Awards for Warwickshire’s Dog Photographer and her Child Portraits
Every year I enter the Guild of Photographers annual awards, I’ve previously come within a whisker of winning their Child Portrait Photographer of the Year, been awarded a Double Bar for my images in both the Pet Portrait and Children’s Portrait categories. The competitions are not easy to win and many involve submitting images every month over the course of year so your submission becomes a body of work, the photographer with the most points at the end of the year wins. The monthly competitions offer Gold ,Silver and Bronze Awards and I have won all three in both Pet Portrait & Child Portraiture. In years gone I have also won many regional awards with the Master Photographers Association (MPA) and made it into their UK finals as well. I was also greatly honored to be asked to give my permission for my qualifying panel to be taken on tour of the UK when I initially qualified some (some years ago now!). I’ve also won Gold Awards & Highly Commended Awards with the SWPP’s International Competition. Dogs Today Magazine have even given me the monocle of being one of the worlds best dog photographers!
This year I also entered the Guild of Photographer print competition. Here’s what the papers had to say!
“A Photographer from Bishops Tachbrook was the focus of praise at a National Awards event. Christine Lynne Burkes portraits of dogs at Kenilworth Castle and a lonesome tree at Burton Dassett were highlighted as being of an “exemplary standard” and narrowly missed taking top place in the annual print competition at the Guild of Photographers annual awards in Cheshire. Special mention was made of her professionalism, creativity, as well as the high quality of the printing and mounting. Christine said “To have your work judged in front of all the competitors a number of which had flown in from other countries, is a very exhilarating experience and to be the only photographer who was selected for special mention after the judging is a moment I shall never forget, making it into the final was simply amazing of itself being singled out afterwards was incredible.”