Calendar of the Year - 2011
GHOSTS wins the International Calendar Competition's "Calendar of the Year" and "Best of Show" Awards:
GHOSTS has received international acclaim by winning several of this year's World and National Calendar Awards. Among these, "GHOSTS of The Great War - 2011" has been named the "Calendar of the Year" for 2011 and was awarded "Best of Show", the top prize of the calendar publishing industry’s premier competition which recognizes the world’s highest quality calendar design and production.

Judging was completed by a panel of industry professionals assembled by the Calendar Marketing Association - the worldwide trade association for the calendar industry. The competition received hundreds of entries from fifteen countries. Winners were selected for the 2011 World and National Calendar awards competition based on criteria which included quality of artwork, photography, design, originality and execution.

GHOSTS’ two entries, photographed by Philip Makanna, also won four awards in the World and National photography categories. Among these awards are the Gold Award in Photography for "GHOSTS of The Great War - 2011" and the Silver Award in Photography for "GHOSTS, A Time Remembered - 2011".

The GHOSTS calendars have been independently published by GHOSTS for 32 consecutive years.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Philip Makanna was honored by The International Society for Aviation Photography when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual ISAP Symposium in San Diego on June 4, 2011

The International Society for Aviation Photography Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes outstanding individuals whose inventiveness and dedication to aviation photography throughout their careers has improved the profession and positively influenced others. Candidates for this award are professionals (living or deceased) in the fields of photography, publishing, aviation, or space technology, whose lifetime careers have had a significant impact on the photography of aviation or space subjects.

Philip Makanna Featured in April 2011 CYCLEWORLD

Makanna's Messages
-Steven L. Thompson

For World War I or II warbird enthusiasts, the annual release of Philip Makanna’s “GHOSTS” large-format calendars is itself a red-letter day because his stunning air-to-air photography is breathtaking in its art....

Phil holds an MFA from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. from Brown University, has survived three crash landings in his career shooting awe-inspiring photos-as-art from B-25s, T-6s and other aircraft, and is a friend I’ve known since 1967. But I didn’t meet him on an airfield; I met him at Vaca Valley Raceway, as it was then known, when he was racing a Norton 750 for the AFM class championship and I was a novice racing a Yamaha 350cc YR-1. By then, Phil had been racing successfully for four years in the AFM and would go on to do so until a crash at Orange County Raceway on the 750 ended his roadracing adventure. Read the full artice here at Cycleworld,com