Well I'd just whipped back over from the land of milk and honey (NZ) in time to spend two very long days and nights preparing and printing eight images for the tassie state professional photography awards. It was a bit of a miracle that my printer was even working after 3 1/2 months in a very hot shed over summer, all reasonable expectations were that it would be a dried out minx! Yet to my absolute delight, the very first print was perfect!
I journeyed up to Launnie for the judging and managed to pull five silver awards out of the hat, which I was very happy with! With four out of four awards in the open category I was in the running for the title, but I ended up about 5 points behind the leaders (out of 360 or so), so ended with a third. Better luck next year! Pam Verwey and Phil Kuruvita battled it out for the top spot, which Phil won on a decimal point countback!
The following day by Ross Easton led a very insightful session about the future of photography.
Did you know that the largest camera manufacturer in the world is actually Nokia - the phone company?!!! He spoke a lot about the merging of video and still photography (labelled 'fusion'), the hugely expanding role of CGI (computer generated imagery) and the magazine and newspaper world converting to digital viewing... it's a fast changing medium... incredibly so.
Here's a few of my entries this year's TPPY...
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