PAPA Innovation Award

PAPA encourages innovation and the development of new ideas within the aerial photography business. This award is presented to the PAPA member for the creation and or invention or innovation for a product or service that benefits the art and business of aerial photography.

Nominations for this award are submitted by individual PAPA members for consideration by the selection committee, made up of past recipients of the PAPA Innovation Award. The announcement of the recipients is made at the PAPA International Annual Conference. The award consists of an engraved plaque. The first innovation awards were bestowed in 2005.

Recipients of the PAPA Innovation Award have included:

Randy Anderson, Metroviews, Sugar Land, TX
Aerial Photo Pro, a unique photo editing software that enables clients to download, view and use their custom aerial photos.

Leo Geis, Idaho Airships, Boise, ID
Online Adobe Photoshop video tutorials and workshops for PAPA members

Chuck Boyle, Boyle Consulting Engineers, Charlotte, NC
InSiteful Imagery, an online system packaging oblique and vertical imagery, along with other planimetric data

Julie Belanger, Pro Aerial Video, Morgan Hill, CA
Proaerialvideo.com, dedicated exclusively to collecting and selling stock aerial video footage

Joe Moilanen, Moitek, Longview, WA
Portable Stabilized Mount for aerial videography

Pat Belanger, 111th Aerial Photography Sqd., Morgan Hill, CA
Tall Cam Aerial Photography Tower and Mobile Studio

Mark Remaley Precision Aerial Photography, Crown Point, IN
Removable Photo Window for the Cessna Cardinal

Joe Moilanen, Moitek, Longview, WA
Stabilized Mount for vertical photography

Jon Hooper, JoeBay, Inc., Port St Joe, FL
Automated Camera Controller software for following track lines

Vern Bartley, Portland, OR
Vertical Photography Strut Mount

John Mooney, Positive Image, Houston, TX
StockAerialPhoto.com an Internet venue for cataloguing, displaying and selling aerial photography

Sibylle Allgaier, Heliphoto, Los Angeles, CA
Adobe Photoshop for the Aerial Photographer, Workshop & Manual for PAPA Members

Steve Boyko, Sky High Enterprises, Blackstone, MA
Basic Adobe Photoshop for the Aerial Photographer, Workshop & Manual for PAPA Members

Arnie Itzkowitz, Aerial Exposures, Kinnelon, NJ
Portable Aerial Video Platform