QCCP August 2011 NewsFLASH

NZIPP Iris Awards Rotorua 5-7 August 2011

Upcoming Landscape Photography workshops West Coast-September

Win a Landscape Photography workshop with us-sponsor Canon

Queenstown Centre for Creative Photography.Mike and myself have just returned from the New Zealand Institute of

Professional Photography Awards known as the ‘Iris Awards’ held this year in Rotorua.

Sponsored by Epson

For the !rst time I have won three categories. NZIPP Landscape category winner -Jackie Ranken -Sponsored by Canon

NZIPP Illustrative category winner -Jackie Ranken -Sponsored NZIPP

NZIPP Editorial Category winner -Jackie Ranken - Sponsored by NZIPP

Highest scoring monochrome image -Jackie Ranken - Sponsored by Hewle! Packard

"anks go to Canon Rochelle Mora and Robert de Jeu for their ongoing support. All our images were printed on our Canon Pro 9500 MKII A3 printer.

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"e Iris Awards is the NZIPP, New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography’s pre-mier event of the year. I really enjoy entering and it’s very gratifying to be announced a winner. People say “you must be happy” and yes I am but it’s more a sense of conviction that I am in the right place at the right time. "at I am blessed to be in living in Queen-stown with Mike and am able to express myself through my photography.

Photographers may enter up to ten images, with a maximum of four images in any one cate-gory. At the end of each session the three highest scoring photographers images in each cate-gory are brought before a panel of #ve judges to select the category winner. To be eligible to win the coveted ‘Photographer of the Year’ , the honours commi!ee select #ve of the top judges who have no connection with the #nalists to judge the collection of six top scoring im-ages from three photographers. "ese photographers are called the #nalists. Over discussion and debate (behind closed doors) the selection is made. "is year Richard Wood was the winner.Points are accumulated with each award print; three points for Gold, two for silver and one for bronze. "ese points goes towards our honours of Master photographer and Fellow pho-tographer and #nally Grand Master. So I guess that is my goal to become a Grand master in New Zealand and Australia. "is year I won two Gold, seven silver and one bronze award. See all the award winners at this link at the nzipp.org.nz site

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In the Next newsle!er I will have a report on the Mount Cook Winter Workshop and a link to the Rotorua Workshop book.

We have two places le" in the West Coast Landscape Workshop.

September 23-27 2011 see link hereContact me NOW to reserve the last places.

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Enter the Canon PHOTO5 competition and be in to win a Landscape Photography Workshop with us. Log into the World of EOS .

h!p://www.canon.com.au/en-au/worldofeos/photo5/Enter

QCCP Workshops for 2012

February 24-27 Portraiture -Queenstown $1200

April 6-9 Autumn Colours I - Queenstown $1200

April 13-16 Autumn Colours II - Queenstown $1200

May 18-21 Kinloch-at the head of Lake Wakatipu $1740

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