Footage from the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009, awards ceremony, October 22, 2009. The works in the Portrait Competition will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, until August 22, 2010. To view images of the works, see http Dave Woody of Fort Collins, Colorado, has received first prize in the National Portrait Gallerys 2009 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. His photograph, titled Laura (shown on right), was chosen as the winner from a field of more than three thousand entries in every visual arts medium. First prize was a cash award of $25000 and a commission from the museum to portray a remarkable living American for the NPG permanent collection. Woodys portrait, as well as works from forty-eight other artists, are on display at the National Portrait Gallery, in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition exhibition on the second floor. Of his work, Woody comments, I am never really attracted to photographing subjects who are totally self-aware or self-confident, as Im more interested in those people who move through this world with a quiet grace. Spending time with friends allows me to see them in a certain light where their mask drops and something soft and inviting is seen, and Ill think of making a photograph of them. Stanley Rayfield of Richmond, Virginia, received second prize for a painting titled Dad, while third place went to Adam Vinson of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania for his oil-on-panel painting titled Dressy ...