Each year, Shoot & Share hosts a photography contest for photographers world wide. Photographers enter and photographers vote! Votes were cast from over 130 countries this year...holy cow! Categories range from various parts of a wedding to babies to families to animals to landscapes, etc! Photographers may enter up to 50 images into the contest. This year's contest had just under 333,000 images entered by AMAZING photographer world wide! During voting, where I didn't come across a single one of my images, I was so inspired by my colleagues!
We have some serious talent in this world and it is truly breathtaking! Voting took me out of this place and into the center of so many stunning locations I could only dream of visiting. I can't wait to pick up my camera on May 6th when we kick off our wedding season because I am filled with so much inspiration that I can't wait to unleash upon my awesome clients! I entered this contest for the first time in 2016 and made it to the top 20% with 3 images and the top 30% with 1 image. To me, making that far in a contest this talent-filled was truly unbelievable. Well, I surprised myself yet again!
Just before the midnight entry deadline, I ran to my computer (because I had totally forgotten the cutoff date) and grabbed about 50 random pictures from the past year and entered them. I was bleary-eyed and exhausted...and honestly super indecisive because all of our clients had some seriously amazing pictures from their weddings/sessions.
After a month of voting and calculations, the results are finally in and I am BLOWN AWAY! I had SEVEN images make it to the top 30% of the contest, SIX images make it to the top 20% and (drumroll please) one of my images of our beautiful bride, Kelli, was a FINALIST in the "Just the Bride" category! I am so thrilled that I had images make it through ALL TWELVE ROUNDS of voting! It still hasn't hit me that FOURTEEN of my images placed in the top 30% this year! What a huge leap from the FOUR that placed last year! I cannot wait to create some magic this year and see where we place in the 2018 contest!
Thank you to all of our 2016 clients! We had SO much fun working with each of you! To all of our 2017 (and beyond) clients, we can't wait to create some stunning, unique images together!
