Rick Dawson CPP
85 Kimberly Rd.
Bassett, Virginia 24055
Phone (276) 647-3412
e-mail:
rickydawson1@comcast.net
Rick Dawson has been
operating a photography
business since 1978.
Starting by hand processing Black & White film
and using color film to produce photographies for
clients and made the jump to be fully digital in 2002.
In January 2007 he receive the Certified Professional
Photographer from the Professional Photographers of
American. Only 3% of professional photographers has
achieve this certification after having 20 images judged
by a panel of Master Certified Photographers and
passing a time general photography knowledge test.
During this time, he has won many awards in nature
photography. In June 2008 a photograph "Who Me"
was accepted for a merit and to be shown at the
Professional Photography of America International
Print Competition at the Phoenix, Arizona convention in
January 2009. In April 2004, a photograph “Tsunami”
was accepted for exhibition at the Southeastern
Professional Photographers Association. The
same image was also accepted to be shown at the
Professional Photography of America International
Print Competition at the Las Vegas, Nevada convention
in July 2004.
In February 2009 three prints were accepted to be
displayed at the Southeastern Professional
Photographers Association convention in
Lawrenceville, GA.
He gained more experience in photography with six
years of photojournalism at Martinsville Bulletin in
Martinsville, VA. The training lead to photographing
sports action pictures for local high school yearbooks
and local youth sports team. For the last none years he
was a commercial photographer at Collinsville Printing
Company. This position covers photographing at
variety of subjects from furniture to automobiles and
portraits for wall-sized posters.
For the last seven years, he has taught workshops on
Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop at
Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville VA,
Nature photography workshops at Reynolds
Homestead and has been a Professional
Photographers of America Super Monday instructor
since 2002.
He is a member of the Professional Photographers
of America ,Virginia Professional Photographers
Association, Southeastern Professional
Photographers Association and National
Association of Photoshop Professionals,
Professional Photographers of North Carolina
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| 2005 |
| Awards |
| Dawson Photography |
| First Light was accepted for exhibition and also a Blue Ribbon at the Virginia Professional Photographers Association Annual Convention in Richmond VA. |
| Out to Lunch was accepted for exhibition and also a Blue Ribbon at the Virginia Professional Photographers Association Annual Convention an accepted for the exhibition at the Southeastern Photographers Association Annual Convention |
| Rough Night was accepted to be exhibition at the Southeastern Professional Photographers Association |
| Tsunami was accepted to be display at both the Southeastern Professional Photographers Association, . Professional Photographers of America |
| Rick Dawson CPP |
| 2004 |
Who Me was accepted to be
display at the Professional
Photographers of America
display at the Professional
Photographers of America
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