WAPPA's! West Australian Professional Photography Awards - The Results....

So, im back in the office after a really full on week up in Perth. Its great to spend so much quality time on networking, business seminars, checking out other art, and getting awesome feedback and tips from other professionals.

I did 'ok' at the awards, averaging a score of 81 for each of my folios. At the nationals that would be considered a Silver, but States are awarded a little differently and you need to get over 85 for a distinction. Just something to strive further for next year!

I think the one i was most disappointed in was the Wedding Album category, where you submit an entire album from a wedding. I LOVE this album. LOVE LOVE LOVE it and I really think it encompasses EVERYTHING about me as a photographer. It shows off my love for people, my love for colour, my love for JOY and HAPPINESS and LAUGHTER and the supreme awesomeness that is the weddings i get to be a part of every year.

So I thought id show it off here....



The 'award' albums were not quite so JOYOUS - still amazing images, but im going to keep showing off my fun, happy, colourful weddings - because i love them!

Check out all the winning images here

WAPPA's! West Australian Professional Photography Awards - The Entries!!

So now they have been Judged, and we know who the winners are (even though at the moment its still 10 days to go, but im writing this in the past so you can read it in the future. I even have a Delorian to help!) I can show you what I entered! At the moment I dont know what the scores are, but that will be a later entry............

Wappa's are slightly different to the National Awards in June, as you deliver a folio of images in each category, 3 images that work, and are judged, as a group.


Wedding

All images must have been taken on a commissioned wedding day. These were from Tom and Brooke's, Lauren and James's and Nicole and Seth's weddings









Portrait - Family

A new category this year, different from the straight Portrait Category, its used to showcase the work we do with our awesome clients. I went with a Parent and Kids theme...








Landscape

These were taken on our Honeymoon in Tasmania Sept/Oct 2008. There is a 2 year limit for entries into APPA's so it was the last time i could showcase them








Illustrative

This is a category for pretty much anything that doesnt fit into the other categories. it can include self commissioned work and Fine Art. Ive been playing with Lomography lately so chose to enter some of those in this category as its totally different, and as far as I know no one has done it before! Im a trend setter hahaa.





And finally, The Wedding Album category, which is a full 40-60 page wedding album layout.

(this is a sample page - its from Lorinda and Warren's wedding)




Stay Tuned to hear the results...crossing every finger and toe i possess......

Tasmania!

Its coming up on JB and mine 2nd Wedding Anniversary - awwwwww i hear you all say. Im so so blessed to have such an amazing fella in my life. He came into it at a time when i had firmly assigned myself the 'Old Maid' title and was about to get the first of the 500 cats I was to acquire in my lifetime. Just in time!! He snuck up on me like a stealth tiger and pounced when i wasn't looking, and then suddenly this guy, who was my best friend, became so much more.

So 27th September 2008, Grand Final Day, and one of the best day's of my life. Ignoring the fact i had a terrible case of the flu, I coughed all the way through our wedding video footage and it rained half the day :) JB had planned a secret Honeymoon getaway to a destination I didnt know until we got to the airport to pick up our boarding passes. TASMANIA!!!!

Its such an UNBELIEVABLY beautiful place. Its green, unspoilt for the most part, small enough to travel from Hobart to Launceston in an afternoon, and the scenery is to die for. Retirement plans unfolded as we travelled....















and the "we took it ourselves" pic :) Dont we look happy ;)

WAPPA's! West Australian Professional Photography Awards

As you read this...im sitting in a little room in Perth, watching the judging of this years WAPPA's. Its a nerve wracking time of year for all the WA professional photogs. We spend weeks looking through the past year's images, hours apon hours perfecting them in photoshop, literally thousands of dollars getting them printed, mounted, and entered... all to be judged by a panel of peers to work out who is the best photographer, with the best images, of the year.

Ive entered in Wedding, Wedding Album, Portrait - Family, Landscape and Illustrative (which is basically anything that doesn't fit into any other category lol)

we have to enter our prints in a dull boring black case kinda like this....


(thankyou Google Images)

But i wish I could enter them in something more like THIS!!!



SO much cuter!

Im a little nervous, so send out sparkly happy thoughts!! Results out next week!

Ashlee and Kurt, Engagement Session

Ashlee is TOO CUTE! She wanted some photos outside the Busselton CWA building, and she really suited it too! Such vintage gorgeousness and awesomeness...







And then we went for a little wander around the streets of Busso.... Its fun finding new places to shoot!





How cute is she?????



and Kurt is just a bit of a Stud :)

(although I have to start singing "Everything's Coming up Kurt" every time i see his name...)







Off down the beach...









I did a little more processing on some of these images than i usually do, just because i was going for a bit of a vintage style, which i think works!

So looking forward to your lovely Country Wedding coming up in November :)

Brooke and Tom, 31st July 2010

Winter Weddings dont get much better than this one!!

Ceremony - Rockingham Foreshore
Locations - Point Peron, Park in Saftey Bay, various other points around Rockingham
Reception - Emma's on The Boardwalk, Rockingham

We arrived at Brooke and Tom's house in Saftey Bay to find everyone ready and waiting and looking FABULOUS!!! I had a few little heart flutters when i saw Brooke's veil and awesome shoes :)









and seriously - is this not the cutest Flower Baby EVER???







Off down the road in the most awesome Red Convertable for a few photos before the ceremony. Its fun doing it like this, means less stress and rushing, and more fun with you loved ones after the ceremony.











We stopped off...outside Liquorland!!!!





and then off to the beach for the ceremony, which was short and sweet and just lovley.









and just on sunset....



What a beautiful day :D

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