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!"