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I\u2019ve had a few big achievements this year. First one was passing my A-Panel and gaining my Associateship level with the Master Photographers\u2019 Association (MPA). This was HUGE, I\u2019m super proud of this, and I know I worked mighty hard for a couple of years towards that!
But then, following the A, I won \u201cChild photographer of the year, East Midlands MPA\u201d and \u201cOverall photographer of the year, East Midlands MPA\u201d, and actually another 9 various accreditations at those same awards, but I find it really difficult to accept those!<\/p>\n
What I am really grateful for, is the fact that these awards confirm the quality of my work. They confirm that the images I create for my customers are of a high standard, and I know I am constantly improving \u2013 and that is important to me, and means a lot!<\/p>\n
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The awards have brought up another conflict too. The images I get all the awards for, the monthly \u201cHighly commended\u201d, my A-panel, they are all beautiful images, but they are all images of children, and my big thing is getting mums in the pictures! But I include mums in natural ways, with focus on her connection with her children, and those images are not the kind of images that win awards!<\/p>\n
Yet, when I look through old work on my PC, the images that makes me go \u201caww, I still love this\u201d are usually images of mums with kids. The images that I KNOW mum will cherish deeply in 50 years time, in fact for generations, are the ones with her in the frame! Does that mean I am artificially creating images, just to win awards? Don\u2019t get me wrong, you WILL get those gorgeous kids portraits at your session but I was never about \u201cjust one picture of the kids\u201d, I have always been about bigger story telling galleries!<\/p>\n
I also vividly remember another photographer practically spitting at my some years back saying \u201cwhy do you care about awards, customers don\u2019t care about awards, only photographers care about awards!\u201d. I guess I now know, that the reason I care about awards, is because it confirms that for a very brief moment, in that room I was told that my work is good enough. I care because I know it means I am constantly developing and improving, for my customers.<\/p>\n
Awards might sometimes come easy on the day, but there is a lot of work leading up to that day.<\/p>\n
Anyway, all that said, these lovely trophies (I choose 2, rather than getting all 11!), are settling into the studio very nicely, and I must admit the more I walk in and see them, the more I feel they are \u201cmine\u201d.<\/p>\n
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When someone else get\u2019s an award I think it\u2019 amazing and wow, and I\u2019m totally impressed. When I get an ward, the voices in my head immediate start a record of \u201cmaybe not very many people entered his time\u201d, \u201cI just got lucky that the judge really liked my style\u201d, \u201cthese kind of awards don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-lifestyle-photography","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorte.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}