Delighted to be announced as a finalist in the IPPA / Bank of Ireland Professional Photographer of the year 2017.
These awards are voted on by our peers so it makes them very special and although I have no ideas of winning, it’s fantastic to be involved and included among so many talented craftspersons. See attached for my final panel of images that made the cut and a big thanks to all the couples who put their trust in me to capture their day.
Always great to hear back from another happy couple 🙂
“To Kevin
A huge thank you or being part of our wedding day in April. We are truly delighted with how fabulous the photographs are and how you captured all the precious moments of our day so brilliantly. The photos on this card are some of our favourites. We thank you kindly, it was a pleasure having you involved in our wedding.
Love Eilis & Garrett Kelly.”
Dipped my toe back into competitions this year for the IPPA Photographer of the year. It is always great to get positive & constructive feedback from your peers so I was delighted when 2 of my images received highly commended awards in the first heats for photographer of the year. Also received some great feedback on small changes that could improve the final images. Already looking forward to the next round !!
Its especially nice to get some recognition from your peers, the this end, I have been very fortunate since being awarded my Licentiate with the IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers Association) that many of my images have been awarded numerous crests in our annual competitions. Whereas most of my awards would be in the Wedding Reportage category, I have also received quite a few for Classical Wedding, Bridal Portraiture and also traditional portaits. At both the 2011 and 2012 annual awards I received certificates of excellence for my work and also was a finalist in the prestigious photographer of the year.
See attached slideshow for a small selection of my award winning images which will hopefully be added to over the coming years !!
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
