We stopped entering awards in 2005. That year finished with one of Steven’s pictures making the exhibition and publication of the Swcheppes Portrait awards at the National Portrait Gallery. That was a pretty good achievement. There were over 6,000 entries and the most talented photographers in the world hotly contest the highly prestigious award.
We actually stopped entering because, with the advent of digital photography, entry requirements changed and as we were still shooting film at the time we were not meeting a lot of the requirements. Anyway as we are now fully digital we thought it was time to start entering awards again. We tentatively sent 4 images in to the first round of the Kodak Wedding Photographer of the year awards, Steven has won that before so we thought that would be a good one to start with.
So on Friday afternoon I got a call on my mobile. It was from our friend and most fierce competitor, Steve Yates from Keswick. “Congratulations mate, you’ve got a picture in the final of the Kodaks.” Apparently The MPA put the winning images on their site before they inform the winners. So, and here’s the best bit, there were over 4,000 entries from all over the UK and the judges only select 5 pictures to go forward, we have one and Steve Yates of Derwent Photography got 3 of them. Cumbria nearly sweeps the board.
We want to, publicly congratulate Steve, that is a phenomenal achievement, and Will and Keely, our couple who win a digital camera from Kodak and go forward to the final with the potential of winning themselves £1000. The next round of judging is in September and we will be entering a lot more with the intention of getting more through than Steve this time.
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