This was totally unexpected.

During the Connecticut Professional Photographers Associations annual convention, I sat in on my favorite part, the print competition. The competition is judged by certified Professional Photographers Association judges that painstakingly look at every image in the competition and score them. They judge on the overall image, composition, work done to it, print quality, presentation, and more. I’ll admit I had some print issues this year. That’s not an excuse. I fell short on 3 images being at the level I wanted to be at by literally 1 point out of total 100 (I scored three 79’s). 1 Point! One image did make it, scoring an 80. But to me that just meant I could have done better. That’s just me being hard on myself and wanting to push myself further.

Then came the awards banquet Saturday night. All the judges awards were being handing out for, honestly, some amazing prints. Really unbelievable in some cases. Then came the top category of awards. The Court of Honor. This is simply for the best image in it’s category, period. Even if it scored an 80. The judges go back and look at all the images in the category again and narrow it down to their choice of the best image.

This year I’m honored to say that it was one of my images titled “Nerves” that took the most prestigious award given to a connecticut photographer in the weddings category, the Court Of Honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the judges.

Every time this year I start begging for your votes! This is for the annual New Haven Advocate – Best of New Haven! I was voted #1 for the past two years. Click here to submit your vote: New Haven Advocate Best Of Voting Look for the Getting Married section and fill in the photographer line with Photographer-RE! You will have to vote for more than just one person in one category. It’s easy enough to look through the other sections and fill in some more. Have fun with it!

And of course, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your vote. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my clients, their family, and their friends.

My wife keeps saying that I have perfect tonal color ability. I can just see colors and tell if they match perfectly. I’ve even gone as far as purchasing furniture, then buying paint to match by only remembering what the colors looked like when I purchased them (no swatches, no paint samples) and ending up with a perfect match. I recently found out about an online tonal color test so I decided to see just how good I am.

Here’s the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test from x-rite that you can take online.

And my results? A perfect score. I got everyone one right. I guess my wife was right!

One again, no, this has nothing to do with the adorable little dogs known as Pugs. This is the Pictage User Group. Tonight I’m headed up to the Boston Pug for sort of a round table discussion that I will be a part of. Tonight meeting is about a couple, Beth and Alastair, who went looking for their wedding photographer. They met with (if I remember correctly) 9 photographers! They are going to tell us about the good and the bad of what they saw, and what could have been done by photographers to make their experiences better. This should be a great topic of discussion!