Wow! After a very tiring week, I am finally back home again.

I took my wife Danah with me to Wellington to view the print judging and attend the conference held at The Intercontinental.

I have attended the print judging for 4 years now as it is a wonderful learning experience listening to the judges talk about what they like and don't like about the entries. I was honoured to be asked to judge this year for the first time and had an awesome time.

I didn't do as well as I would have liked to with my entries. (Unfortunately, judges don't get to judge their own images.)

In the Wedding category, I ended up getting a Silver with Distinction, a Silver, and two Bronzes. There was only one Gold given out in the wedding category this year.

Here are the entries I put in for the Wedding category

This got an 87

This got an 80

This got a 73

This got a 72

 

Needless to say, the judging was pretty hard this year.

 

From a total of 1205 entries there were only 18 Golds given out.

On the bright side of things I got a Gold in the Landscape category for this image

I got a 92 for this image

A 73 for this one

And a 72 for this.

 

You can go to the NZIPP website www.nzipp.org.nz and look under Iris Awards 2009 to see all the winning photos.

 

At the end of the day, it was a fantastic week, catching up with colleagues and old friends that I only get to see once a year, looking at what everyone is is doing, getting inspired to do it all over again next year. Hopefully, with better results.

 

Cheers

Steve Sharp

Wedding Photographer