The results for the latest IPPA/RSA National Photography Awards preliminary judging came through earlier in the week. Been so busy I haven’t been able to post about it.

You always hope that the judges will see sense and award your photographs the proper number of gold distinctions, none of this bronze and silver nonsense. Sometimes, they don’t. Sometimes they do. And, occasionally, one of your pictures gets pulled up for particular praise and you are given a diamond distinction. Diamond awards are as rare as hen’s teeth and only given to photographs that the judges agree are as close to perfection as is possible, with a minuscule margin of leeway – a hair being out of place, that sort of thing. Only two per cent of photographs entered for the judgings get diamond awards.

The image below taken during the recent shoot at Spa Lighting & Living in Co. Kerry was awarded a diamond distinction – my first for my commercial work. I also picked up three golds during the judging, so I’m a happy piggy.

Diamond photograph - (c) Roger Overall 2009 - www.rogeroverall.net