Award Winning Wedding Photographer – A Selection of Previous Photography Awards
Over recent years I have entered photography competitions with recognised professional organisations based in the UK and around the world. These are competitions based purely on photographic ability with images judged on their technical merit, lighting, direction, composition, editing and impact, through winning such awards we are demonstrating our ability, skill and knowledge of photography. Below are a selection of my award winning photographs featuring weddings, portraits, landscape, wildlife and open category entries.
2023 Recognition and Awards
In February 2023 – The Guild of Photographers, I was the Winner of Wedding Photographer of the Year at the Guild of Photographers annual awards evening. As well as winning this award for the fifth time, I also won Wedding Image of the year and came second place in the same category, Landscape image of the year of the Year, members choice image of the year and runner up All Round Photographer of the Year.
During January 2023 – The Societies of Photographers, I received Three Gold award upgrades from of The Societies of Photographers end of year review. One in Wedding, one in Travel and one in the category of Bride or Groom alone wedding day.
2022 Professional Achievements
In December 2022 – The Societies of Photographers, I was awarded a Gold in the monochrome category with The Societies of an image taken whilst running a landscape photography workshop on the Isle of Skye featuring the Old Man of Storr just after a misty sunrise.
For October 2022 – The Guild of Photographers, I received a smattering of Bronzes this month in Wildlife, landscape and weddings with photographs of kestrels, a sunrise in Venice and weddings at Hazlewood Castle and also Howsham Hall near York. In September 2022 – The Guild of Photographers, I earned a silver in weddings from Jennifer and Adam’s wedding at Sandburn Hall along with two Bronze awards from Shelby and Geoff’s wedding at the Turnberry joined two silvers and a bronze in Natural world with photographs of Skye, a grey Heron and a Squirrel. The Open category featured a trio of Bronze awards.
Regarding August 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, it was a quiet but successful month with A Gold and a pair of Silvers from the Natural world category. A wildlife image of a pair of Kestrels was awarded Gold whilst two landscapes from the Isle of Skye were awarded Silver.
In July 2022 – The British Institute of professional Photography, I was very pleased to have been awarded the Yorkshire region ‘Overall Photographer of the Year’ as well as category winner for no less than four categories: Wedding, Landscape, Architectural and industrial, and Natural World. During the same month of July 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, I received a pair of Gold awards, Silver and bronzes. A second Gold of the year for weddings along with a Silver and a Bronze, all from weddings at Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire. The second Gold came from a drone photograph of Central London whilst photographs from Snowdonia and Glencoe managed Bronze.
In June 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, I had a quiet month with just Bronze awards from the Guild of Photographers. Three in Weddings featuring two wedding photographs from Hazlewood Castle and one from Rogerthorpe Manor. Natural World and Open categories scored bronzes including an image of a Kestrel attacking a Buzzard, Electricity pylon and a photo form a flooded Lake District.
For May 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, although I didn’t receive any Gold awards I was awarded five silvers, four featuring landscape images in the natural World and Open Category, I also received a fifth silver in weddings from Hazlewood Castle whilst the other images scored respectable Bronzes.
In April 2022 – The Societies of Photographers, I was awarded a Gold in the wedding category for the Societies, very rare and the first to be awarded this year in weddings featuring Amy and Callums’ Manchester wedding day. Additionally, in April 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, I received a pair of Silvers and a Bronze wedding photography award in April with wedding photographs taken at Foxtail barns in Staffordshire, Central London and Hazlewood Castle. A pair of bronzes in natural world were joined by a Silver awarded to a photograph of sunrise at the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye. A trio of Owls scored Bronzes along with a drone photograph of Tower Bridge and a stunning double rainbow near Fort William. Finally a Gold from my favourite castle near Glencoe in Scotland.
In January 2022 – The Societies of Photographers, I achieved a Gold award in the Environmental Awareness Category of the competition for an image of electricity pylons at sunset. Also in January 2022 – The Guild Of Photographers, there was a good start to the year with a Gold in weddings from Amy and Callum’s wedding in Manchester and a pair of Silvers from weddings at Carlton towers and La Petite Chateau. Portraits and equine scored six bronzes whilst in the Natural World category and image from a moody Isle of Skye scored a Gold and photos from London and Glencoe both were awarded.