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2011 Australian Professional Photography Awards

Adam Cavanagh — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:38:46 +0000

Entering photography awards is a really nerve-wracking experience for me. You shoot a bunch of weddings and then you look through your portfolio for a few images that you think might do well. You get them printed on the right paper… get them printed again because you chose the wrong paper… and get them properly mounted. And send them away to the competition. Well a couple of weeks ago I sent the some images away to get judged in the annual Australian Institute of Professional Photography awards called APPA (Australian Professional Photography Awards) and these awards were just held in Sydney over the weekend.

There were over three thousand entries from some of Australia’s best photographers and each image is carefully judged by a panel of five photographers… and for me… this is the really nerve-wracking part. Your image is presented to the panel of judges… the judges get up out of their seat and look very closely at it…. judging it…. studying it… looking for flaws… do they like it?… do they hate it?… why does that judge frowning so much?… it’s very nerve-wracking!! There may be some debate… and they each give it a score…

Anyway, this year we were in Fiji shooting a wedding while the judging was on… so my nerves were spared lol… although I was still a little nervous about the result.

Well we came away with a really good result which we are over-the-moon about!!!

1 x Silver with Distinction Award (Wedding Open)

2 x Silver Awards (Wedding Open)

Silver with Distinction:

Silver:

NSW AIPP Awards 2011

Adam Cavanagh — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:27:43 +0000

Spent the day watching the judging of the NSW AIPP Photography Awards 2011, and I’m happy to say that we came away with three Silver Awards and one Silver with Distinction Award, all in the wedding category. So it was a wonderful day!

I’ll post the images of the winning prints after the National Awards are complete.

2010 International Aperture Awards

Adam Cavanagh — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:56:18 +0000

A while back, I entered a few images into the 2010 International Aperture Awards, wedding category, and I was lucky enough to get three silvers and one bronze award. Some amazing work was entered from ninety one countries worldwide. And over a thousand photographers entered the competition, so it feels great to have done so well and to have our work up there with the best. Entering these competitions really makes you want to continually improve your craft and grow as an artist.

The first three images below won Silver Awards and the last image won a Bronze

WPPI Accolade of Excellence

Adam Cavanagh — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:10:15 +0000

I am very happy to announce that we recently won another award with one of our favorite images.

We entered a photo from Madeline & Rob’s Wedding into the “2010 WPPI 1st Half International Photography Competition” in the USA and we were lucky enough to score an Accolade of Excellence Award for it. The photo was taken at Doltone House in Pyrmont. For those of you interested on how we shot it using our EF 16-35mm lens, f2.8 @ 1/80 sec with 3200 iso. And we used a video light to light them up.

Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA)

Adam Cavanagh — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:32:26 +0000

The Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) held it’s annual Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA) in Melbourne this year. This is a great opportunity for professional photographers to have their work critiqued by a panel of judges. And for us, its a great motivation to keep evolving and improving our work each year. More than 2600 images were entered into the awards this year over various categories. And we were lucky enough to do very well this year with three awards in the Wedding Category. The first image got a Silver with Distinction Award, and the following two images received a Silver Award.

And a big thanks to our wonderful couples!!!