International photography award!

As well as keeping busy in my photography studio creating portraits for my clients, I like to enter photographic competitions every now and then to keep me on my toes.

Getting my photography assessed and graded is an important way for me to learn how to keep improving my portrait photography.

Of course, winning a photography award is always lovely (and I’ve won many awards in the past). But that’s honestly not what I expect when I enter.

Award-winning portrait photographer

So, imagine my surprise when I entered the RISE photography awards recently and came away with a Bronze award in the Newborn Photography category and three Silver awards; two in the Children’s Photography category and one in the Maternity Photography category.

girl in the lavender field
girl in hat wondering though a wildflower field

Best of all, I also had an image shortlisted for the Final in the Newborn category. It was selected by the judges as one of the best top 20 images from a total of 1100 entries in its category! OMG!

I was completely bowled over when I heard the news and felt very proud of myself, that’s for sure!

baby photo in awards

International photography awards

The RISE Awards are huge in the portrait photography industry.

They were founded by Australian newborn photographer Kelly Brown, who’s the very best photographer in the newborn industry in my opinion. I had the pleasure of attending one of Kelly’s photography workshops a few years ago, which I wrote about on the blog.)

The RISE international photography award is a competition open to portrait photographers all over the world.

There were over 4000 entries in total by photographers across the nine categories; maternity photography, birth photography, newborn photography, baby photography, children photography, family photography, pet/animal photography, portrait, photography, and wedding photography.

Twins photographer
award winning maternity photographer

Winning these international photography awards for my newborn, child and maternity portraits is a great personal achievement, and I hope gives you some reassurance that my work is of the highest quality.

Over the summer, I also won two Gold awards with the Societies of Photographers for my outdoor newborn portraits, so that was another highlight as well!

If you’d like to book a portrait session with me, get in touch as soon as possible to secure one of the last few slots I have available this year.  

Karen x