Category Archives: Awards
No Awards
I can say with certainty that I won’t win any prizes in the 2012 Irish Professional Photographers Association (IPPA) National Photographic Awards. The reason is simple. I didn’t enter. Instead, I was asked to participate in the final judging as … Continue reading
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Life Is What You Make It
Life is funny at times. Not funny ha-ha, but funny odd – though of course it is at times funny ha-ha as well. Two weeks ago, my family and I were involved in a car collision. Nobody was hurt. Our … Continue reading
Happy Faces Day
Saturday was quite a day. Somebody told me I “sucked”. Someone else called me something even worse when I forgot to press the record button on the sound recorder during a video shoot. To be fair, I think the first … Continue reading
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Irish Blog Awards Shortlist – A Thank You To Our Anonymous Benefactor
Anne nominated this blog for the Irish Blog Awards this year. She does the business’ online marketing and sees the awards as valuable way to connect with an audience of writers. Thing is, she nominated the blog In the Business … Continue reading
IPPA National Photographic Awards 2011 – Best Pictorial/Travel Portfolio
I love projects, both short-term and long-term. Short-term for me can be as short as a couple of hours. Long-term about a year. For other documentary photographers, a year is barely scratching the surface. It’s all relative to the individual, … Continue reading
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IPPA National Photographic Awards 2011 – Best Reportage Wedding Portfolio
Last night, I won the Best Reportage Wedding Portfolio prize at the IPPA National Photographic Awards for the third year running. It is an achievement that is still sinking in. Yet, I know I don’t do this on my own. … Continue reading
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Awards And Angel Cake
Our daughter spent the afternoon with Margaret Smith of Umnumnum making cupcakes. She made one for me. Sometimes, I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not just dreaming that she’s my daughter. She enriches my life every day … Continue reading
And Now For Something Completely Different
You need to grow as a photographer. It’s vital. If you don’t you stagnate, and stagnation leads to erm… smelly work. A bit like a stagnant pond. You know what I mean. I’m a people photographer. More specifically, documentary people … Continue reading
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Master Photographer Association Awards 2010
I’m thrilled I won the Overseas Landscape/Travel category at the 2010 Master Photographer Association Awards at the weekend. That wouldn’t make for a very interesting post, though – even if I were to add that the Hilton Metropole at the … Continue reading
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No More “L” Plates
After two aborted attempts over the last 12 months, yesterday I finally got round to putting forward a panel of photographs to gain the IPPA’s Associateship distinction. I’ll tell you this: I didn’t enjoy the process one bit. Mostly because … Continue reading
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