award winning photography

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The final round of the IPPA photographer of the year has just finished. This year, I have managed to achieve 12 gold, 19 silver, and 2 bronze awards. The vast majority of the awards have been for my wedding reportage work, but a few classical wedding images did sneak in there, along with a couple of other, non-wedding related categories. Overall I am quite happy with the results, but also determined to achieve more next year !! Next up are the annual awards, I can enter up to three images for the individual awards, and, at this stage, I have qualified to submit a portfolio selection in both reportage and classical wedding. I have uploaded the gold award images below (will bore you all with the silver at a later stage !!) so feel free to take a look. You can just click on any image for a slightly larger version. Thanks & regards – Kevin

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With holidays, the mad summer season & preparing kids to go back to school I didn’t put as much time as I had wanted into the 3rd submission of the IPPA photographer of the year. This time I only entered 6 images – all in the wedding reportage category. While not overjoyed, I was fairly happy with the results – 2 gold and 4 silver awards. This makes my total for the year – 27 images in total entered – 11 gold, 15 silver and 1 bronze award. Next up is the final submission followed by the big one – the photographer of the year. For the photographer of the year you can enter 3 images for any category, but the images must have attained at least a gold award, and you can also enter a panel of four images. For anyone interested in photography you should check out the IPPA website and have a look at the diamond & gold awards from this quarter – the standard is quite staggering http://www.irishphotographers.com/gallery.php?id=22.

I have uploaded my six submissions below

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The results were issued yesterday from the second round of the IPPA Photographer of the year.  I had promised myself this year to make a special effort when submitting entries, choose the images carefully etc. but unfortunately “real life” caught up with me this month so I had to put in a slightly rushed job of 10 entries. Due to this, I didn’t have high expectations, so I was very happy when awarded 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze award on the night. I was particularly happy to achieve 4 Gold in Wedding Reportage which is my passion. Wedding Reportage can be described as many things – candid, documentary etc. and is essentially the art of storytelling through photography, and lets face it, we all love a good story !!

Images uploaded below & thanks for reading.