Congratulations to Diana Vader for winning Portrait & Illustrative Photographer of the Year and Michael Sauer for Commercial Photographer of the Year for 2011. Both Diana and Michael received their awards during January’s Installation & Awards Banquet meeting at Tapa’s restaurant in downtown Redding, January 19th. Photographer of the Year awards are given to the PPNV professional member that has entered a minimum of 5 entries in print competition, in a specific competition category, during the previous calendar year. The average total score of those members that have entered at least 5 prints in one of the Portrait, Wedding, Commercial or Illustrative categories is compared to other entrants in the same category to determine Photographer of the Year awards for that category. In 2011, the Wedding category did not have any entrants with the minimum number of prints and was therefore not awarded.