Really pleased to announce that “Moonshine” an ICM image of Brixham Breakwater has been awarded a commendation in this years Landscape Photographer of the Year. The image will now appear in the 12th annual and also at the upcoming exhibition at Waterloo station.
Moonshine - Brixham Breakwater
2017 was a great year for me, but thats mainly down to being inspired by the great images that are posted every week on Twitter, Flickr, FB and Instagram. Viewing these images drives me on and makes me want to improve everyday.
Here are 10 of my favourite 2017 images (in no particular order) from various photographers I follow on the social media platforms.
Images are linked to the artists social media.
Untitled - Jo Stephen
Guggenheim - Giles McGarry
St Pancras multiple exposure - Darren Rose
Desire - Gerald Arzt
The Lonesome Highway no.2 - Christopher Soukup
Winter Wonderland - Dave Fieldhouse
Stream of Time - Jin Mikami
The Birds - Stuart McGlennon
Evolution - Tony Sellen
The Moment of the First Snow - Mikko Lagerstedt
Im pleased to announce that I have won Wex Photographer of the Year for the second year running. It was a very tight contest right up until the final week, when I managed to shortlist and secure the overall win. The exhibition and presentation will this year be held at the new Wex store in London, I'm very much looking forward to meeting everyone and having a few beers!
Below are a few of my favourite images I entered into the competition in 2017.
STILTS - A winner in January
ABYSS DESTRUCTION - A winner in February
ASSASSIN - Unsuccessful April entry
WHITE NOISE - Winner in April
DESCENT - Shortlisted in May
DARK TOWER - Unsuccessful May entry
FIELDS OF GOLD - Unsuccessful entry in June
MOONLIGHT - Shortlisted in June
MONTY - Unsuccessful July entry
FIVE PAST EIGHT - Shortlisted in August
GLOW - Winner in September
SYNTH - Shortlisted in October
SNOWFALL - Winner in November
Im pleased to announce that I have won the 'Your View' category in this years Landscape Photographer of the year. This was way beyond any expectations I had and it's most deftly my proudest achievement to date since starting my photography journey.
The winning shot is probably my favourite image to date 'Stilts', this shot is published in the LPOTY 2017 book for which I have received a signed copy from Charlie Waite. Winning the 'Your View' category also means I have won prize money of £1000 :-)
STILTS - Winner in Your View
I was also lucky enough to have another commended image 'Destruction' in the same category, this shot also features in the book.
DESTRUCTION - Commended in Your View
I went into 2016 with my main goal of progressing and improving my photography. I have owned a DSLR for several years now, but in all honesty I have never really taken photography very seriously before 2015 when I started to become addicted to several genre's of photography including macro and landscape.
In 2016 I found myself concentrating more on landscape, and in particular long exposure mono or muted colour seascapes. Now while I'm happy with my progression in this particular style of photography I still have much to learn and there are many places I want to shoot.
TWISTED - First place WPOTY
TWITTER
in May I decided to re-open my Twitter account as I had heard various people talk about the great community of photographers, that I could hopefully draw inspiration and learn from. Theres no doubt about it there are some wonderful photographers on Twitter, and I will hopefully be doing another blog soon with my top 10 images from Twitter togs. If you are a keen photographer, the best advice I can offer you is get on Twitter and join in the fun!
WEX PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHIER OF THE YEAR
WPOTY is a popular weekly photographic competition run by Wex Photographic on Twitter. Each Monday hundreds of photographers (sometimes up to 400) enter the competition by submitting a shot from the previous week with the hashtag #wexmondays. All these entries are then judged by wex and then they choose a shortlist of 10 from which a top 3 are announced! The top 3 placed entries each week then receive points which contribute to the overall standings in the comp (1st 50pts . 2nd 20pts . 3rd 10pts).
I started WPOTY in May, and to be honest I didn't really believe I could do well having seen the standard of entries on show, my main aim was to get a top three entry before the end of the comp!
Well its safe to say I surpassed my early expectations by some margin, racking up a total of 310pts including 4 winning images and eventually winning the competition. This really was something I didn't believe to be possible to achieve, I still feel like I'm just at the start of my photography journey with so much to learn and improve on.
You can read my Wex interview here: www.wexphotographic.com
EIGHT - First place WPOTY
ABYSS - First place WPOTY
GALACTIC - First place WPOTY
2016 Achievements
Winning WPOTY really did top off a great year for me, here are some of my other achievements I am also very proud of:
WEX PHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - Winner
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - 2 Commended images
MANOR MAGAZINE - 12 page featured photographer (Dreamscapes)
WEX PHOTOGRAPHIC - Article (Long exposure minimalism)
PHOTOGRAPHY WEEKLY - Various publicised images