Please take note of a needed public correction from R. Dodge Woodson and the World Photographers Organization pertaining to Ms. Margo Pinkerton.

Please take note of a needed public correction from R. Dodge Woodson and the World Photographers Organization pertaining to Ms. Margo Pinkerton.
During a recent posting for photographers who might be interested in contributing their work to World Images Today a clash occurred.
Before explaining further, I want to go on the record with the following statement:
I have researched Ms. Pinkerton’s professional standing and work. Without a doubt, she is a very accomplished individual who deserves full respect. Respect that I did not give her when I should have. I sincerely wish I had contacted Ms. Pinkerton directly to discuss our differences, but I did not. This is a very rare action from me, and I want to go on the record as saying that from everything I have seen pertaining to Ms. Pinkerton, she is a strong role model and an accomplished professional within the field of photography.
Now, back to the disagreement that resulted in unfortunate results.
I was reading a post placed by Margo Pinkerton, the President of ASMP, North Carolina.
In her post, Ms. Pinkerton made a comment pertaining to a previous statement that I had made to someone else in a post as being false. I took great offense at this and responded in a disrespectful manner.
A post showing directly in line with Ms. Pinkerton’s post was derogatory to the World Photographers Organization (WPO). It contained a particular word from a poster who WAS NOT Ms. Pinkerton.
Since this event occurred. Ms. Pinkerton and I have exchanged emails in a polite, professional manner.
Ms. Pinkerton’s comments were what I would consider a common reaction. However, I have been personally involved in situations that would prove out my words in a post that Ms. Pinkerton was responding to. Simply put, I overreacted.
In haste, I responded publicly when I should have attempted to contact the posters individually. I did not do this, and I do regret any trouble that my words may have caused Ms. Pinkerton. Her comment pertaining to me and what I had said in an earlier post was a fair statement, it just didn’t happen to be consistent with actual events that I have been personally involved in.
When I wrote a WPO blog heading I used a word that Ms. Pinkerton did not use. I then pasted in Ms. Pinkerton’s words as they had been copied only from her post. I was responding to a post that said what it said and that I took personal offense to.
I want to stress that Ms. Pinkerton NEVER used the word in her post that I used in my heading.
Margo, please accept my apology for acting too quickly with public words when this encounter would have been much better settled with personal communication.
R. Dodge Woodson
World Photographers Organization