I am back at writing, after busy weeks.
I already told you that I won a contest, but now, after waiting for 6 weeks, I also know exactly which place I made.
I participated in the german photography contest “Blende”, which is a huge national newspaper reader photography contest. To participate you have to look for a newspaper in your area (but not necessarily in your area) and see which topics they offer. You then are allowed to hand in 3 shots for each topic.
In my case I chose the “Junge Welt”, which is a left-wing daily newspaper in Berlin. I really liked their topics and I also participated in the last few years which made the decision even easier.
The topics were:
Travel around the Globe
Show the face
On the Street
Its always a tough task to choose only three images per topic, since I have more than 600 images to choose from, but with the help of my wonderful girlfriend Mandy I finally cut the selection down to the final nine shots.
Now you probably want to know what finally came out, heh?
I made it into the 8 winners in two of the three categories which is an amazing result.
In the categorie “Show the face” I won the 8th place with this shot that I took in Oslo earlier this year:
In the category “Travel around the Globe” I won the 1st price which is a result that I am incredibly proud of.
I won with this shot:
Even though its only the 1st place in the contest of this one newspaper, it still makes me proud.
Being placed within the first 8 in at least one category qualifies the shot to be participating in the german-wide contest.
That means, these two shots get another winning chance in February.
Here you can see the newspaper publication featuring my shots and the other shots that placed within the top 8 and a photo of the winners:
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For these two winner positions I won a box of wine, a photo book coupon, a gold medal and an incredible 500€ travel coupon.
Now I am awaiting the german-wide contest, which will be decided in February 2012.
Thank you so much for visiting my website and supporting my photography, thats a big reason I am doing all this.
THANK YOU!
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