Awards
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The BPE Associateship
The National Exhibitions which are members of the BPE (British Photographic Exhibitions) offer a Crown award system to reward photographers for success in having works accepted for national exhibitions. Up to and including the 5 crown award, a photographer must have a minimum of 300 accepted works in member exhibitions. Those achieving the 5 Crown Award are then invited to move on to the Associateship Award, which requires a minimum of a further 100 acceptances in members exhibitions plus twenty national awards using at least 10 different pieces of work, all to be gained after achieving the 5 Crown Award. I was very pleased to be awarded the Associateship in…
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Guernsey Milk Can
It’s not often I photograph an award, but the Guernsey Milk Can award is something just a bit out of the ordinary – in fact it’s rather special! The Guernsey Milk Can is unique to Guernsey and has been made there by local craftsmen for over 1000 years, pre-dating the Norman Conquest and was in use until the first half of the 20th century. It is said to have been brought to the island with cattle from Normandy about 980 AD. The shape of the can prevents too much spillage of the milk in transit and the can is made from copper. Each year, the salon judge awards a small…
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Shrewsbury Exhibition
Delighted with my results from the Shrewsbury Exhibition, where I received nine acceptances (surprisingly, including two in the Landscape section) and two awards. Even more pleased with the score of 14 for my newest image “The Proposal” (below). The couple was spotted in the Royal Mile at the Edinburgh Festival, promoting their show. Although they were holding bunches of leaflets, I managed to hide those from the shot and the young couple were happy to create this pose for me (hope nobody else got it!!!). The moorland background completed the scene. Many of my current batch of images have a sort of “Wuthering Heights” theme, influenced by living in Saddleworth…
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Great Barr
Awarded photos in the Great Barr Salon of Photography 2012, one in the monochrome projected images section and four in creative projected images. The Joker: was awarded a second place Leda and the Swan: Colin Harrison’s award The others had commended certificates
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Edinburgh Salon
Edinburgh Photographic Society hold a prestigious international open exhibition each year and this year is their 150th!!! To mark this, they have struck a special commemorative medal and everyone who has a print accepted will receive one. Rumour has it that only 7.9% of prints entered were accepted this year. I was very pleased to hear that my print “Gerbera” was included and also was awarded a PAGB Gold Medal by exhibition selector Gabriel O’Shaughnessy. I was very excited at the news and I very much hope to go to the exhibition and see the prints at first hand. The irony is that Gerbera was my last-minute choice…an image that…
