VPPA Convention 2009

Our state association's annual convention wrapped up this week in Portsmouth. As always, there were good speakers, good friends, and the print competition. I always come back full of ideas, and this year was no different. More to follow on that later. The party Saturday night was a lot of fun, and a great time to hang out with people I don't get to see that often (hopefully all the incriminating pictures of me playing Twister have been destroyed).

I have been working on scoring software for print judging, and a beta version was used this year. It was a very successful test, and I'll be working on making some more improvements. Look for more on that later.

Print competition this year was tough, with the judges focussed on the technical aspects of each image a bit more than last year. I was satisfied with my results: two blue ribbons and one red. Blue ribbons indicate a merit-worthy print scoring 80 or above, and are difficult to achieve. (The average score for all the entered prints was only 79, so a lot of people went home unhappy.) To the right is "Love Completed", one of my blue-ribbon images.

Best,
David