Alhamdulillah, Wow! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read an email from IPA today. It was one of those emails that had ‘Admin’ as the title. To be honest with you, I really suspected it to be a SPAM. But for whatever reason I decided to not let the email go by just like that. So this is what the email read :
Dear Contestant,
Congratulations! Your work has been recognized as an Honorable Mention recipient in the 2010 International Photography Awards competition. With approximately 15,000 submissions from 103 countries across the globe, it was no easy feat for our jurors to award this year’s submissions. By the close of this week, you can log into your photoawards.com account and go to your winner’s services link on your member homepage. There you will find a downloadable certificate of recognition, a sample Press Release, as well as a seal that you can post on your website, blog or other webpages. This will be available for you by Friday, August 27. Please visit http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/Gallery.php to view all Finalists, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and fellow Honorable Mention recipients!
Thank you for setting the standard for excellence in Photography by participating in IPA. Congratulations once more and wishing you continued success in your photographic endeavors.
Regards,
Sarah Cho
Competition Director
International Photography Awards
Anyway here is the submission pic which I grabbed off the screen:
It was really sweet to find out also that I only sent this one entry in the competition and it receives Second spot in Honorable Mentions
Anyway below is the pic in greater detail:













































































