthrough-of-rarefied-light-2021/
2020
Featured: Lensculture - 65 Amazing Photos Inspired by the Earth
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-65-amazing-photo-series-inspired-by-the-earth
2020
Alaska Biennial 2020, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK
https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/exhibits/alaska-biennial-2020/
2020
Hon. Mention, International Photo Awards, Fine Art: Abstract
https://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-195802-20
2020
Shortlisted, Intimate Landscape, Close-up Photographer of the Year
2019
Finalist: Big Picture Natural World Photography, California Academy of Sciences
https://lorinotes.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/best-of-the-big-picture/
2018
Your Daily Photograph, an international auction service, is featuring 'Face Time' on its site. It's an image of a natural ice formation, a seldom-seen, whimsical artifact, discovered near the Tanana River. YDP caters to private and public collectors, is curated by experts, and regularly offers images by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andreas Gursky, Richard Misrach, Andre Kertesz, and Edward Burtynsky. It is a delight to be featured in such company.
See 'Face Time' here: http://eepurl.com/dMnW1o
2018
Rarefied Light: The Alaska Photographic Center hosts the leading photo competition in Alaska. Held annually, the 2018 event drew more than 600 entires from 91 photographers. My image 'Road Trip' was selected Best of Show by juror Arthur Meyerson. The photo was made in Fairbanks during the spring ice festival. A 24-inch-thick ice wall, part of a sculpture, filtered the scene. Learn more here: http://akphotocenter.org/?p=702 and here: https://tinyurl.com/yas6x5rf
2018
'Road Trip' was selected by The Photo Review for its 2018 Competition issue. The journal began publication in 1976. According to editor Stephen Perloff, the photograph was among 1,900 entries by over 420 photographers. Less than 4 percent of submissions were accepted.
Learn more here: http://www.photoreview.org/wordpressindex/
Best of Show, Honorable Men.; Circumpolar, Frozen Lenses [open call],
University of Alaska Photo Club. Juror: Jeff Schultz.
2015
TransNatura Nature Photogtraphy, Covasna, Romania
Two Finalists: https://www.vadon.ro/english/30
2014
Tithe Grant Award, The Blake Society, London, UK.
https://tinyurl.com/tdz2cm6c
2013
Cover image: 'Fading Light', a collaboration of writers and photographers, Taylor and O’Neill, St. Paul. MN.
2012
Alaska Positive, a statewide competition organized by the Alaska State Museum. Honorable Mention: 'Main Street, Ester, Alaska'.
https://museums.alaska.gov/online_exhibits/ak_positive_2012.html
2011
Grand Prize (Sept. issue), Alaska Magazine photo contest: 'Fata Morgana'
2010
Annual poster: 'Spring Frieze'. KUAC FM & TV [PBS/NPR], University of Alaska Fairbanks. https://tinyurl.com/y8v8ezjp
2009
50/50: Commemorating 50 Years of Statehood, Alaska Humanities Forum, Anchorage, Alaska
https://tinyurl.com/y88xhzgo