Today I am simultaneously happy, proud, and humbled to announce that I’ve placed in the 2011 1st quarter AGWPJA awards, a division of WPJA

I’ve been honored to win a few awards for AGWPJA contests, this is my THIRD win for the WPJA. What makes this so special for me is not just the prestige or bragging rights. It’s because the image that won is one that I feel is indicative of the approach I take with my work.

These were the judges comments:

“Strong composition with the subject framed in the right third of the frame. Nice capture of emotion and gesture and the toning works well.”

This image, from Elton + Joylynn a wedding at Bangalore, India won 2nd place in the Ceremony categories

And there pre wedding images was taken at Botanical garden City of Bangalore

7th place – The Creative Portrait category

Judges Comment:

Simple and clean with nice graphic appeal and really nice tone in the sky. Strong composition.

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Dear wonderful people : )

I am both honored and humbled to announce that we received 10 awards from last December and January 2010/2011 from organisation WPPI (Wedding & Portrait Photographers International), AG[WPJA]Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association or Artistic Wedding Photojournalism , Creative Asia founder by Louis Pang.

Award including 2nd, 5th 10th from AG[WPJA], 2x Accolade of Excellence from WPPI, 4x Bronze and 1x silver from Creative Asia.

Received many blessings and thanks to my *amazing* clients who i am privileged to also call friends, and the amazing group of friends and family who have given me so much love and support during the busiest year of my life.

Thanks as well to the print comp judges who opened their minds and hearts to fight for images which didn’t fit into historical standards.

Thank you all for the many, many letters of congratulations and warm wishes : ) we very much appreciate the love! Status below was featuring the winning images:

2nd Place

The image was taken at Malacca, and everything as simple yet elegant

5th Place

Really enjoy photographing Indian weddings because of all the vibrant colors in everyone’s clothing.  We caught this great moment during Maiyaan oil ceremony.  It’s showing the mixture made of turmeric powder, flour, and oil is applied to the bride’s face, arms, legs and feet to cleanse the body in preparation for the new life ahead of them.

10th Place
The other winning image was taken wedding reception at the Pulau Pangkor. Ceremony start at 4.00am in the morning, the images is show the musicians play music on beach side. Its really fantastic build and nice ambiance natural lighting we had. As I know the deco is worth about 30k.

1st Award Accolade of Excellence from WPPI – Title: The Gothic Romance

2nd Award Accolade of Excellence from WPPI – Title: Ring Detail

Silver Award from Creative Asia

4x Bronze Award from Creative Asia