Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Kumar on August 24, 2009, 05:13:27 pm
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Hey guys,
I won an honorable mention in the Pro Landscape category in the 2009 International Photography Awards competition for my entry "Shodoshima".
The other images in the series are here:
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...;code=Landscape (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-3420-09&count=4&code=Landscape)
Do we have any other winners here?
Kumar
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Hey guys,
I won an honorable mention in the Pro Landscape category in the 2009 International Photography Awards competition for my entry "Shodoshima".
The other images in the series are here:
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...;code=Landscape (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-3420-09&count=4&code=Landscape)
Do we have any other winners here?
Kumar
thats a nice one ... congrats.
and here is another photographer from the mf forum:
its : tho_mas
1. price in architecture non-pro
http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Galler...de=Architecture (http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-1874-09&uid=51421&code=Architecture)
absolute great shots i.m.o....
congratulations. well deserved ....
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Beautiful work, both Kumar and tho_mas. Congratulations!
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Rainer, thanks a lot for the compliment!
And thanks to you as well, Eric.
Kumar: Congratulations!
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Congratulations to both of you, well done.
Thierry
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Good going and thanks, Thomas.
Rainer, Eric and Thierry,
Thank you very much!
Kumar
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I saw the link and I noticed that in the Bridge Category, one is not really a bridge. It's the new CCTV tower. It's an office with a connecting thingy.
Well... I guess you can also call it a bridge in a way.
Congrats to the winners!
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Well done, Kumar! Was that an IR shot on the BetterLight?
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Well done, Kumar! Was that an IR shot on the BetterLight?
Thanks, Jason. Yes, all the images were shot as IR on the Betterlight, and then converted to BW.
Kumar
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I received 2 Honorable Mentions, one in Lifestyle and the other one in the Wedding category (Non-Pro).
Congrats to everyone!
harald benz
almost forgot, here are the links:
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...;code=Lifestyle (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-12406-09&uid=&code=Lifestyle)
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...mp;code=Wedding (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-12414-09&uid=&code=Wedding)
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Hey!
I have three honorable mentions:
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...=Self-Promotion (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11981-09&uid=&code=Self-Promotion)
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...mp;code=Wedding (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11982-09&uid=&code=Wedding)
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...mp;code=Wedding (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11984-09&uid=&code=Wedding)
looking forward for the next year, to get out of the "mentions" list
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Hey!
I have three honorable mentions:
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...=Self-Promotion (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11981-09&uid=&code=Self-Promotion)
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...mp;code=Wedding (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11982-09&uid=&code=Wedding)
http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zo...mp;code=Wedding (http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-11984-09&uid=&code=Wedding)
looking forward for the next year, to get out of the "mentions" list
Congrats!!!!!!!!!
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Just checked out Better Light. Wow, very cool.
(Now I do feel very inadequate, because I only used my M8.)
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Guys,
I do not want to spoil your fun but I think that is better to be informed than taken by IPA.
Every entry at 2009 IPA received an email that it has advanced to second round of judging
Congratulations. Your entry ... has passed through the first of three rounds in the
jurying process and is now an Official Selection of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
If your entry passes through the second round, it becomes an Honorable Mention and is eligible
to compete for the third and final round to determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners in
each subcategory. The overall cateogory finalists go on to compete for cash prizes and Lucie
statuettes at the forthcoming Lucie Awards.
Additionally every entry, surprise, surprise became honorable mention
Congratulations. Your entry has advanced through the second round and is now in the third and final round of the jurying process. Your entry is now an official Honorable Mention of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
In addition, your entry is now competing for a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place title. All winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 18th.
Congratulations again. Stay Tuned and thank you for participating in the 2009 International Photography Awards.
First round, second round ... blah , blah, this is insulting if by the end my blank page image ( Accidental Tiff download ) wins a honorable mention as well.
Andre
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That is very misleading of IPA.
I really enjoyed the second link of Wedding images you took JANISR, and I don't like wedding images. (for reasons of them often not being fresh or original).
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Wow! Very interesting. However I think its about every third entry that wins at least an honorable mention. I got one this year too, and most years that I have entered, but not every image has gotten one. That's funny though if you actually got a blank image through - maybe they liked your "originality" or your pluck?
Guys,
I do not want to spoil your fun but I think that is better to be informed than taken by IPA.
Every entry at 2009 IPA received an email that it has advanced to second round of judging
Congratulations. Your entry ... has passed through the first of three rounds in the
jurying process and is now an Official Selection of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
If your entry passes through the second round, it becomes an Honorable Mention and is eligible
to compete for the third and final round to determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners in
each subcategory. The overall cateogory finalists go on to compete for cash prizes and Lucie
statuettes at the forthcoming Lucie Awards.
Additionally every entry, surprise, surprise became honorable mention
Congratulations. Your entry has advanced through the second round and is now in the third and final round of the jurying process. Your entry is now an official Honorable Mention of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
In addition, your entry is now competing for a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place title. All winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 18th.
Congratulations again. Stay Tuned and thank you for participating in the 2009 International Photography Awards.
First round, second round ... blah , blah, this is insulting if by the end my blank page image ( Accidental Tiff download ) wins a honorable mention as well.
Andre
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Guys,
I do not want to spoil your fun but I think that is better to be informed than taken by IPA.
Every entry at 2009 IPA received an email that it has advanced to second round of judging
Congratulations. Your entry ... has passed through the first of three rounds in the
jurying process and is now an Official Selection of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
If your entry passes through the second round, it becomes an Honorable Mention and is eligible
to compete for the third and final round to determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners in
each subcategory. The overall cateogory finalists go on to compete for cash prizes and Lucie
statuettes at the forthcoming Lucie Awards.
Additionally every entry, surprise, surprise became honorable mention
Congratulations. Your entry has advanced through the second round and is now in the third and final round of the jurying process. Your entry is now an official Honorable Mention of the 2009 International Photography Awards.
In addition, your entry is now competing for a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place title. All winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 18th.
Congratulations again. Stay Tuned and thank you for participating in the 2009 International Photography Awards.
First round, second round ... blah , blah, this is insulting if by the end my blank page image ( Accidental Tiff download ) wins a honorable mention as well.
Andre
They got all the winners and HM recipients up on their website (in the Gallery). Don't think they were the only ones entering.
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They got all the winners and HM recipients up on their website (in the Gallery). Don't think they were the only ones entering.
Sorry, but they were the only ones entering. Try to count the HM?
Andre
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I think there was a similar discussion last year as well, when Rainer Viertlbock and Michael Ezra were prizewinners and Andre had four HM's.
Having a little spare time this morning, I did some checking on the IPA Gallery site. There are a total of 3705 HM's in the Pro section. My entry was in the Landscape Pro category, in which there were 161 HM's. Many entries had HM's in multiple categories. I'd certainly like to know how many entries there were in total, but I seriously doubt all the entries got HM's, or that there were only 3,705 (plus the winners) entries. Considering the promotion the IPA does, and the number of multiple entries (same image in multiple categories, and multiple entries by the same photographer), that sounds unlikely. Would 15/20,000 be a reasonable number? There are obvious flaws in the organization of this competition like the number of categories, overlapping categories, entering the same image in multiple categories and the sheer number of HM's. But people like Ed Kashi, Kiran Master, Tim Griffith, Satyaki Ghosh and Nadav Kander, to mention a few of my favorite photographers, also won HM's this year and have been regular entrants. I guess I'm in good company!
And they have real heavyweights on the jury, so it's always good to get your name out. You never know where a concatenation of circumstances might lead you.
Kumar
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One of my entries made it to round #2 but not further to #3 where it would have become an HM. Which clearly means not everything entered got an HM.
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Sorry, but they were the only ones entering.
no. in another Email they talk about 18.000 submissions from 104 countries. unclear if they are referring to submissions only in the architecture category or the total submissions in all categories.
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Considering the entry fee of each submitted photo and the number of categories in this competition, it seems you make more money ripping off creatives than actually being a creative these days
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Considering the entry fee of each submitted photo and the number of categories in this competition, it seems you make more money ripping off creatives than actually being a creative these days
So true, so true. Feeding from the quivering insecurities and the purient need for positive recognition of photographers is big money in NYC. A partial list of this industry: PDN, technical seminars of all sorts, portfolio reviews, most contests, Jen Bekman, PowerHouse Books, NY Photo Fest, PowerHouse Arena, and the list goes on and on and on. A publisher's catalogue is composed of 99% promo books? Essentially self published? Gallerists who have neither taste nor intellectual weight? Pay to display your photos in a window? Portfolio reviews for several grand? Contest after meaningless contest for empty accolades, at a $50 entry fee per? And people say shooting editorial for free or almost free is akin to kicking puppies. I bet some of those peeps would have no problem shelling out $50 for a chance to be a Hot Shot. Oh, I just vomited a little. Sorry.
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Couldn't agree more!
All the contest are such crap!
They make a fortune off the entry fee's...
Get free content to use as they wish as long as they wish.....
Get advertisers to pay for ad space next to top notch art that they didn't have to pay for....
Why do you think you never see any photographer of note in those ads and the one's that are have been entered by Art Directors, Photo Editors, etc..
If you want a real contest have it free entry and pick the best art.
I was asked recently why I wouldn't have some of my art in there. If they see my work and they would like to put it in, by all means, but I am not paying a nickel other than making a master print to send to them. Especially the whole PDN joke of contest. They laugh all the way to the bank from people entering multiple images.
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I agree.
Remember however that 99.9% of us pay to learn that we suck so we can get over it and start making photography a business and not art.
99.9% of entries but not me I got Honorable Mention again. 3705HM in Pro and over 4000HM in non pro out of 18,000 images entered. OOps ... my one entry had 5 images.
Andre
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So true, so true. Feeding from the quivering insecurities and the purient need for positive recognition of photographers is big money in NYC. A partial list of this industry: PDN, technical seminars of all sorts, portfolio reviews, most contests, Jen Bekman, PowerHouse Books, NY Photo Fest, PowerHouse Arena, and the list goes on and on and on. A publisher's catalogue is composed of 99% promo books? Essentially self published? Gallerists who have neither taste nor intellectual weight? Pay to display your photos in a window? Portfolio reviews for several grand? Contest after meaningless contest for empty accolades, at a $50 entry fee per? And people say shooting editorial for free or almost free is akin to kicking puppies. I bet some of those peeps would have no problem shelling out $50 for a chance to be a Hot Shot. Oh, I just vomited a little. Sorry.
being in the top 3 is helpful, since most people outside the industry don't even know what the IPA is, but they know what 1st 2nd and 3rd mean
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I'm inside the industry, so to speak, and had never heard of IPA until today...I do know Bonni though (she is the only one). Perhaps I am getting older than I thought.
being in the top 3 is helpful, since most people outside the industry don't even know what the IPA is, but they know what 1st 2nd and 3rd mean
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I'm inside the industry, so to speak, and had never heard of IPA until today...I do know Bonni though (she is the only one). Perhaps I am getting older than I thought.
You are not alone. I only heard of it from an assistant sometime last year. Goes to show its relevence.
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I entered this contest award for first time this year [2009], and i never won, just that email of that my submitted photos are chosen or selected to pass first round [finalist] but from this thread it seems that this is doing nothing, so i am not willing to submit in next upcoming contests until i become one of the best photographers or i have masterpiece art works, i can't keep paying for others to win.
Congratulations for all winners and good luck for others!
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In the US my two favorite photography annuals are Communication Arts & American Photography. With CA each year there are about 8000 to 10,000 entries & from that less than 200 will be selected for the annual, there is no 1st, 2nd.....you get to be in the book & for one photographer they will make the cover. With AP about 350 images will make the book & maybe 200 more will be online. No winners again, just to be be in the book is an honor. With more recent contests ( including PDN, IPA, ICA............) there are winners along with prizes. Yes they do make money & if you do well in contests it is still very inexpensive promo/exposure. Well done to anyone who wins.
Denis