For this Friday Favorites I’m pulling something I haven’t even blogged yet – a wonderful shot taken downtown around the holiday for Bert and Megan.
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Friday Favorites – Top 10 award winning international competition
February 5, 2010 – 9:58 am
Long time readers of the blog might remember last year when I was accepted into two organizations, the WPJA or Wedding Photojournalist Association, and it’s sister organization the AGWPJA or Artisan Guild of theWedding Photojournalist Association.
One of the benefits of being a member of these prestigious organizations is the quarterly photo contest they each run. A variety of categories is selected and hundreds of the top wedding photojournalist professionals around the world enter works conforming to each category. This is not only a great chance to share my work and let it be judged but to then see some of the best images on these types when the winners are announced is always such a great inspiration.
Now for a simple Denver wedding photographer putting my work up against some of the best wedding photojournalists in the world is a tad intimidating. But to have an image selected from amongst such competition would be such a great honor it would be worth the effort.
The AG/WPJA just announced the results of their 2009 4th quarter competition and I’m very pleased to announce that one of my pieces placed in the top 10 for the “Emotions” category.
This image from Joe and Audrey’s wedding at the Phipps Mansion Tennis Pavilion was my entry for the Emotion category. The bride is so full of emotion and while only her and her father know what was said to elicit such emotion, I have no doubt that looking back years from now she’ll remember when she looks at this photo.
It would seem the judges agree with the impact of this photo and it placed 8th in the competition.
Until next time,
Mark
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Friday Favorites – Quiet Moment
January 22, 2010 – 1:04 pm
This shot came from Joe and Audrey’s wedding at Phipps Mansion this last summer. The quiet moment in between some more posed shots captured their intimacy and love wonderfully. Wether the shot be posed or candid – it’s the emotion coming through that for me always makes the shot so special.
Until next time,
Mark
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Friday Favorites and Hello 2010
January 1, 2010 – 11:29 am
First post of 2010, and is it “Two thousand and ten” or “Twenty Ten”. OK, actually since I can count “two thousand” is proper but twenty-ten sounds a lot cooler.
Been a little slow on the blog of late, between holidays, family, and numerous projects in the fire it’s been difficult to keep the regular blog columns up and I’m hoping to change that in the new year. Lots of other big changes in the works, both for me and my business, which is booming from the looks of things so far for 2010.
For today’s Friday Favorite I wanted to share a recent album page instead of just a single image. I think this shows how sometimes those seemingly similar and random shots that individually seem minor come together to tell a bit of the story of a day, in this case a young bride as she is in her dress for the first time on her wedding day.
Until next time,
Mark
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Friday Favorites – The Flower Girls
December 11, 2009 – 6:33 am
During my time as a Colorado wedding photographer I’ve notice that more often than not when all the attention is on young flower girls it can be difficult for them. That’s a lot of pressure and eyes focused on a young child and I well imagine it can be overwhelming from their point of view.
Not so for this pair however. They took to their appointed task with an excited glee I’ve not seen before nor since.
