As my prints seem to do better than my digital images in exhibitions I decided to follow the example and advice of my fellow FIAP distinction traveller Ciaran Whyte and enter some print exhibitions. With another member of my camera club I carefully wrapped up all the prints in a package ready to send off to the Luxembourg Salon.
Return postage is often included in the entry fee, and this was the case with this exhibition. However there was a surcharge if the package weighed over 1Kg, while it didn’t before it was all wrapped up, it weighed slightly over when it was all packaged up. Now the rules clearly state that your images will not be judged OR returned if you don’t include sufficient postage, so I had to email the organisers and tell them I would send the postage surchage in a separate envelope as I was not going to unwrap the package. So not off to the best of starts.
However it all had a happy ending when earlier this week I was notified that I had 4 accepted images, including the PSA Gold Medal for the colour section, as well as a FIAP Ribbon in the same section.
The PSA Gold Medal was for Simply Red with the amazing Holly. This image has now won 4 medals in as many months and is by far my most successful image. I make no apologies for reproducing it again on my blog. I look at it many times a day as it is hung above the stairs in my house. It never really reproduces as well on screen as it does printed on the Torchon textured paper I use, where the tones are really so delicate.
The FIAP Ribbon which is still a super achievement was awarded to Jump with the equally amazing Raphaella.
The roll call of amazing models continues with Beauty Revealed with Iveta.
And finally a landscape Path To The Mill, but who knows I may shoot a nude there someday ;)
So a relatively short and sweet post. A big thank you to the three models concerned, and in the words of Holly – Yay :D
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Congrats Tim