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“Those are my prizewinners, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.”
There are so many photography competitions these days that it doesn’t mean much to call yourself an ‘award-winning photographer’, but it’s still nice to win something every now and again - if only for the ego boost!
Here are my prizewinning shots (excluding all those in Fusion Art’s April 2020 Artist Spotlight and various photos featured on social media).
Enjoy…
This image won first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video). It was also among the editors' favourites in the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest 2016, won a Gold Award in the August 2017 Monthly Photographic Competition run by the Society of Photographers, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, was twice runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition (here and here), was a finalist in the 2nd ROYGBIV Color Awards, Fusion Art Open Art Exhibition (see video) and their 2nd International Photography Exhibition, and it was Highly Commended in SINWP’s Our Colourful World, Joys of Nature and Bird Photography competitions.
A poster of my jumping penguin also appeared on the inside of Sam's locker in the US teen drama Atypical! How cool is that...?!
This image won the Sunday Times/Audley Travel Big Shot competition in January 2017, won a Gold award in The Societies’ March 2020 Monthly Image Competition (and led to me being shortlisted for Photographer of the Year) won Best of Show in Grey Cube Gallery's Nature exhibition (see video), won the Animal Action category in the Wildlife Worldwide Photography Competition 2019, won first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video), won SINWP's 'In the Wild' Photography Competition, won Picture Frames Express’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, won the March 2020 Daily Competition and Readers' Choice, Guest Editor and Highly Commended awards on ePHOTOzine, won Best of Contest in 35 Awards' Wildlife: Mammals competition, was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, was a finalist in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video), was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 2 August 2017 after being chosen in their Daily Dozen and was among the editors' favourites for Week 10 of their Travel Photographer of the Year competition. It also received nearly 25,000 likes on their Instagram page!
"Timing is everything in photography, and this image is a great example of that. Excellent use of your 300mm lens to capture this moment right here. I love how you composed the image and went with a medium frame and didn't get too close or tight on the bear. There's some nice spacing around the subject and this makes for an excellent wildlife image." Matt Adams - Producer, National Geographic Your Shot
It was also third in the Xposure 2017 Wildlife Photography Competition, commended in Photocrowd's 'The Colour Brown' competition, Highly Commended in Pursue Pictures’ Great Outdoors competition, SINWP's Wonders of Wildlife competition, given an Honourable Mention in Pursue Pictures' The Great Outdoors competition and the 2017 Neutral Density Photography Awards, chosen as an Editors' Pick in the ZEISS Photography Award 2018 and awarded a Mark of Excellence by the judges for the I SHOT IT Wildlife Photo Competition 2017.
"Well it is a well known spot for grizzly fishing but you have timed this perfectly earning a well deserved mark of excellence." Judge's comment
“So this isn't a landscape image, but this image is great! Wildlife photography is tricky: you rattle off a ton of shots, hoping to get a few good ones. This shot was captured at the perfect time, is composed well and is tack sharp, which can be hard to do with animals. It also tells the story of both the bear’s hunt for survival and the fish’s fight for survival.” Judge’s comment
This image won a Gold Award in the Wildlife category of The Societies' Monthly Photographic Competition, won a Special Merit Awards in LightSpaceTime's Animals Art Exhibition, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine and was shortlisted in The Daily Telegraph's Big Picture photography competition.
This image won two user awards on ePHOTOzine and was favourited by one of the editors of National Geographic on the Your Shot website.
This image was one of the five finalists for the month of February in the Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the Year 2021.
This image won the Exodus Travels Monthly Photo Competition in July 2017, a Readers’ Choice award from ePHOTOzine and first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video):
"We know only too well how demanding wildlife photography can be. And whilst there are plenty of decent tiger portraits around, this one is different; this animal is in repose, with the warm, early morning light on her face. The dark background only highlights her catwalk credentials. Top shot, top cat." Paul Goldstein
It also won Gold in the Animal Portrait category of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards.
It was shortlisted for the PhotoX 2018 Art Gemini Prize and exhibited at the Menier Gallery. It was also Highly Commended in the Society of International Wildlife and Nature Photographers' Life on Earth competition and SINWP's Joys of Nature Photography Competition, and it was runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition.
It finished 10th in the photography category of Light, Space & Time's Nature Art Exhibition in 2017.
This image won Best in Show at Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video) and a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine. It was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards and was also runner up in The Daily Telegraph's Big Picture competition in December 2017, won an Honourable Mention in LightSpaceTime’s Animals Art Exhibition in April 2018, was chosen to appear in the Exodus Travels 2018 calendar and made the shortlist for Outdoor Photographer of the Year 2018.
This image was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards.
This image won Best of Show in Grey Cube Gallery's Nature exhibition (see video), first place in Art Room Gallery's 'Nature' competition in March 2018 (see video), was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, finished second in SINWP's 'In the Wild' Photography Competition, was a finalist in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition in January 2018 (see video), was National Geographic's Photo of the Day on 9 October 2017 and received nearly 25,000 likes when it was featured on Instagram! It was also runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition and Outdoor Photography's Reader Gallery.
This shot was Guru’s Top Pick Winner in Up Close With Birds, was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine, won second place in Art Room Gallery’s ‘Animals’ exhibition, was chosen as the first-placed entry of the week in Africa's Photographer of the Year 2018 and received nearly 1,000 likes on Instagram. It was Highly Commended in SINWP’s Joys of Nature, In the Wild and Bird Photography competitions, was a finalist and won an Honourable Mention in the Fusion Art Open Art Exhibition (see video), was a finalist in the 2nd ROYGBIV Color Awards and Fusion Art’s 2nd International Photography Exhibition and won a Special Recognition award in LightSpaceTime’s Animals Art Exhibition. It also appeared as the Opening Shot image in Outdoor Photography and made the shortlist in Outdoor Photographer of the Year 2018.
This image was part of the winning Wildlife Series in the 15th Pollux Awards/The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards and won a Readers’ Choice award on ePHOTOzine.
This image won Shoot the Frame’s May 2020 ‘Shoot the Wild’ competition, was runner-up in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition and among the finalists in the 2nd ROYGBIV Color Awards and The Independent Photographer's 'Colour' Photo Competition., earning over 2,000 likes on Instagram - which was more than the winner! It was also chosen as a finalist in the Fusion Art Open Art Exhibition (see video).
This image won the ePHOTOzine Sky competition in March 2021.
