Queensland Awards – Landscapes

One of the big tries with the AIPP Queensland 2016 Professional Photography Awards was to put four images in to the Landscape category. With four entries in a category, if they each do quite well, one might be eligible or even win that category. Landscape is perhaps the most hotly contested category at the Queensland awards, so I don’t think I had any designs on walking away with a trophy… just a good showing from some landscapes would be fantastic.

From a landscape photography perspective, I find that I gravitate towards architectural landscapes more than natural ones, from a shooting point of view anyway. I love looking at more traditional landscapes, but I find I don’t see photo opportunities as readily as I do architectural landscapes. I captured each of these on Wanda’s and my travels through Denmark and France in 2015.

Of my four landscapes, the first two of them got over the line in to Silver territory, and the last two sat in the high professional practice range without quite sneaking over that line. All up, I scored 321 points in this category, which theoretically qualifies me to be considered as a finalist. I’m very happy with these results; it’s great to have peers assess work and determine that it is all at least in that high professional practice range.