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Communication Arts Magazine 51st Annual Photography competition winner and published in the July / August photo annual issue

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:42:05 +0000

Earlier this year I entered a photography competition for the first time. It is in a magazine called Communication Arts, and this is their 51st annual photography competition. The magazine, often seen lying around in studios, is heralded as the most influential publication for art directors and creative directors and has world-wide distribution.

I was incredibly excited and honored when I got the email a few weeks back announcing that I was selected as one of the winners in the unpublished category of the 2010 competition. A copy of the magazine containing my winning image arrived at my house while I was at work in the studio so my entire family got to see it before I did I asked my daughter, who had just returned from her first gig as a shooter at a wedding to take a shot of me with the magazine.

My photograph was printed on page 192 of their just released, July / August issue, and it was selected along with the other winners out of a total 13,000 photographs from 6,075 entries. The editorial staff at Communication Arts citing the full impact of the recession, observed a significant drop in entries to this year’s Photography Annual, which in the past, has had as many as 40,000 photographs submitted from all over the world.

My winning photograph was entitled “Fragile – An essay to portray a vulnerable soul”. The model in this photograph is a wonderful lady from Senegal, who was studying in College Station at the time I had the opportunity to work with her.

The shot comes from a collection of beauty & fashion work I shoot under the studio name Hananexposures. This work can be seen on my websitewww.hananexposures.com

Portraits, headshots and model portfolios…

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:18:22 +0000

In addition to shooting weddings under the name 2arenow1, for many years I have been shooting other generes including beauty & fashion, live bands, headshots etc. under the name Hananexposures.

I just added a new section to this blog which will give you some exposure to those areas of my work. Click the image below, or select Portraits, Headshots & models from my navigation to visit that section.

It was time to shoot my assistant . . .

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:46:57 +0000

. . . with her permission, of course.

As a wedding photographer, having a second shooter affords me the flexibility and coverage I must have to tell the complete story of a couple’s big day. I reckon it’s time for you to meet my assistant and second shooter for weddings. Viewers . . . meet Melissa of Melissa Weston Photography; Melissa . . . meet my blog viewers. Aside from shooting with me at weddings, Melissa does family portraits, and she specializes in taking photos of moms with toddlers.

The shots displayed below are of Melissa—she needed some for her website and blog, so we went out last week.

As you can see below, Melissa is a great person to work with—friendly, fun and calm, all at the same time.