SWPP award winners, Feb 2008

I don’t enter these competitions very often… truth be told, I find the actual process of entering quite laborious and time consuming, so I don’t enter as often as I probably should.

Anyway with that said, I did find myself with a quiet afternoon one day last month and decided to go completely mad and enter a whole bunch into the February competition for SWPP members’ pictures. Karen keeps pestering – oops, suggesting to me I should make more effort for this sort of thing and I know she’s right really – so in a major effort for a quiet life I humbly did as I was told…

So anyway, all in all I entered a single image into each of a total of 15 different categories, to see what would happen. The results? 7 Bronze Awards, 4 Silver Awards, and a Gold.

Not a bad showing, I’d say 🙂

Here’s the award winning images along with their category and the result each one acheived. Some, you will have seen before – I hope you enjoy them.

1. Gold award: Environmental portraiture

2. Silver award: Wedding, traditional

3. Bronze award:Contemporary portraiture

4. Bronze award: Wedding, contemporary

5. Silver award: Portraiture,traditional

6. Bronze award: Sports

7. Silver award: Fine Art

8. Bronze award: Pets

9. Bronze award: Science and Nature

10. Bronze award: monochrome

11. Silver award: Pictorial

12. Bronze award: Landscape

Well, that’s it. As I said, that’s not a bad showing in my opinion – competition is very stiff with international photographers from many countries taking part each month, many producing some really outstanding works of art and deserving every recognition they get – so it’s great to find my work holding it’s own against others with such a wealth of talent.

I’ll try to make some effort again next month – but don’t go expecting such a big bunch going in any time soon!

Your comments are welcomed of course.

Rob.