What happens when you sort through the thousands, and I mean tens of thousands of images that you’ve shot in the previous year, select the few babies that you want to share with the world, and submit them to an international photography competition among some of the most amazing wedding photographers from around the world? If you’re very lucky you get a nod for one or two of your images.
So then what happens when your images place Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Tenth in one of these competitions? You hit your head on the ceiling from jumping out of your seat, your heart jumps into your throat, you try not to hold your hand to your mouth like you just won the Miss America pagent and you keep that ‘I just pray for world peace speech’ in your pocket.
It is just a photo competition after all.
The International Society for Professional Wedding Photographers holds quarterly photography competitions for their members from over 30 countries around the world. The photographers are accepted into the society based on portfolio review, and references from other photography professionals so membership in itself is an honor. I’m thrilled to announce that in the latest quarterly competition six of my images placed in the top ten in their respective categories placing me 12th among all ISPWP photographers worldwide.
Many many thanks to all my couples who have again trusted me to document their wedding day in the past year. Without their faith and trust in my photography I wouldn’t have a single image to submit to be considered for the competition.
Check out the images below!
I’m thrilled to announce that three of my images from 2008 were placed in the top twenty of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) year end competition. The process is a difficult one, starting by going through the tens of thousands of images I shot throughout the year and narrowing those down to my favorite 20 – 30 images. At best one image from each wedding could make the cut for the competition; less than 1% of the images I shoot in a year will end up making the cut to even be considered among the year end images. When you multiply that out over five thousand photographers from 87 Countries world-wide it’s humbling to have a single image selected let alone three.
A huge thank you to all the couples that entrusted me with their wedding images in 2008. Without the belief that I could faithfully document your day, there wouldn’t even be the 1% of images to submit.
And the hits just keep on coming! This has been an incredible week for me and just before I head out the door for a truly inspirational week at WPPI I received notice from the Wedding Wire that I recieved the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award! Check out the announcement and badge below:
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I’m super excited because I just found out one of my ‘Angel’ photographs from the Chrome Salon shoot was selected to be featured at the Canvas Complete booth in Las Vegas! This will be my third year going to WPPI, but my first having any of my images on display. It’s an incredible honor and I can’t wait to see which image they selected. If you check out Chrome salon, you’ll see a few of the images from the shoots I did with Rudy. We got some really incredible images thanks in large part to Rudy and Nicole Palermo’s awesome work. I chose a couple Angel photos because of how unique I think they are. I was excited to get back out to Vegas again, but now I’m totally pumped to get there, see everyone and check out how the ‘Angel’ looks.
Oh! Did I mention it’s getting printed as a 24×36? She’ll be coming home with me after the convention! Check out the images below. I’ll definitely post which one was selected as soon as I find out.
Special thanks again to Rudy of Chrome Salon for asking me to do this project with him, and of course Nicole Palermo for stepping outside the box and going with the white on white look I imagined, then kicking it up a notch! BAM!
I’m thrilled to have my photography included for the fourth year in a row in Baltimore Bride Magazine! Alicia and Jeremiah’s wedding was selected as a featured wedding and marks the third of my weddings to be published by Baltimore Bride. Even though I’m now located in San Diego, I still travel back to Maryland to shoot weddings, and visit family and friends, so this is a thrill to have another wedding featured in my old hometown. Check out the magazine spread below, and keep on the lookout for featured images in San Diego area magazines!
Alicia and Jeremiah's wedding at the Evergreen House in Baltimore
by Evan Bishop
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