I have just learned that I was the runner up for AIPP SA Epson Family Photographer of the Year 2010. To say that I am thrilled and excited doesn’t really cover it. I am also quite astonished to have done so well, as a fairly new photographer competing against a very strong field of wonderful photographers that I truly admire. I saw a number of other photographers’ prints in the family competition that literally took my breath away, they were so beautiful.

The AIPP Professional Photography awards are a really challenging competition at both the state and national level and I always learn so much just from sitting and listening to the judges, to say nothing of watching the amazing prints that are entered. This was the first year that the AIPP has offered the Family category at APPA and SAPPA, a change that I was really pleased about. The Family category is exactly right for the work that I enter into competition, but I still hadn’t expected such wonderful results. I feel like I ought to run a competition or give away to celebrate but I haven’t managed to settle on anything yet so that might be a blog post for another day!