Big Congratulations to Hilary Hann

Hilary has won 3 Gold-check this out!!

Professional Landscape Photographer of the Year
Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year
Graham Shevlin Highest Scoring Colour Print
Robyn Stewart Highest Scoring Monochrome Print
Runner up Photographer of the Year (for the Fine Art Portfolio)
Winner Professional Photographer of the Year (for the Landscape Portfolio)

This is all for South Australia only, but with National judges.


A note from Hilary,
I was overwhelmed and feel very humbled by this. Hopefully it is another step along the route to my fine art goals.
I just want to say again how inspiring the team at OOTB has been with all my fine art compositions and it has been a wonderfully warm and creative environment.

Thank you

Congratulation Hilary! You certainly deserve it... you have shared some of the outstanding fine art compositions on OOTB.

HILARY! So excited for you!!! A HUGE congratulations!!

How exciting Hilary! Congrats! You certainly deserve it after seeing many of your fine images here!

Mazel tov on all counts! Do you have a link to the competition results???

Big congratulations, Hilary!! :S3:

Thank you everyone, thanks Denise for posting this. I'll link to the threads which appeared on BPN over the weekend. Just been celebrating with my fine art printer as he had to put up with a lot of tweaking, reprinting, testing because I'm a bit fussy.

Artie, I'll link to the results page as soon as they finish the uploads. At the moment the Awards council members are busy taking down all the judging paraphernalia and preparing all the prints for the exhibition which will open soon. It is a bit slower because it is judged on physical prints rather than online.

Again, I am very grateful for all the wonderful critiquing and support I've received over the years. You are a wonderful lot of talented, creative, generous people … and I tell everyone of my professional photography friends who photograph in anything Nature related to join.

Hilary, congratulations! We enjoy your artwork so much. I'm looking forward to seeing the winners:S3:

What a wonderful thing! Congratulations to you, Hillary!

BIG CONGRATS Hilary!!! :S3:

Congratulations, Hilary! :S3:

Huge congratulations, Hillary! I look forward to the link to learn more.

Congratulations, Hilary! That is great news, I also look forward to the links. I keep telling people about your beautiful fine art photography, but can only find just a few samples online. Cheers! :cheers:

Thank you everyone, I have been told that the official announcement will be uploaded to the AIPP website next week so can't link until then. However, I have found all the links to the critiques which may interest some of you. I made some changes on some of the images, but I need to say that they all were printed on fine art paper and it does effect the final image which is presented to the judges, so the images you see on screen are of necessity different.
I have also attached a very small thumbnail of all 8 together, but please don't judge the quality based on the little file! :tinysmile_shy_t:

In no particular order;
Two Trees, entered in Landscape (composite) - scored Gold
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/88586-Two-Trees?highlight=

Garden of Eden, entered in Landscape (composite) - scored a Silver Distinction
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/86776-Garden-of-Eden?highlight=

Thermals, entered in Landscape (composite) - scored a Silver Distinction
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/85231-Thermals?highlight=

Sentinels, entered in Landscape - scored a Gold. Please note that I totally re processed this file from RAW several times and ended up with a b&w with a grainier look. This print won the highest scoring monochrome image over all the categories. The critiquing thread photo bares little resemblance to the final image (probably a good thing!).
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/79275-Gathering-storm?highlight=

Alone, entered in Fine Art - scored a Gold Distinction.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/85401-Alone?highlight=

Kite, entered in Fine Art - Scored Gold
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/87508-Kite?highlight=

Ibis, entered in Fine Art - scored Silver. I lightened this considerably from the original presented for C&C.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/87635-Local-Ibis?highlight=

Elebitz, entered in Fine Art - scored Gold Distinction and highest scoring colour print over the whole competition. I was particularly pleased with how this image was received.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/85993-Ele-bitz?highlight=

So now I have to choose 4 from the above 8 to present to the Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards next May.

Again, thanks to everyone.

WOW Hilary!! This is amazing! Your work is simply superb!! Very well done!:cheers:

Thanks Ofer, appreciate your comments. I have just received notification that I won 3 silvers and 1 bronze in the recently judge International Loupe Awards (2 images from above + 2 others) so I have had a great couple of weeks. Now it is back to boring old work...... :bugeyed:

The link Artie asked for
http://www.sa.aippblog.com/?page_id=12

Congratulations Mate, totally deserved!! :cheers:

Congratulations Hilary, I've always loved your work....

Mazel tov again and thanks for posting the links. I hang out in OOTB a bit; cannot believe I did not see any of them! My fave is the vertical elephant bits composite.

Wow Hilary,
Really impressive! Congratulations!

Roger