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London Award-Winning Maternity Photographer

To keep growing as a newborn and maternity photographer, submitting images to competitions is quite a big thing. There are many photographers’ associations that offer monthly competitions.

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1 “I have been admiring the photos everyday! What a good job you have done and I am really glad to have the photography session with you!”
2 I have to admit that the ability to say that I’m a London award-winning maternity photographer is pretty awesome and makes me feel quite proud of my work!

Several categories cover all aspects of photography, and you are allowed to enter 1 image per category per month.  The judges who review the images are some of the most esteemed Fellow, Master and Grand Master photographers in the UK and across the world.

This month I sent a couple of images to National Photographic Society and I was thrilled when I got a gold award for the category Pregnancy and Babies.

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I also received a highly commended award for another image from the same session!

London award winning maternity photographer. Silhouette of pregnant woman

When I told my client that her image won an award she was very excited and felt like a model 🙂

I don’t enter my images into competitions every month. Even if I know it helps in learning more and growing,  sometimes I forget, and sometimes I feel I don’t have images strong enough or good enough.

But I do deliver images to my clients every month. The feedback from my clients is even more important than an award to me.

“I have been admiring the photos everyday! What a good job you have done and I am really glad to have the photography session with you!”

Receiving a text the day after the session to say “Thanks so much for the session, it was great fun” makes my work feel appreciated. I know these are small things, but for me, as a working mum and a small business is huge!

I have to admit that the ability to say that I’m a London award-winning maternity photographer is pretty awesome and makes me feel quite proud of my work!

If you are interested in knowing more about maternity photography visit my website.

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