UW-Stevens Point photographer places first in national contest

Doug Moore, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point photographer and instructor in natural resources, has won first prize in a national photography contest.

Moore’s slide of a blue damselfly placed first in the University Photographer’s Association of America (UPAA) "science" category. Founded in 1961 at a symposium at Harvard University, UPAA today has more than 300 members throughout the United States and Canada. It is the only national organization devoted solely to the support and advancement of the photographic professional working within institutions of higher education.

A member of UPAA for the past 15 years, Moore’s photos have placed in UPAA’s annual slide competition on several occasions. His entries have scored high in the science, portrait, personal vision, news features and campus landscape categories. The damselfly photograph was taken last June 25, at 5:45 a.m, near Glen Lake in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan.

The UPAA recognition is one of many awards that Moore has received over the past few years. In 1998 and 1999, Moore co-produced two slide programs with Marshfield Clinic neurosurgeon Donald Kelman that garnered the "Four Star Award" for best educational presentation by the American Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies.

In 1997, his fall photo of UWSP’s Old Main building was recognized with a first place $500 award by the Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers for outstanding original art. Earlier Moore’s microscope photo of an algae found in the Schmeeckle Reserve was a finalist in the Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition. He was honored as "Photographer of the Year" by the Focal Point Camera Club and accorded honorable mention in the Minnesota Botany International Exposition of Photography.

A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., and a former naturalist at the Chippewa Nature Center in Midland, Mich., Moore has degrees from the University of Michigan and UWSP. In 1984 he was named UWSP’s outstanding natural resources graduate student.

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