Paul Wilkinson Photography Blog

Well, it’s been quite a year for us so far – by far and away our busiest and most successful ever – and yesterday was the icing on the cake.

So please forgive me if I blow my own trumpet just for a minute or two. Well, if I don’t, who will?!

Last night was the prestigious British Professional Photography Awards held at the Newcastle Hilton (I am sitting, rather bleary-eyed, typing this out on the train back home – ah, the joys of modern technology!) where hundreds of the best photographers from around the world came together for a ‘glitzy’ – their adjective, not mine – ceremony. Cool. Lots of great photos to look at, nice food, great company (along with an awesome husband and wife photography team, David and Jane Stanbury, we were guests of our album supplier, Spicer Hallfield who supply both our stunning Digital Artbooks and our gorgeous Seldex matted albums) and possibly just a smattering of wine and champagne.

And on top of that, we won three major awards!

The first award is the title of “Parent & Child Portrait Photographer Of The Year”. I’m really excited about this award given that, as you may have noticed from this site, a major proportion of our work is in family portraiture.

We also won the title of the Master Photographers Association “Best Licentiate Panel” for this year. This one is of real personal satisfaction for me. The panel a photographer submits for assessment into the MPA (of which I am now a licentiate member – hence the ‘LMPA’ after my name) is a selection of 20 images of real client work over the past couple of years. For our panel to be recognised with this highest possible accolade shows that the photography our customers can expect from us is consistently of the highest possible standard. Which, I reckon, can only be a good thing!

And, as if that weren’t enough, we also received an “Award of Excellence” (i.e. got down to the best two) in the Classical Portrait category. Not bad for our first attempt at the awards!

So to all of our clients and friends of our business, a huge ‘thank you’ for allowing us to capture gorgeous award-winning images that we absolutely love as much as you do. The esteemed panel of judges seem to agree.

I’ll put my trumpet down now.

Cheers
P.

UK Parent and Child Portrait Photographer of the Year (has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?)

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