Last weekend I made my way to Washington DC for the ImagingUSA conference through PPA. After some airplane troubles I got to the hotel.
Saturday morning I spoke to a group of people about the art and business of Architecture photography. Three hour talk went by like an hour, I think there was a lot of good information shared with the class.
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After the presentation I was able to visit parts of DC with the family. And on Monday was able to attend the award ceremony for PPA where I was awarded the Image Excellence award which means that since I started to compete with my images I've been able to reach 13 Image excellence (previously called "loans")

It was a level that I was excited to achieve after getting a GIA finalist nomination, World Cup finalist. (still on my list to get top choice for both)
After that presentation, the GIA's were up. in previous years it would be top 3 for each category; however this year they changed it so it would only be one winner for all the categories. The winner was in the portrait category.
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Thanks to PPA for keeping ImagingUSA going throughout this crazy time of the year.