Chase Jarvis has joined the Corbis roster of photographers. Images by the Seattle-based action sports photographer have been featured on the covers of Freeskier, Bike and Horizon magazines, as well as in marketing and advertising campaigns.

Mark Hooper, a photographer based in Portland, Ore., recently took third place in the Fourth Polaroid International Photography Awards. Hooper's series of images depict close-ups of a white-gloved magician performing tricks. The images were created with Polaroid's Cross Tone process, which produces chocolate-brown tones with suppressed highlights, similar to old albumen prints.

p>Richard Duval, a photographer based in Bothell, Wash., recently completed a number of projects in the Northwest, including a calendar of Kirkland, Wash., images for Park Place Book Co. in Kirkland. Many of his landscape and scenic images also were used in calendars for Stevenson Communication Engineers in Seattle and Web Ad.Vantage in Baltimore.

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Top awards at the 2003 Pierce County (Wash.) Professional Photographers Association semiannual print competition went to two photographers from Strode-McGowan Studios. Kevin McGowan took Best of Show and Best of Commercial Category for his "Combo Platter," one of a series created for Montezuma Restaurants. His associate, Sharon Holcomb, won in the Best of Restoration category for her "Peek-a-Boo Priest."

The PCPPA also awarded Kazuko Wohlers, of K's Photography, Best of Wedding Category for...

John Valls has completed photographs for Willamette Graystone, an Oregon paving manufacturer. The photographs, which illustrate applications for paving blocks, were created in conjunction with the Ulven Design Group, which is designing marketing brochures for Willamette Graystone.

Judy Horn, of Horn Graphics in Tacoma, Wash., has been selected as a representative on the national Talent Team by Fujifilm USA. In addition, Horn recently earned her Associate Fellow Photographer designation with the Seattle Professional Photographers Association.

Allen Haslinger, the founder of Photosphere.com, has returned as the company's new president. Marketingbytes Strategic Communications has assumed ownership of Photosphere and its royalty-free image site, www.photosphere.com. Photosphere has offices in Blaine, Wash., and North Vancouver, B.C.

The American Dahlia Society's gold medal for first place in the Artistic Division was awarded to Seattle resident Stephanie Shachat, who submitted images taken at a garden in Seattle's Volunteer Park. Shachat's photographs also took the second place, third place and honorable mention medals in the Novice Division.