the winning photos of our 2006 Photo Contest
Congratulations to our winners! They have been chosen from hundreds of photos.
Thanks so much to everyone who submitted a photo.
Kitty Loberg, AIS Photo Contest Chair 
Exhibitor: Becky B. Fain, Waynesville, North Carolina
Exhibitor: Tova Johnson, Centerville, South Dakota
Category #2, Irises in the Garden
Winner: "Field of Iris"
Exhibitor: Margie Valenzuela, Oro Valley, Arizona
Runner Up: "Sue Jo"
Exhibitor: Donald Delmez, St. Charles, Missouri
Category #3, Irises with a Person, or People
Winner: "Laughing Ladies" (MaryAnn Holman, Kitty Lack, and Judy Nunn at AIS Convention)
Exhibitor: Lee Whitebay, Ponca City, Oklahoma
Runner Up: "AIS participant, Riley Probst, w/High Chaparral"
Exhibitor: Ruthmary Jackson, Hills, Minnesota
Category #4, Close up of an Iris or Irises
Winner: "Blushing Maiden"
Exhibitor: Sherman J. Sussman, New York, New York
Runner Up: "Red Tessa"
Exhibitor: Terry Aitken, Vancouver, Washington
Category #5, Photos of Events or Shows
Winner: "Mid America Garden, AIS Convention"
Exhibitor: Lowell Baumunk III, Littleton, Colorado
Runner Up: "Cooley's Gardens, AIS Convention"
Exhibitor: Lowell Baumunk III, Littleton, Colorado
Category #6, Photo taken by a Youth
Exhibitor: Aaron P. Skiles, New Mexico
Exhibitor: Aaron P. Skiles, New Mexico
The photos received were judged by three judges; Ellen Gallagher, Editor of The Siberian Iris bulletin from Berlin,
New Hampshire (Region 1); Glenn Corlew, past RVP of Region 14, Emeritus Judge and avid photographer who
resides in Walnut Creek, California, and Kenneth Coleman of Boise, Idaho (Region 11), another avid photographer
who has a website, C. Iris on Pond. Each of our winners are receiving a newer introduced iris from a Region 13 hybridizer and the 1st place winners are receiving an AIS annual membership or extension.
"When Kitty asked me to be one of the three judges for the AIS Photo Contest, I thought that sounds like
fun... sure, be glad to do it. Little did I know how much difficult work it would entail mainly because of the
volume of photos but, more importantly, because of the high quality of the photos. We have a lot of fine
photographers in AIS and they submitted some of their finest work. All in all, it was a heady job and
over 90% (in my estimation) were extraordinarily fine photos. They captured interest, they were
exceedingly well presented and the quality was humbling to this very amateur photographer."
Ellen Gallagher, Berlin, New Hampshire, AIS Region 1
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