International Awards

It's been a while since I updated this blog, last September in fact.  This has been a quiet year for me photographically, but nonetheless, I have entered a couple of International Photographic Salons, three in fact and have had a little success on the acceptances front as well as having won a couple of medals in Spain.
Celbridge Camera Club runs an international salon each year, and this year I entered 8 pictures in two categories and had 7 of those pictures accepted into the exhibition.

Photoclub 202 in Serbia also run an annual salon and I had 11 of twelve entries accepted into their exhibiton.  Finally last year I entered the Salon Internacional de Onto Saragosa in Spain, where I was successful in both the Open and Experimental sections.  In the Open section I was awarded a Gold Salon Medal for a still life entry, Boot Polish (above) and a silver medal in the Experimental section was for an entry titled Shaving (below).

 
This brings my acceptance total to in excess of 150.  After gaining an AFIAP distinction in 2009, I think it's about time I began to concentrate on more salons and go for the EFIAP distinction.  I'm a little short on some of the requirements for this but it shouldn't be too difficult to brush up on the requirements and concentrate on sending pictures to a few more countries with a view to hopefully getting awards.