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Jon attended and entered this year at SYNC in St. Petersberg, Florida. He earned 1st place overall with the combined score of his two folios. Scoring a 1st place in girls with his folio of Kirsty and 2nd place with his folio of Corbin. Also awarded to Jon was the people’s choice award.

Jon entered Senior Portrait Artists while in attendance this past Jan 4-6 in San Diego, California. He received 3rd place over all in the folio competition. Jon also earned 2nd place boys and 5th in the girls category. A 1st place in boys and girls 8×10 was also awarded to Jon.

On February 3rd, 2009 Jon Read was honored by the Professional Photographers of Iowa receiving the National Service Award. Over the years Jon Read has dedicated many service hours to the PPofI and the Professional Photographers of America. It was presented at the annual winter seminar the PPofI holds in Des Moines, Iowa yearly. The Professional Photographers of America describe the award this way:

Volunteers truly are the lifeblood of PPA and its Affiliates. Every association has those extraordinary volunteers whose efforts on behalf of the Affiliate and its members deserve special recognition. Seeking a way to thank these individuals – PPA created the National Award in 1958. Each year, PPA makes this prestigious award available to state, regional, national and international affiliates – who then present it to deserving individuals.   The highest honor granted by a PPA Affiliate, it recognizes those whose
support for photography goes far beyond any regular expectations or contributions. The simple inscription on this plaque reads “for service to professional photography” – but we know that this award means far more than that.

Read Photography attended Senior Portrait Artists in Las Vegas, Nevada. SPA was held at the Red Rock resort and casino this year Jan 3-6th. Jon Read entered the senior folio competition and here are the results:

Highest scoring Boys- (Stuart, model)

Second Place Boys- (Stuart, model)

Judges Ribbon- (Stuart, model)

8th Place Girls- (Camille, model)

So, what is a folio competition?

At Read Photography, Jon Read enters the folio competition every year Read Photography attends SPA. It is just another way to compare our photography skills against the best in the nation. Also, watching the judging of the folios is a great way to learn.

SPA models is a program affiliated with the Senior Portriat Artists organization. It is designed to equip and inspire photographers of high school seniors.  The spa Models program is designed to generate an amazing group of models for the fashion show and photo shoots at spa Event in January each year. Spa is looking for high school senior models who are easy to photograph, enjoyable to work with, and are representative of actual high school seniors.

Seniors
You can enter to be a senior portrait artist™ Model.  Any 2010 high school senior photographed, by the end of September, at a spa Model Studio (Read Photography)  can choose to have his/her senior portraits entered into the model competition.

Each entering senior will receive a set of 10 comp cards, be put on the national spamodels.com web site, and be eligible to be a national spa Model chosen by a spa fashion panel. The 15 national winners will receive a modeling portfolio and a trip to model at the 2010 spa Event in San Diego ,CA on January 3-6, 2010.

Going to the annual winter seminar in Des Moines, Iowa is a reoccurring theme every year for the Read photography crew. Every year our photographers compete in the Professional Photographers of Iowa’s print competition. Its a state level competition to see how we fare against everyone else in the state. On Monday, February 3, 2009 two of our photographers received many awards at the PPof I’s annual seminar.

Adam Hunter received:

Second Place overall (Master’s Division)

First Place Portraits of Men (Master’s Division)

First Place Illustrative (Master’s Division)

Fuji Masterpiece for Illustrative

Highest Scoring Print in Show (99 out of 100)

Craig Volesky received:

First, Second, and Third Place Illustrative (Non-Masters Division)

Kodak Gallery Award for Illustrative

Iowa Photographer of The Year (Non-Masters)

On Tuesday January 13, 2009. Adam Hunter and Brian Read, received their masters degrees from the Profesional Photographers of America. Brian and Adam were also honored to recieve national photographer of the year awards as well. The ceremony was held in Phoenix, Arizona at the convention center.

Xavier’s winter sports cheer had a great time in the studio recently. Here are a few of their group photos from the session.

We photographed Kennedy’s winter sports cheer recently. We had a lot of fun taking their photos. Here is one of their group shots.