Help-Portrait

Visit Help-Portrait

If you have never heard of Help-Portrait before, then please have a look at their website.

Basically, it's about phototographers taking portraits of people that are disadvantaged in your own area, at no cost to them. It is all happening on Sat 12/12/2009 simultaneously around the world. It only started a month ago and allready there are groups in 55 countries taking part. There wasn't a group for Sunderland, so I have arranged one.

I will be at St. David's community church in Farringdon from 10.00am. There are other photographers attending from my college course (Applied Photography) run by City of Sunderland College. Also attending will be some of the students from the same college's Beauty Therapy Department, who will be on hand during the day to give mini-makeovers to anybody that wants one.  Feel free to drop in.

Competition Success

The SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers), of which I am a member of, (click here), have a monthly photographic competition which is open to members worldwide. Images are rated gold, silver, bronze or unclassified (not up to the standard of a competition entry).

In Novembers competition I entered a few images. I have been awarded a silver and a bronze. I'll be trying for a gold in 2010! The gold winners are published in Professional Imagemaker, the bi-monthly SWPP magazine. At the end of the year they are judged at the Annual convention where a winner for each category is announced. These then become the image of the year for each category. Something to aim for I think.
My silver was awarded in the Glamour and Beauty category for this image:
 

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My bronze was awarded in the Portraiture Environmental category for this image:

Link to the posting: click here

Previously, I have only entered once before, way back at the beginning of the year, when I was awarded a bronze for this image:

And a bronze for this image: