Master Photography Awards 2011 Category Win
I don’t know quite how to start this blog entry other than to just come out with it
I’ve won the Technical/Scientific Category in the 2011 International Master Photography Awards….
How cool is that 🙂To be honest it’s left me a bit speachless, so I’ll just post some pictures of the night instead.
Thanks to TakeThatPhoto Ltd for the use of the event images taken during the evening’s ceremony and party
Receiving the Award and studio shot during the after party 
Merit Certificate: Creative/Original Image Merit Certificate: Fine Art / Pictoral 
Merit Certificate: Fine Art / Pictoral Category Winner : Scientific / Technical 
Master Photography Awards 2011
Well, it’s that time of the year again and I just received word that 4 pictures I submitted a couple of months ago to the annual International Master Photography Awards have been selected for the awards night.
…… which is nice 😀The images (along with all others selected) will be exhibited by the Master Photographers Association over the next 12 months starting from the evening of the Awards Presentation & Dinner held in Newcastle in October.
Last year I had 1 image get through which achieved a category runner up (not bad for a first outing).
So now I have to wait until a few weeks to see if any of this year’s 4 images get through to the category finals and possibly be the overall 2011 winner.Wish me luck 🙂
Stock Library Launched
It’s been quiet for the last month and in that time I’ve set up my own Stock Resource for images to be licensed from me directly.
Why?
When any photographer, graphic artist or videographer put content on an online agency, they have to hand to the agency 50%-92% of the fees they should have received on each license sold.Not only does this mean that the creator only receives 8-50% of the work’s worth, they also have no say if the agency negociates a lower fee which means you get even less.
Recently iStock made a change to their terms where they said they weren’t able to survive on their current income and so were going to take a higher percentage.
This finally pushed contributers beyond breaking poins and instigated a backlash.
*strong language* : https://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=253522&page=1My stock library is online now (see the menu) … and new items will be added regularly, especially over the next few days
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The Gumball 3000 GRD Built Subaru STi Promotions Car
James Greenwood of Greenwood Racing Developments asked if I could take some pictures of a car that his tuning company built on Saturday just gone.
So I turned up at the GRD‘ workshop and I saw the Gumball 3000 Promotions car sitting in front of me.It turns out GRD built the Stage4 500+bhp Subaru (owned by Andrew Brimecome) that Gumball use for brand promotion
James wanted some pictures of the car for the GRD website, so he passed me the keys and disappeared.Andrew enters the Gumball 3000 in his 1250bhp Viper and lets them use his Subaru whenever they want.
It’s currently lined up to be at a trade show in September and he’s also giving it to them to use in next year’s Gumball. He thinks it may be the Jackass guys, but the celebrity has yet to be selectedAn hour after starting taking shots, Andrew turned up and after chatting for a bit he called some friends so I could do some rolling shots.
These are some of the edited images from the shoot:
