I was delighted and very honoured to hear today that I’d scooped up two Gold Awards in the SWPP’s latest monthly competition for October.
The SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Professionals) runs a national competion each month over a range of different categories. The Gold Award winning images will go forward to the SWPP’s Annual competition to be held at their Convention in London during January.
I was particularly delighted to note that one of the Gold’s was in the category for Wedding Photojournalism which is my chosen discipline of wedding photography.
According to the SWPP’s judging criteria, images awarded Gold are deemed to be “images of the highest standard”. The images are also showcased in the Society’s monthly magazine, Professional Imagemaker.
The Wedding Photojournalism image was from Dean and Nina’s recent wedding and is entitled “Three Layers of Love”.
The other winning Gold image was for some personal work of mine and this was in the Travel Category.
Both images are particular favourites of mine so it was great to see that the judges agreed.
I also won a further two silver awards in the portrait categories and another silver for my landscape work.
So all in all a nice way to start the weekend!
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Gina - Congratulations on winning your awards, that is fantastic. The first image really gets me – great perspective and wonderful moment and the title is perfect too!
Caroline Alexander - Fantastic, congratulations Alan, I love that wedding photo, one of my favourites!
Phillip Allen - Absolutely fantastic Alan; congratulations! This is a thoroughly well deserved accolade and testament to the fact that your work as a photographer is of the highest order. “Three Layers of Love” is utterly sublime!
Shyann - Great job!! I really love the first image, how perfect! And the second one makes me want to go somewhere… anywhere!! :) Congrats
Shari DeAngelo - Awesome, Alan! Both of these images are great… That first one really grabs at my heart… wow! Congratulations on a well deserved win!
William Massey - Congrats! Fantastic photos!
Kyle - That first image is KILLER. So glad you were recognized for it!
Razvan - Congratulations, Alan! Beautiful pictures.
Cliff - Congratulations Alan! Three layers of love is such a great shot… I dig the textures on the luggage as well.. really depicts life as a traveller !
Monika Szczepaniak - Congratulations!
I saw those photos and particularly like the second one. Well done!
And the winner is......Details, Details, Details | Scottish Wedding Photography from Alan Hutchison - [...] previously won this award a couple of years ago for one of my travel images (which also scooped a Gold award at the SWPP a few months back), but I could only muster a “Commended” award last year, so I was determined to try [...]
James - NYC Wedding Photographers - Such great photographs! Congratulations.