As always the award winning professional photographers in PPETN submitted some amazing photos.  There were numerous submissions and the winners this month were…….

Tied for 1st Place:

1st Place Winner –  Professional Photographer Colby McLemore

1st Place Winner – Professional Photographer Carla Hoskins

2nd Place Winner – Professional Photographer Emily Cardwell

Tied for 3rd place:

3rd Place – Professional Photographer Michael Broyles

3rd Place - Professional Photographer Michael Broyles

3rd Place Winner - Professional Photographer Carla Hoskins

Join us for next month’s monthly print competition and hopefully you’ll see you images here next time!

Knoxville portrait photographer Colby McLemore was awarded Photographer of the Year of the second time for 2011-201 on his birthday, Wednesday Dec. 7th at the PPETN’s Christmas & Awards Banquet. Earlier this fall, he was recognized by Tennessee’s Professional Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year (as well as many other awards) for having the highest combined scores from a panel of 5 professional master photographers. This time Professional Photographers of East Tennessee awarded him the honor for having the highest cumulative number of votes throughout the year form his professional peers. He placed in every monthly, except one, and in one month he received all the awards – 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. He says “Every dog has it’s day; apparently this dog has had more than one. I’m overwhelmingly blessed.”