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by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Wow how exciting! I have been nominated by the SWPP’s panel of judges for the award of ‘Photographer of The Year’ in the category Wedding Traditional Its always great to have your work judged at the highest standard up against some superb photography by my...
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by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
I was fortunate enough to be given a merit award for two of my photos from the Castle Howard wedding of Xiaolu & Li. There were over 550 entries in the 20×16 print competition and its an honour to be one of the merit winners to be chosen by my peers with...
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by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
I was fortunate enough to be given a merit award for two of my photos from the Castle Howard wedding of Xiaolu & Li. There were over 550 entries in the 20×16 print competition and its an honour to be one of the merit winners to be chosen by my peers with...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We have just returned home from a few days in London attending the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographer’s convention which was held at the Hilton Metropole in London. It was a brilliant event where we were able to meet with fellow photographers from...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We have just returned home from a few days in London attending the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographer’s convention which was held at the Hilton Metropole in London. It was a brilliant event where we were able to meet with fellow photographers from...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
As well as photographing weddings, which we love, we also enjoy exploring other areas of photography. We include a lot of landscapes in our wedding imagery and so photographing landscapes is something that is both fun and useful. We were really pleased to hear last...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Barrie had a number of prints awarded merit awards in the 20″ x 16″ competition at the SWPP Convention last week. The image which performed best is shown below scoring 90 points out of a possible 100. The standard of images this year was the highest we...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards, Portrait photography
Take advantage of our summer kids portrait promotion and we will enter them in the Kodak Portrait Awards 2010 for your chance to win “£1000!. email me barrie@barriedownie.com or give me a call to make a booking 01243 550032. Jack & Amalie came to the studio today...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We were very pleased to learn yesterday that Barrie’s entry in the informal (non-event) album competition at the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) awards has received an Award of Excellence scoring 85%. This competition is entered by the...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Click on the picture to view the complete album. Thanks to Mithril Racing for the use of the Tiger Moth, Ford Mustang and Aston Martin at Goodwood Motor Circuit and airfield.
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
These are images scoring over 80% which go forward to a final judging in London in January. Barrie received Gold awards for three images this month in the categories of Publicity & PR, Monochrome and Contemporary Wedding.
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We had a successful month in the SWPP Monthly image competition with a total of five images being awarded Golds. These are images scoring over 80% which go forward to a final judging in London in January. Bev received Gold awards for two images shot in Venice in April...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Barrie was very pleased to receive 4 Gold awards in the April SWPP competition. These all go forward to the finals judging in London in January 2010.
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We are really excited that Barrie has won two Accolades of Excellence at the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers) convention in Las Vegas, USA in the 20″ x 16″ print competition. This is widely regarded as the best photographic competition anywhere...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We were both awarded a merit in the SWPP 16″ x 20″ print awards judged at the SWPP convention in London this week.“ The judging panel consisted of international judges chaired by Australian photographer David A Williams and including great names such as...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Barrie won two awards in the Fujifilm Envisage awards for November, in fact he was the only winner in November!“ These results go though to the end of year judging and the overall winning photographer and subject of the winning image both win prizes. “ The winning...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
I“ was awarded another merit in the SWPP monthly awards for November scoring 80 for this image taken at a Trash the Dress shoot earlier in the year.“ If you are interested in a shoot like this please do get in touch.
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Both Bev and Barrie were awarded merits by the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers in the Contemporary Wedding section of their monthly competition for October.“ Only 9 images of 146 entered reached the required standard to score 80% or more so to achieve...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
On Monday evening we attended the Master Photographer’s Association“ Annual Awards night for the Wessex Region.“ Barrie received two merit awards for wedding images, second place in a very close portrait section and the overall award for the best Licenciate...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Bev has received an award of merit from the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) in their April awards.“ These are given to images scoring 80 or more and all merit winners go through to a final judging at the end of the year.“ The image shown below...
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by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Our year has got off to a good start with Barrie winning“ another Fujifilm Envisage award of merit for January.“ As in 2006 all winning images will go through to a final judging in early 2008 for the Photographer of the year.“ The winning image was taken at the...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
We have just received news that Barrie has received one of“ only 14“ Fujifilm Awards of Excellence for 2006.“ These awards were selected from over 1,000 images submitted by professional photographers from across the country over the course of 2006.“ Barrie’s...
by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Barrie has been awarded a “Highly Commended” recommendation in the Fujifilm Envisage awards for 2006.“ This is a very well suported and high quality competition lasting the whole of the year and only six photographers received this commendation so it is...
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by Barrie Downie | Photographic Awards
Barrie had a very busy year in 2006 submitting images to various professional contests. He won an amazing five merits from Fujifilm Envisage – the professional arm of Fujifilm UK. These images all go forward to the final judging later this year for the...
