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I took this vintage glamour style shot using the popular burgundy luxury velvet. The velvet was draped to create texture and enhance the depth of this picture. I posed Anastasia in a fifties fashion that looks wonderful. Click to continue…
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I’m delighted this photo achieved a Silver award in last month’s SWPP competition for traditional portraiture. Not my usual style of photography. I took this shot of Pete while Imke did Maria’s make-up in preparation for their romantic couple portraits. Click to continue…
This beautiful fine art nudes photography image achieved a silver award in the SWPP monthly competition for monochrome pohotography.

Silver award winning fine art nudes photograph of a woman in black and white
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This beautiful portrait of Sarah scooped a bronze award for traditional portrait photography in last month’s SWPP competitions. Click to continue…
A few months ago I started a new blog tag to include any award winning images from the SWPP monthly competitions.

GOLD Award Winning Beauty and Glamour in SWPP competitions with sensuous boudoir photograph
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I’m thrilled that this beautiful pregnancy photograph of Sarah did so well in last month’s SWPP photography competition achieving a silver award. Especially as this was one of Sarah’s favourite images!
After Sarah saw her maternity photography for the first time she told me:
“Thank you so much for yesterday I had a really good day – and was very brave!
…may end up with a few more pictures as I really like more than I thought I would (when I say that I mean I dont normally like looking at photographs of me but I love these)!“
Things have moved on
Photography and photoshop skills have moved on considerably since I took this maternity photograph. And the competition standards have become much tougher too. These images may both have got Silver awards but they’re leagues apart.

Creative maternity photography scoops a silver award.
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Silver Award for Environmental Portraiture
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Over the Christmas period we had a short break in Egypt. This was partly for my daughter as this will probably be the last chance for the whole family to go on holiday together; She’ll be going to university to study Bio-Chemistry! However it was also very much a business trip for me. Click to continue…