Peninsula High School Students Win State Photography Awards  
 
May 27, 2008  
Gay Johnson  
   
Peninsula High School Junior, Alice Rowson, will be honored in June at a ceremony in Seattle for winning THIRD PLACE in the Animal category of the 2008 State Photography Competition. She will receive a certificate, a ribbon, and the honor of seeing her photograph displayed on the web and in photo exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum. In addition, her photograph will be framed and become part of Peninsula High School’s permanent collection of award-winning photographs. Alice and other PHS students received FINALIST and SELECT ribbons designating their work as among the top six places in their categories. FINALIST and SELECT ribbons also went to Advanced Photo students Junior Daysha Gunther, Sophomore Danielle Dickinson, Senior Joey Winchester and former Photo 1 student Travis King. Students who received SELECT ribbons were in the top 7-25 in their categories. These include, again, Alice Rowson, Advanced Photo students Sophomore Libby Williamson, Senior Heidi Skaggs, Sophomore Savannah Kraft and Photo 1 students Senior Charlotte Janz, Junior and Photo Club President Nathan Iversen, sophomore Daniel Doscher, senior Thomas Lamphere, sophomore MacKenzie Feyedelem and two SELECT ribbons for sophomore Amy Bloch. Our students won this recognition in a field of 3,776 entries from forty-seven schools from around the state. The contest was sponsored this year by Kenmore Camera, Museum Quality Framing, Jones Soda, Canon, Frame Center, Photography Center Northwest, tuttabella, Nielsen Bainbridge.