Mike Child Photography

I received an honours at last night’s Macro competition for this flower shot.

and a highly commended for this praying mantis shot

Two more honours awards at last nights Henderson Photographic Society competitions.

I got an honours for my ANZAC day image in the Photojournalism competition.

And another honours in the open subject for this pregnancy photo.

I received an honours for this night shot from Piha in tonights Night Light competition.

(Note: this definitely looks best at larger sizes, so click on it to see a larger version)

Contemplating Infinity

Officially promoted to the Salon grade (which is the highest level) of the Henderson Photographic Society tonight, and received an honours for my photo essay of the Muriwai gannet colony.

Two more honours awards from last night’s Patterns in Nature competition.

I received an honours for this pregnancy family portrait in the “One Print For My Wall” competition.

Click here for more of my pregnancy photography.

I received an honours for this pregnancy image at last night’s “Portrait” set subject competition.

Yay! Last night both of the images that I entered into the “Photojournalism” set subject competition received honours.

I did decide to join the Henderson Photographic Society and I thought I would share here some of my images that have received honours grades at the monthly club competitions.
This image got an honours in the February set subject “Emotion”.

Tonight I visited a meeting of the Henderson Photographic Society.
Their competition this week was called “AV Night” and members presented an impressive range of audio-visual presentations.
The winner was a set of glamour photographs set to the Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing” – the line “Chicks for Free” being the link between the audio and the images.
My personal favourite was a set of macro images of budding flowers entitled “Spring”. Although I felt this presentation had the strongest images, transitions and music setting, it didn’t do very well in judging, I think mainly because the judge didn’t believe the flowers were very representative of the title “Spring”.
Overall, a very enjoyable evening. I am pretty sure I will be joining this club soon.