This year, for the first time, I entered the most prestigious photography competition in New Zealand – the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers IRIS Awards.

I created the photographs especially for this competition.
You can see the beautiful selections of model I had to work with – and choose from – in the Black and White Studio Sessions project.  I photographed 17 dogs in total and chose two to be submitted … however I could have entered at least 4 more!

Here are this years entries and their marks:

A Portrait of Nixie Lix (76 - Bronze Award)

A PORTRAIT OF NIXIE | PORTRAIT CLASSSIC | 76 – BRONZE

Spuds Tongue (69 - Professional/Q Standard)

SPUDS TONGUE | PORTRAIT CREATIVE | 69 – PROFESSIONAL/Q STANDARD