ANNUAL IMAGE COMPETITION!
Join as an entrant or observer to learn and enhance your skills by hearing the judges' conversations, seeing the scores, and listening to challenges.
When: October 22, 2025
Time: Judging starts at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
Where: Zoom
Join via Zoom to view and hear the judging live. Viewing the event is free for everyone who registers!
Entry Details:
- You may enter up to a maximum of ten entries in any one category
Entry fees:
Members $12
Nonmembers $20
Our Annual Competition is different than our quarterly competitions, so please be sure to carefully review our Image Competition page for the updated rules.
Judges:
Bob Coates M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr., CPP EA-ASP
Coates started taking photographs with an SLR borrowed from a friend for a vacation back in 1983. After successfully managing other peoples businesses for 14 years while photographing on the side, he decided to follow the quote "Do what you love and you will become a success."
In March of 1994 Bob left the restaurant business and took the leap to become a professional photographer. According to Bob, “The wonderful thing about photography is the continual learning and growth. Every day is a new discovery, a new way of seeing and new way of processing images to see my reality come to life. Coates constantly challenges himself to expand his knowledge of photography and shares that information with others.
Photographer, educator and author, Bob Coates is based in Sedona, AZ with his wife and best friend Holly. See his photographers web site - successful-photographer.com. Check Bob’s photographic work out on his other web sites coatesart.net and bcphotography.com. Bob has Milky Way and Night Sky Photography Workshops in Sedona, Arizona and is available for mentoring.
Thea Martin
Kathryn Meek M.Photog.Cr., CPP, API
Kathy Meek is co-owner of Gary’s Studio of Photography in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Kathy has received her Master of Photography and Photographic Craftsman degrees from PPA and is a Certified Professional Photographer. She is also an Approved Photographic Instructor (API) and is a PPA International Juror. She has received the Image Excellence Award from PPA. She has received the Associate Fellowship, Fellowship, and Senior Fellowship Degrees from the Arkansas Professional Photographers Association and the Associate Fellowship, Fellowship, and Senior Fellowship from SWPPA.
Kathy is active in State, Regional, and National Associations. She is a Past President of the Arkansas Professional Photographers Association. She is a Past President of the Southwestern Professional Photographers Association and the American Society of Photographers. She has served on the Professional Photographers of America Board of Directors.
She has received numerous image awards on the State, Regional, and International levels. She has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Arkansas Professional Photographers Association and the PPA National Award from the Arkansas Professional Photographers Association, the Southwestern Professional Photographers Association, and the American Society of Photographers.
Kathy has received the Tom McDonald Award (formerly the Gerhard Bakker Award). The Tom McDonald Award is presented by PPA to an individual, school, company, or organization that best epitomizes outstanding service through education in the field of photography and visual communications.
Tim Meyer
Sandra Pearce
If you have any questions, please contact printcomp@marylandppa.com