2005 Portrait Society of America

[Garth Herrick]

Originally Posted by Judson Eneas

I just came back from the portrait conferrence in Reston, Virginia. I learned a lot of interesting things from watching Peggy Baumgartner's 3-hour portrait demonstration.

Dear Judson,

How come I never spotted you among the hundreds of attendees milling about? Wasn't this event great! Did you see any Forum folks? They were everywhere! Too many to list.

Anyway, I had a great time too. Sorry we did not meet.

Here are some pics:

My Award for Jane and Iona.

Me captured by Juan Martinez.

A Gala Dessert.

Juan, and a senior moderator.

Garth

[Linda Brandon]

I'm so sorry to have missed out on meeting many of the Forum members at the convention. It really was a wonderul and exhausting few days! I'm just sitting here trying to decide which of my photos to post, many of which are mysteriously blurry or else will get me into trouble with somebody or other.

[Allan Rahbek]

Dear Linda,
please post them anyway, It

[Rob Sullivan]

Big-time congratulations to Garth and Tony! Honors award, indeed! You guys certainly deserve such credit and recognition for the excellent work you do.

Geez, Garth - that photo of you makes me dizzy. They had a rollercoaster ride at the conference? Well, I'll plunk down the $ next time if they have the Lightning Loops on hand!

[Linda Brandon]

Well, here's a blurry photo of the Finalists. I will remove this photo as soon as somebody else posts a better one, so if you have one, please post it. I also need help identifying the people here, so please email me privately if you can help me out and I can make a list.

The two tall gentlemen on the right in the back are Garth Herrick and Tony Pro. Congratulations again!

[Linda Brandon]

Here's a photo of the combined Merit Award and Certificate of Recognition winners (not everybody was there at the conference). Again, I don't have all the names, so please email me and I will post them here.

Marvin Mattelson is third from the left standing in the back row next to Chris Saper and Sergio Ostroverhy is standing second from the right. I'm seated, the third one from the left.

[Garth Herrick]

There are 13 finalists in Linda's photo above.

The eight standing in the rear received Honors Awards. L-R:

Steven Pan, California
Jean-Paul Tibbles, UK
Xiangyuan Jie, NY
John Michael Carter
Jennifer Welty
Glenn Harrington
Garth Herrick
Tony Pro


The five seated received the big awards. L-R:

Mau-kun Yim, Taiwan
Joseph Daily (First Place & People's Choice)
Romulo Galicano, Philippines (Grand Prize)
Paul Newton, Australia
Stephen Craighead

Garth

[Sharon Knettell]

Garth,

How TERRIFIC for you. I could not be happier. It was a beautiful painting. The others must have been wowsers to beat it.

Although I would have preferred a more Rocky like picture of you holding the award aloft, say in red silk boxing trunks and high tops.

Just a thought.