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QCCP August 2011 NewsFLASH
NZIPP Iris Awards Rotorua 5-7 August 2011 Upcoming Landscape Photography workshops West Coast-September Win a Landscape Photography workshop with us-sponsor Canon
Queenstown Centre for Creative Photography. Mike and myself have just returned from the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography Awards known as the ‘Iris Awards’ held this year in Rotorua. Sponsored by Epson For the first time I have won three categories. NZIPP Landscape category winner -Jackie Ranken -Sponsored by Canon NZIPP Illustrative category winner -Jackie Ranken -Sponsored NZIPP NZIPP Editorial Category winner -Jackie Ranken - Sponsored by NZIPP Highest scoring monochrome image -Jackie Ranken - Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Thanks go to Canon Rochelle Mora and Robert de Jeu for their ongoing support. All our images were printed on our Canon Pro 9500 MKII A3 printer.
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The Iris Awards is the NZIPP, New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography’s premier event of the year. I really enjoy entering and it’s very gratifying to be announced a winner. People say “you must be happy” and yes I am but it’s more a sense of conviction that I am in the right place at the right time. That I am blessed to be in living in Queenstown with Mike and am able to express myself through my photography. Photographers may enter up to ten images, with a maximum of four images in any one category. At the end of each session the three highest scoring photographers images in each category are brought before a panel of five judges to select the category winner. To be eligible to win the coveted ‘Photographer of the Year’ , the honours committee select five of the top judges who have no connection with the finalists to judge the collection of six top scoring images from three photographers. These photographers are called the finalists. Over discussion and debate (behind closed doors) the selection is made. This year Richard Wood was the winner. Points are accumulated with each award print; three points for Gold, two for silver and one for bronze. These points goes towards our honours of Master photographer and Fellow photographer and finally Grand Master. So I guess that is my goal to become a Grand master in New Zealand and Australia. This year I won two Gold, seven silver and one bronze award. See all the award winners at this link at the nzipp.org.nz site
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In the Next newsletter I will have a report on the Mount Cook Winter Workshop and a link to the Rotorua Workshop book.
We have two places left in the West Coast Landscape Workshop. September 23-27 2011 see link here Contact me NOW to reserve the last places.
info@qccp.co.nz Enter the Canon PHOTO5 competition and be in to win a Landscape Photography Workshop with us. Log into the World of EOS . http://www.canon.com.au/en-au/worldofeos/photo5/Enter QCCP Workshops for 2012 February 24-27 Portraiture -Queenstown $1200 April 6-9 Autumn Colours I - Queenstown $1200 April 13-16 Autumn Colours II - Queenstown $1200 May 18-21 Kinloch-at the head of Lake Wakatipu $1740