Seppi has reached the finals of Master Photographer of the Year Awards 2011!

We are very proud and excited to have just discovered that Seppi has won 2 merit awards in this year UK Master Photographer of the Year Awards. We now have to wait until October to hear if one of his two images made it to be an overall UK winner........but even so, to make it this far out of thousands of entries is so exciting, well done Seppi!!!!

Copy of article in local newspapers:

Local photographer into finals of major Photo Awards




Stirling based photographer, Seppi Preston has won two merit prizes in a major international photography awards.



Seppi’s images are now in the finals of the forthcoming Master Photographer of the Year Awards 2011. The Awards are run by The Master Photographers Association (MPA), the UK's most respected organisation for professional photographers.



Seppi, owner of Lighthouse Studios in Causewayhead, now goes forward to the final judging and faces a nervous few weeks while he waits until the Awards Ceremony in October when the overall winners will be announced. The Master Photography Awards 2011 presentations ceremony will be held at the Gateshead Hilton in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Sunday 9 October.



MPA Chief executive, Colin Buck made this comment on Seppi’s achievement: "It is exciting to reach the Merit award stage of judging as Seppi was in competition with the very best photographers in the world. There were over 2,500 images submitted this year so to be awarded a Merit prize is a real success, well done to Seppi, and good luck in the final!"

Seppi's Got Talent!!!

May saw the Annual Master Photography Awards in Scotland, held this year at Dunblane Hydro.
And guess what....Seppi came away with FOUR awards. Considering there were over 900 entries this year, we are very proud.

This photo of Chris and Antonia's wedding won and Award of Excellence in the Complete Wedding category. Seppi loved the fun of their wedding day, and also was really happy with lots of the shots of Chris and Antonia - for this category you have to put together 10 photos, to capture the emotion of the day, which these photos certainly do!

This unique shot was for a corporate Christmas card (believe it or not) and we love the way that Fin the dog is almost rolling his eyes at what the guys behind him are wearing!!!! A merit award for this photo, this time in the contemporary portrait category.

And the photo that won Seppi and award of excellence in the family portrait category - the Richmond family, who had a ball during their session!!!

And last but not least - Chris and Antonia again, this time in the reportage wedding category - winner of an award of excellence.

Some familiar faces

I was really pleased to see not one but two wedding customers coming back this week to have their photos taken ... we took Lorna and Scott's wedding photos in 2006, and then Lorna's brother David married Marion in 2009 and now they both have gorgeous sons. So slightly different from wedding photography, the whole troop came in to get family shots taken, and fun was had by all!

Pre-Wedding Shoot - Eva and James

Eva and James came into our studio in Stirling for a pre-wedding shoot - this helps get used to the camera, and how I work. We started in the studio, with Eva and James getting into their new modelling careers! I really enjoyed it too, they were lots of fun.

Then with it being quite a nice day, we were able to get out to the park just next door, for some more photos. All in all a great session - I look forward to their wedding in May up in Inverness, think there might be quite a lot of laughter.

 

Corporate Photos

We were approached by Barty's solicitors to photograph their staff - they wanted informal, approachable photos of everyone for their website.

They enjoyed it, and we got some great pictures for their promotional use to help them stand out from the crowd.

Family Get-together

Well, here we are, back again after a VERY long blogging break - we had our busiest EVER quarter at the end of 2010, can't believe we got it all done! Then we took a family holiday in January (taking advantage of being able to take holidays during term time, for the last time before Mylo starts school in August).

So anyway, here we are, back again, and what a start to 2011 it has been. Family get togethers has been very popular for us in recent years - Seppi was delighted to photograph the Richmond family - with 19 people in the group, they were really happy at the variety of poses that Seppi captured; the kids had a great time too which shows in the photos.

They even managed a fun one, with everyone letting their hair down, and with some pretty impressive jumps!!!