It was that time of the year again, time for the big one, the Australian Professional Photography Awards - APPA.

Weeks of debating which images to enter in what category, how to print it, how to present it etc and the final rush to get the images printed and matted all came together at the APPA's.

In the end I entered 4 images under the Wedding Open category. Rather than going for traditional images I submitted the kind of images that I love capturing, quirky, unusual, different and hopefully memorable.

In the end I was awarded with 3 silver awards.

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and a closer look at the images.

First from Maria & Will's wedding - pompoms

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From Amelia & Luke's wedding

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and this one from Caroline & Ben's awesome hora dance

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Congrats to all the category winners and a huge thanks to all the judges and everyone who worked so hard to make the APPAs run smoothly. You know how you are :)

 

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Kate and I have both been members of the AIPP for some time now. We are proud to me members as well as being on the council of NSW.

So it was even more special when we entered the NSW AIPP awards this year and took home some awards.

Kate's passion has always been photographing families. So when the AIPP introduced the 'Family' category for the first time in NSW Kate was determined to enter and do well. 

So it was awesome when Kate was announced as the NSW AIPP FAMILY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2011. I was so proud of her to have been recognized for something she is so passionate about.

 

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I focused on the wedding category and for the first time entered into the wedding album category.

I was stoked to receive a silver awards for one of my wedding images and another silver award for one of my wedding albums.

The wedding album I entered is one of our regular sample albums from the studio. 

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Right now we are still pretty excited but already looking forward to the National AIPP awards.

 

Here is a link to all the category winners of this years EPSON NSW AIPP AWARDS

 

-Chris 

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One the second day of the workshop we focused more on portraits. Justin, another photographer in Newcastle and his family were fantastic models for me. I could not get over how patient his kids were, with 15 people trailing after them with cameras :)   

Photographers are notorious for not having photos of our own families, so it was fantastic to be able to capture these images for them. 

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I have just returned from 2 days in Newcastle, teaching at the AIPP Roadshow with Daniel from Pixel Purity and Steve from CHP Image Studio, who was also our incredible host. We covered both wedding & portrait photography, from shooting to photoshop to sales. I had a blast meeting such a great group of people.

On the first day Steve talked about shooting for a wedding. I couldn't help myself from capturing some images from a few different angles.

Kate

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We have been voted as one of Australia's Top 10 Wedding Photographers by Capture magazine!

This is really exciting since this was not some random competition. Only photographers who were also nominated were able to vote for each other. One vote each and no voting for one self.

Being voted by our colleagues is very humbling and gratifying.

Thanks everyone!

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