Finalist in the World Photographic Cup

[Enda Cavanagh]

I got some great news recently. I was a finalist in the 2014 World Photographic Cup, which is an international photography competition for photographers from the Federation of European Photographers (FEP) and Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

The World Photographic Cup is the first ever photography competition launched globally, with national photographic teams from America and Europe and from Asia to Australia. Its successful first round of submissions confirmed the WPC as a vehicle to universally share photographic style, encourage image excellence and create friendships across all diverse cultural environments.

22 national teams accepted the international opportunity to showcase their best in this Inaugural World Photographic Cup! Entries far exceeded the expectations of the organizing bodies (the FEP, Federation of European Photographers and PPA, Professional Photographers of America).  

The WPC governing committee co-ordinated the judging process for all 400 pictures submitted. Images were judged by an international panel made up of 15 renowned professional photographers from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Portugal and USA! Judges were selected based on their photographic technique, experience, and previous training as a photographic judge. The scoring procedure was totally at random and in complete anonymity. The score for each image was based on four principles: Impact, Creativity, Technical Excellence and Composition. Each of these contributed to a maximum of 25% of the total score.

The photo was part of my exhibition Duality. You can read more about the exhibition here.

This is the image, titled "Radiating Beams, Blackrock Baths at Sunrise" and it was a finalist in the landscape category.

[James Griffin]

Fantastic well done. Great for Irish photography too ;-)
I love this shot and as far as i know that building has been demolished now.

[MartinSpence]

Well done - great image..

[Enda Cavanagh]

Fantastic well done. Great for Irish photography too ;-)
I love this shot and as far as i know that building has been demolished now.

Thanks James. Would you believe it was demolished about a week before the launch of the exhibition. Another subject -an old rust water levee bar,  in one of the other Duality images broke off shortly after that. I'm secretly destroying all the subject matter in my images in the vain  attempt of increasing their value.

[Pete Berry]

Congratulations, an extraordinary image!

But I had to go to the Copper House Gallery's slightly smaller image without that bloody awful bulls-eye mark to fully appreciate it - along with the other images in the series.

Pete

[slothead]

Now THAT is a watermark! (Although at first I thought it was a Target ad.)  It must be a gigantic image as long as it took to load, but nevertheless a very good image - well composed and exposed.

[Enda Cavanagh]

Now THAT is a watermark! (Although at first I thought it was a Target ad.)  It must be a gigantic image as long as it took to load, but nevertheless a very good image - well composed and exposed.

Thanks for YOUR valuable feedback on the watermark. I'm glad you're understanding of photography is so deep. The image is 300kb

[Paulo Bizarro]

Very good image, congratulations. But "landscape" category?

[wolfnowl]

Congrats!!

Mike.

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Congratulations, Enda !

[Alan Klein]

Good luck.  Hope you win.

[Enda Cavanagh]

Thanks guys. It was great to get a bit of recognition.

Very good image, congratulations. But "landscape" category?

It's a urban landscape Paulo. Not all of the landscape has trees. 

[James Clark]

Thanks guys. It was great to get a bit of recognition.

It's a urban landscape Paulo. Not all of the landscape has trees. 

HERESY!!! 

 

[Enda Cavanagh]

HERESY!!! 

 

Down with that sort of thing. You can't watch it on a smart phone. Worth a watch 

[slothead]

The image is 300kb

Must have been my connection.  Sorry you aren't into the "watermark discussion."

[sierraman]

Very nice! Was the Sun added to the original image?

[Enda Cavanagh]

Very nice! Was the Sun added to the original image?

No it was there alright. I had to blend 7 or 8 images to get the detail from the darkest to the brightest. The starburst its thanks to f16 on the Schneider. (The concrete soffit was very close so the depth of range was a bit of a challenge)