Irish Landscape photographer of the year 2021

I normally don’t advertise awards as to be honest as they generally don’t mean a lot to me and I haven’t entered a photography competition in over three years now, yes, you read that right, so how the heck did this happen then???

That’s exactly why these two awards have taken me by surprise as I didn’t enter either of them. I was entered by clients in both awards, that has not only shocked me but truly humbled me. Nothing means more to me than a happy client and that’s always my aim with both my prints and my workshops. As you may have guessed I have some amazing clients and none of this would have been possibly without their support and recommendations. I owe it all to my clients really and I see these awards are for us as it simply wouldn’t have been possibly without ye.

Hence the reason I am writing this blog post to let you all know what we have achieved and as a thank you also for everything.

This all started back in December when I got an email to say I (we) had made the qualifying round of the Irish Enterprise Awards for Most Innovative Irish Landscape Photographer of the year 2021. On receipt of this email I confirmed there must have been some kind of a mistake as I never entered the competition.

The following day I got an email back to say three clients had nominated me for the award, this as you can imagine completely blew my mind and I honestly wasn’t expecting to win the Irish Landscape photographer of the year but I was flattered to make the qualifying round.

You can imagine my surprise in February when I got an email to say we made the top three and we were in the last stage of the awards.

I was delighted at the idea but when the follow up email came through in May 2021 I was a lot more than shocked to see we had actually won the Most Innovative Irish Landscape Photographer of the year 2021 by the Irish Enterprise Awards.

It took me a bit of time to understand what just actually happened and I kept thinking this was a mistake some how… but it wasn’t and we actually won, so thank you everyone.