The winners of the ICM challenge 2023 so far

from Charlotte Bellamy Photography Newsletter May 2023

Course feedback and reviews

After a massively successful 2022 challenge, this year is off to a great start – check out the winners from the first three months.

Anyone who has followed an online or in person course or mentoring is invited to join my creative community, at no cost.

In 2022 I ran a wonderfully successful ICM challenge with some super images submitted and a great end of year presentation event.

This year we already have three worthy winning images from the three monthly challenges, which have been judged by the amazing external judges Annemarie Hoogwoud, Doug Chinnery and Valda Bailey. Each kindly offering their time to judge the monthly challenge and offering feedback to the top 3.

Around 30 entries are submitted each challenge, with points awarded to the top 10 placings, which go forwards towards the ICM photographer of the year title.

To see all the entries this year so far please go to this page https://www.charlottebellamy.com/icm challenge2023

Tulips of Amsterdam

I was thrilled to fly in from Canada to participate in the workshop. We have the Tulip Festival in Ottawa, Canada every year where people come from all over to see the tulips but it pales in comparison in what we photographed in Amsterdam.

The whole workshop was planned perfectly. The hotels we stayed at were great with fabulous breakfasts. The locations we got to photograph were picture perfect. Breath-taking tulip fields. Quaint little towns. The beauty and craziness of the Keukenhof Gardens.

Charlotte‘s expertise and knowledge of the area was priceless. My main goal was to get some assistance regarding ICM and I feel much more confident using this technique.