Competition Success

If you have read my earlier posts you would know I intend to enter more competitions and hopefully get a gold this year in the international monthly competition, run by the SWPP.

I entered in January and have just found out that I have been awarded a gold for this image in the Fashion category:

Link to the posting: click here 

I was also awarded a bronze in the glamour category for this image:

 

Link to the posting: click here 

and another bronze for this image in the traditional portrait category:

Link to the posting: click here

I'm so pleased I got the gold and certainly didn't expect to get one this early in the year.

Help-Portrait sessions

Well, we did it.

I organised 2 shoots, the first on the 12th December 2009 (International Help-Portrait day) at St. Davids Community Church, Farringdon, Sunderland, and the second shoot a week later for a project run by WWIN (Wearside Women In Need) - for obvious reasons no further details will be made public about this shoot.

Thanks go to photographers Tom Young, Alan Butler and Maureen Maclaren for helping take the portraits, and to the Beauty Therapy students of City of Sunderland College for doing the hair and make-up. Much appreciated.

Here's a portrait from the first session.

It was touch and go whether I would get this thing going with less than 2 weeks to do it in, but we pulled it off!

Everyone else who I spoke to or emailed in the organisation stages, thanks for your help.