Rick Dawson CPP
85 Kimberly Rd.
Bassett, Virginia 24055
Phone (276) 647-3412
e-mail:
rickydawson1@comcast.net
Rick Dawson has been
in photography for over 30
years, starting in black &
white and moving to digital
images. In January 2007 he
receive the Certified
Professional Photographer
Degree from the Professional Photographers of
American
During this time, he has won many awards in nature
photography. 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 2005 two prints were awarded blue ribbons
at the Virginia Professional Photographers
Association in Richmond. In April 2005 two pictures
were accepted to be displayed at the Southeastern
Professional Photographers Association convention
in Atlanta, GA.
He gained more experience in photography during six
years of photojournalism at Martinsville Bulletin in
Martinsville, VA. The training lead to sports action
pictures for the local high school yearbooks and local
youth team sports photos. For the last seven years
he has been 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. He has
also help built an in house studio with professional
lighting; and location photos for brochures that local
companies show new clients.
For the last seven years, he has taught over 100
workshops on Digital Photography, Adobe
Photoshop CS2 at Patrick Henry Community College,
nature photography workshops at Reynolds
Homestead and has been a Professional
Photographers of America Super Monday instructor.
He is a member of the Professional Photographers
of America ,Virginia Professional Photographers
Association, Southeastern Professional
Photographers Association, North American
Nature Photography Association and National
Association of Photoshop Professionals.
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| Awards |
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| 2005 |
| 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 |
| 2004 |
| Tsunami was accepted to be display at both the Southeastern Professional Photographers Association, . Professional Photographers of America |
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