For the fourth year in a row, Portland photographer John McAnulty's images have been selected for Oregon State University's annual Art About Agriculture Tour.

This year's tour included two of McAnulty's images, "Palouse Spring Morning" and "Ready for Picking." In addition, "Palouse Spring Morning" was selected for the Dean and Director Award, College of Agricultural Sciences and Oregon Agriculture Experiment Station...

Commercial photographer Doug Walker, of Walker Photography in Olympia, Wash., received a National Merit award from the Professional Photographers of America judges at the Professional Photographers of Washington's Annual Educational Conference and Print Competition. The winning entry can be seen at walkerphoto.com/awards.html.

Adolph Gasser, founder of San Francisco's venerable photography store, Adolph Gasser, Inc., died March 23 at the age of 94.

Gasser was born in San Francisco in 1912 to Swiss and German immigrants, Adolph and Marie Gasser. He began his photographic career as a camera repairman and opened his own repair shop in 1936. In addition to simple repairs, Gasser designed custom parts and worked with optics in still and motion picture equipment. Among his clientele were Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and other...

Lyndie Benson, a photographer who specializes in naturalistic portraiture of children, recently signed a representation and marketing agreement with FogStock, a stock photography agency based in Portland, Ore. Benson, who lives in the Seattle area, studied under Herb Ritts and counts among her credits a portrait of Bill and Hillary Clinton's dog Buddy.

Ramsay de Give, a second-year student at Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura, Calif., received a third-place award in the Picture of the Year International competition, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism, for his photographs of the Southern California wildfires of late 2005.

Camille Licchtenstern, a participant in the Academy of Art University, San Francisco's Saturday Art Experience, has won first place in Artwire.com's Celebrity Deface Off competition. Licchtenstern, a San Francisco resident, reinterpreted Marilyn Monroe's subway grate scene from "The Seven Year Itch" in an image featuring rock celebrity Marilyn Manson.

Frans Lanting has received the 2005 Lennart Nilsson Award, which recognizes pioneers in medical and scientific photography. Lanting, who is based in Santa Cruz, Calif., was honored for his nature photography, examples of which have appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, where he served as photographer-in-residence, and has received numerous awards for his work as a photographer and conservationist.

Earlier this year, Graham Nash and his business partner, printmaker Mac Holbert, were the recipients of the PhotoImaging Manufacturers & Distributors Association Visionary Award. Co-founded in 1989 by Holbert and Nash, Nash Editions is widely regarded as having started a photographic revolution with its invention of digital fine-art printing.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History recently acquired the original Nash Editions Iris 3047 printer, on which the pair began experimenting with...

The Society of American Travel Writers has named Blaine Harrington, of Littleton, Colo., Travel Photographer of the Year for the second year in a row. Harrington's images can be seen at blaineharrington.photoshelter.com.

Two West Coast photographers recently were honored by Nikon in the company's Small World competition, honoring excellence in photography through the microscope.

Charles B. Krebs, of Issaquah, Wash., was awarded first place for his photomicrograph of a common housefly. Second place went to Thomas Deerinck, of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California, San Diego, for his quantum-dot fluorescence image of...