Honorable Mention, in alphabetic order.

About the Jurors...

Lynn Baldwin began his photographic career as a photographer in the U. S. Navy and continued his career in commercial, medical and editorial photography. He headed the Department of Biomedical Communication at the University Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and retired from there in 1993. His scientific and medical photography has been exhibited in the United States and Canada. Baldwin had continued his career by pursuing projects in the photographic arts. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the United Kingdom, including The Houston Center for Photography (TX), Galveston Arts Center ((TX) Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, and the Richard Wilson Arts Center Nantlle, Wales (UK). His photographs are in private collections and in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin. Mr. Baldwin is a member of the board of directors of the Texas Photographic Society and a past member of the board of the Houston Center for Photography and a past president of the Biological Communications Association.

Diane Griffin Gregory, founding partner of Caslin Gregory & Associates, Consultants to the Arts, has over 20 years in the volunteer and visual arts arenas. She was founding president and served seven years on the board of a parent-support organization at a local parochial school. Following the attainment of her second degree, BA in studio art in 1985 at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, she began her visual art career as a painter and ceramist. From 1992-2000, Gregory fulfilled various positions, including assistant director, at Art League Houston. From 2000-2005, she was administrative director at Houston Center for Photography. Included in her numerous responsibilities for those non-profit organizations were development and fundraising research and implementation, strategic planning, fiscal and operations management, and gallery installations and management. Gregory is also experienced as a curator, an educator, a juror and has been a peer panelist for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County since 1998.

Stuart Larson is a Photographic Artist living in Houston. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions though-out the entire United States. In Houston he is represented by Bering & James, a gallery located in the Rice Village, where you can currently see his work on display. He is the head of Graphic Design at the University of Houston-Clear Lake where he has worked for the past 5 years to bring the curriculum fully into the digital age. His courses are focused on the fundamentals of art and design. He teaches courses in Digital Collage Manipulation, Digital Drawing, Typography, Advertising Design, and Web Design and Animation. Larson received his BFA in Video Production from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his MFA in Photography from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester N.Y., where he studied under one of the great master's of photography, Nathan Lyons.

Matthew Linton is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He holds his BFA in Photography from Arizona State University and his MFA in Critical and Visual Studies from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.